A heartwarming story where not everything needs to be okay.
I really enjoyed this book. It's more of a 4.5 for me, as I'm not sure I'd need to read it again, but it left me with some warm and fuzzies inside, and that's nice to have every once in a while.
I cared about each of the characters and the Backman gives enough (albeit) little layers to each of them that makes the characters all special.
It was an easy read. I wanted to find out more at the end of each chapter. And it left me with a warm feeling in the end.
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We tried keeping tropical fish once and they all died. And we really don't know more about children than tropical fish, so the responsibility frightens the life out of us each morning.
'She said I'm overprotective. That I'm one of those penguins that squats on top of a stone because I don't want to accept that the egg has gone. She said you can't protect your kids from life, because life gets us all in the end.'
We give those we love nicknames, because love requires a word that belongs to us alone.
The following morning they were angry at the sun for rising, and couldn't forgive the world for living on without her.
But that isn't actually the case. The majority of people who want to stop medication say they want to be able to cry again.
Estelle gently patted Julia's hair. 'Your child's going to be absolutely fine, you'll see. And absolutely fine can cover any number of peculiarities.'
humour is the soul's last line of defence, and as long as we're laughing we're alive, so bad puns and fart jokes were their way of expressing their defiance against despair.
That his heart hasn't got used to the fact that no giggling idiot is going to stick her finger in his mouth when he yawns,
You saved yourself. He just happened to be there.