Hello. I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader and quotes collector. Here is a list of 46 quotes that I liked and saved while reading Beartown book by Fredrik Backman. I hope you enjoy reading them.
Beartown Quotes
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.
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The love a parent feels for a child is strange. there is a starting point to our love for everyone else, but not this person. this one we have always loved, we loved them before they even existed.
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Never trust people who don’t have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason.
from Beartown book by Fredrik Backman
You never have the sort of friends you have when you’re fifteen ever again. Even if you keep them for the rest of your life, it’s never the same as it was then.
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You have to be thick-skinned in Beartown. That helps you deal with both the cold and the insults.
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There are two things that are particularly good at reminding us how old we are: children and sports.
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We love winners, even though they’re very rarely particularly likeable people. They’re almost always obsessive and selfish and inconsiderate. That doesn’t matter. We forgive them. We like them while they’re winning.
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One of the hardest things about getting old is admitting mistakes that it’s too late to put right.
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The worst thing about having power over other people’s lives is that you sometimes get things wrong.
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Talent is like letting two balloons up into the air: the most interesting thing isn’t watching which one climbs fastest, but which one has the longest string.
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Sports creates complicated men, proud enough to refuse to admit their mistakes, but humble enough always to put their team first.
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All adults have days when we feel completely drained. When we no longer know quite what we spend so much time fighting for, when reality and everyday worries overwhelm us and we wonder how much longer we’re going to be able to carry on. The wonderful thing is that we can all live through far more days like that without breaking than we think. The terrible thing is that we never know exactly how many.
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Say what you like about Beartown, it can take your breath away. When the sun rises above the lake, when the mornings are so cold that the oxygen itself is crisp, when the trees seem to bow respectfully over the ice in order to let as much light as possible reach the children playing on it, then you can’t help wondering how anyone could choose to live in places where all you can see are concrete and buildings.
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One of the plainest truths about both towns and individuals is that they usually don’t turn into what we tell them to be, but what they are told they are.
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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.
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A long marriage is complicated. So complicated, in fact, that most people in one sometimes ask themselves: “Am I still married because I’m in love, or just because I can’t be bothered to let anyone else get to know me this well again?”.
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At a certain point in a person’s life you either sink or swim, and nothing really matters anymore.
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That’s always the way with sons of fathers who liked whisky a little too much: you either drink it all the time or not at all. There’s no in-between in some families.
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Success is never a coincidence. Luck can give you money, but never success.
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All adults occasionally wonder about another life, one they could be living instead of the one they’ve got. How often they do so probably depends on how happy they are.
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Religion is something between you and other people; it’s full of interpretations and theories and opinions. But faith … that’s just between you and God.
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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.
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It doesn’t take a lot to be able to let go of your child. It takes everything.
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For the perpetrator, rape lasts just a matter of minutes. For the victim, it never stops.
from Beartown book by Fredrik Backman
Even in a town that’s covered with snow three-quarters of the year, it’s unbearably cold standing in the shade of someone who’s a bit more popular than you are.
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Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.
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A great deal is expected of anyone who’s been given a lot.
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Culture is as much about what we encourage as what we actually permit.
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Most people don’t do what we tell them to. They do what we let them get away with.
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What is it with men? Have they got a different density from women, or what? How come anyone with a dick always rises to the top of every single organization?
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What an uncomfortable, terrible source of shame it is for the world that the victim is so often the one left with the most empathy for others.
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If there’s one thing teenagers know the price of, it’s all the things they can’t afford.
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Violence is like whisky: children in homes that have too much of it grow up either full of it, or entirely without it.
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People who think they’re good coaches never are.
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One of the first things you learn as a leader, whether you choose the position or have it forced upon you, is that leadership is as much about what you don’t say as what you do say.
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Ignore everything else, just concentrate on the things you can change.
from Beartown book by Fredrik Backman
We’re bad losers, because a good loser is someone who loses a lot.
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There are damn few things in life that are harder than admitting to yourself that you’re a hypocrite.
from Beartown book by Fredrik Backman
An entrepreneur who isn’t moving isn’t actually standing still, he’s going backward.
from Beartown book by Fredrik Backman
The people around a bullied child assume that he or she must get used to it after a while. Never. You never get used to it. It burns like fire the whole time. It’s just that no one knows how long the fuse is, not even you.
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The problem with this town is not only that a boy raped a girl, but that everyone is pretending that he DIDN’T do it.
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The only way to stop being afraid of the darkness out there is to find a darkness inside yourself that’s bigger.
from Beartown book by Fredrik Backman
The only thing that might be worse than being accused of rape is being raped.
from Beartown book by Fredrik Backman
Fighting isn’t hard. it’s the starting and stopping that are hard. once you’re actually fighting, it happens more or less instinctively. the complicated thing about fighting is daring to throw the first punch, and then, once you’ve won, refraining from throwing that very last one.
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Time always moves at the same rate, only feelings have different speeds. every day can mark a whole lifetime or a single heartbeat, depending on who you spend it with.
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Homosexuality is a weapon of mass destruction, remember that. it’s not natural. if everyone turns gay, mankind will be wiped out in a generation.
from Beartown book by Fredrik Backman