Beartown Quotes & Sayings

A simple truth, repeated as often as it is ignored, is that if you tell a child it can do absolutely anything, or that it can't do anything at all, you will in all likelihood be proven right. — Fredrik Backman

As in combat, the key to this game was to get inside your opponent's decision cycle, making him react to what you were doing, rather than the reverse. — Richard Phillips

The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the supreme and all-perfect Mind, over all his intellectual creation, is by proportioning rewards to piety and virtue, and punishments to disobedience and vice ... The joys of heaven are prepared, and the horrors of hell in a future state, to render the moral government of the universe perfect and complete. Human government is more or less perfect, as it approaches nearer or diverges further from an imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government. — John Adams

Please, Master, I can't endure this," I said. "Then, how will you endure eternity, my child? Don't you know that's what I mean to give you? What power under God is there that can break me? — Anne Rice

The necessary condition for an image is sight, — Roland Barthes

A young man left Beartown in silence and when he came home again it was too late for words. You can't look a gravestone in the eye and ask its forgiveness. — Fredrik Backman

I've always written stuff based on personal experience, but I've always disguised it by the use of characters. — Sune Rose Wagner

And then I recalled those mysterious stories about the waxworkers of the middle ages and the public reprobation attached to their trade. Did they not live in cellars, in the eternal twilight propitious for enchantments and apparitions? Their visionary art (who, more than they, evoked a truer image of life?) was closely related to that of magicians: bewitchments were carried out with wax figures, witch trials are full of them, and one particular legend haunted me above all, that of the modeler from Anspach, who slowly squeezed the soul and the life out of his model in order to animate his painted waxwork and then, having finished his work of art, awaited nightfall to go and bury the corpse in the ditch at the city walls. — Jean Lorrain

they don't want a modern Beartown, because they know that a modern Beartown won't want them. Ramona — Fredrik Backman

Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure. — Angela Carter

You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and I will not be a professional victim, you know. Sorry! — John Lydon

So she bowed her head and devoted herself to Beartown's real traditional sports: shame and silence. — Fredrik Backman

The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing. — Alanis Morissette

Bitterness can be corrosive. It can rewrite your memories as if it were scrubbing a crime scene clean, until in the end you only remember what suits you of its causes. — Fredrik Backman

at the WI Markets,' I said regretfully. — Trisha Ashley

Bears shit in the woods, and everyone shits on Beartown — Fredrik Backman

You never want to get away from home as much as you do when you're fifteen years old. It's like her mom usually says when the cold and darkness have worn away at her patience and she's had three or four glasses of wine :"you can't live in this town,maya,you can only survive it. — Fredrik Backman

Rat-a-tat-tat."
"Quack." — Kate Angell