"Anxious People" Quotes
"Anxious People" by Fredrik Backman is a poignant and humorous exploration of human connection and empathy that unfolds during a failed bank robbery turned hostage situation in an apartment viewing.
fiction | 341 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
It's strange how quickly you get used to being happy.
Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that's always too small. No matter how hard you try to cover everyone, there's always someone who's freezing.
Anyone can nurture a myth about their life if they have enough manure, so if the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, that's probably because it's full of shit.
People in this world are a lot like those in the next. Just more so.
It's a common truth that the more people talk, the more they lie. This goes for men and women, young and old. People are just people. They say one thing and mean another, they lie, they mislead, they manipulate. They tell the truth, too.
There's a big difference between surviving and finding meaning in your survival.
Love is a little like those clouds up there. It's a gorgeous thing when it's perfect, but when it goes wrong, it can turn into something dark and ugly.
The truth of the matter is that everyone is going to get through this, and that in itself is the reason to try not to be an asshole.
The only way to deal with death is to transform everything that precedes it into life.
Every time you deal with other people, it's a psychological experiment. You're always watching and learning, and sometimes you feel like a complete failure, but that's part of the process, too.
