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.
- from Beartown book by Fredrik Backman
You want to be a hockey coach? Get used to not having the things other people have. Free time, a family life, decent coffee. Only the toughest of men can handle this sport. Men who can drink terrible coffee cold, if need be.
- from Beartown book by Fredrik Backman
Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.
- from Beartown book by Fredrik Backman
For the perpetrator, rape lasts just a matter of minutes. For the victim, it never stops.
- from Beartown book by Fredrik Backman
There are two things that are particularly good at reminding us how old we are: children and sports.
- from Beartown book by Fredrik Backman