21 My Friends Fredrik Backman Quotes about Friendship, Life and Art
My Friends by Fredrik Backman is a beautiful, tender and painful (yes, beautiful, yet mostly painful) story about friendship and art. It’s also about beautiful memories and stories of childhood.
It’s a book that makes you laugh while crying and cry while laughing. Quite devastating – in all the right ways.
And this article lists the most powerful quotes from My Friends.
Let’s dive in.
1) Louisa is a genius, but sometimes she isn't a genius, and the problem is that the genius and the non-genius share a brain.
2) Rich people are the worst sort of adults, and the worst way to vandalize art is actually to put a damn price tag on it.
3) Adults always think they can protect children by stopping them from going to dangerous places, but every teenager knows that's pointless, because the most dangerous place on earth is inside us.
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4) Grown men don't have enough things they're afraid of on this planet to become good at running.
5) When you're about to turn fifteen, that's the age when friendship is like joining the mafia: you can't leave it, you know too much.
6) He was good at seeing the beauty in everything, that happens if you're no good at seeing it in yourself.
7) We're a bunch of lonely apes on a rock in the universe, our breath consists of eighty percent nitrogen, twenty percent oxygen, and one hundred percent anxiety.
8) Imagination is the only thing that stops us from thinking about death every second.
9) Art is so big, so unfathomable,that it teaches us to mourn for strangers.
10) The very hardest thing to understand about death: nothing.
11) He blinks his way back to reality, glances at Louisa, and thinks about what the artist had called her: one of us.
12) Adults often think that self-confidence is something a child learns, but little kids are by their nature always invincible, it's self-doubt that needs to be taught.
13) The artist was an observer, he couldn't bear to be observed, the world always gets those mixed up.
14) 25 years later, he still wishes that he was 14 years old, and that the world was full of broken clocks.
15) Ted loves adventures, he just absolutely doesn't want to participate in them.
16) You're an artist if you create something! You're an artist if you don't see the world the way it is, if you hate white walls!
17) One day he would go to a fancy art school and realize that he had already made up everything they taught there, only backward. His brain wasn't normal, one day the world would be grateful for that.
18) It's a long life, but fast, one single step in the right direction can be enough.
19) "Do you know what the biggest threat to women's health is?" "Men," Louisa says, because all women know that.
20) She said people like her and me couldn't be with each other, because you can't both be broken and crazy.
21) The worst thing about death is that it happens over and over again. That the human body can cry forever.
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