Hello. Here is a list of 44 quotes that I liked and saved while reading Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman. I hope you will like them too. By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
Us Against You Quotes
- Sometimes hating one another is so easy that it seems incomprehensible that we ever do anything else. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- What does it take to be a good parent? Not much. Just everything. Absolutely everything. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- People will always choose a simple lie over a complicated truth, because the lie has one unbeatable advantage: the truth always has to stick to what actually happened, whereas the lie just has to be easy to believe. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- Many of our worst deeds are the result of our never wanting to admit that we’re wrong. The greater the mistake and the worse the consequences, the more pride we stand to lose if we back down. So no one does. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- Sports are only sports until someone who doesn’t give a damn about sports has something to gain from them; then sports suddenly become economics. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- Either you’re the best or you’re everyone else, and the best don’t make excuses, they find a way to win. With all available means, at any cost. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- When a child gets a best friend, it’s like a first infatuation; we want to be with them all the time, and if they leave us it’s like an amputation. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- Some people are just like that. If there isn’t a war, they start one. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- Beartown isn’t an easy place to grow up in if you’re different, and one of the worst things about becoming an adult is starting to realize that perhaps nowhere is. There are bastards everywhere. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- You don’t get to be best at a sport by being logical. You have to be a dreamer. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- The best friends of our childhoods are the loves of our lives, and they break our hearts in worse ways. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- Life is so damn, damn, damn tough sometimes that it’s almost unbearable. Even if that’s the way it’s supposed to be. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- Parents who divorce, can stop a child believing in eternal love. Parents who stick together for a lifetime can make a child take it for granted instead. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- You’re only an opportunist until you win, then you’re the establishment. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- Grief is the price we pay for love. A broken heart in exchange for a whole one. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- Hockey’s a simple game. If you strip away all the crap around it, the stands and the crowd and the rankings and the money, it’s simple. Everyone gets a stick, there are two nets and two teams. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- Politics is an endless series of negotiations and compromises, and even if the processes are often complicated, the foundations are always simple: everyone wants to be paid, one way or another. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- There’s a loser in every relationship. We may not like to admit it, but one of us always gets a little more and one of us always gives up a little more readily. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- If you live with the same person for long enough, you often discover that although you may have had a hundred conflicts at the start of the relationship, in the end you have only one. You keep slipping into the same argument, albeit in different guises. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- Some children never quite manage to escape their parents; they’re guided by their compass, see through their eyes. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- When terrible things happen, most people become waves, but some people become rocks. Waves are tossed back and forth when the wind comes, but the rocks just take a beating, immovable, waiting for the storm to blow over. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- Power is the ability to get other people to do what you want. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- A leader can carry on leading only as long as someone follows him, and people’s reactions to leadership are always the same: if a decision of yours benefits me, you’re fair, and if the same decision harms me, you’re a tyrant. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- The truth about most people is as simple as it is unbearable: we rarely want what is best for everyone; we mostly want what’s best for ourselves. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- Leadership is a matter of manipulating emotions to achieve results. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- Being a mother can be like drying out the foundations of a house or mending a roof: it takes time, sweat, and money, and once it’s done everything looks exactly the same as it did before. It’s not the sort of thing anyone gives you praise for. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- When guys are scared of the dark, they’re scared of ghosts and monsters, but when girls are scared of the dark, they’re scared of guys. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- Don’t let the bastards tell you what to be, go your own way, dance badly and sing loudly and become the best! – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- We rarely take out our anger on those who deserve it; we just take it out on whoever is standing closest. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- Never lose control! Never let your feeling grab the wheel. Because that’s when you do really stupid things! – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- You can always be absolutely certain of one thing when it comes to power: no one who gets their hands on it ever lets go of it voluntarily. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- It’s said that a person’s first thought is the most honest, but that often isn’t true. It’s often just the most stupid. Why else would we have afterthoughts?. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- Unfairness is a far more natural state in the world than fairness. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- Children are the only people who don’t have to take responsibility for anyone but themselves. The rest of us have to take responsibility for the things we cause to happen. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- At some point almost everyone makes a choice. Some of us don’t even notice it happening, most don’t get to plan it in advance, but there’s always a moment when we take one path instead of another that has consequences for the rest of our lives. It determines the people we will become, in other people’s eyes as well as our own. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- The people who shout the loudest may be the most noticeable. But they’re not the majority. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- In Beartown we bury our dead under our most beautiful trees. We grieve silently, we talk quietly, and we often seem to find it easier to do something rather than say something. Perhaps because there are both good and bad people living here, and that makes us complicated, because it isn’t always so damn easy to see the difference. Sometimes we’re both at the same time. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- The complicated thing about good and bad people alike is that most of us can be both at the same time. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- Communities are like ice, not water. They don’t suddenly flow in new directions because you ask them to, they change inch by inch, like glaciers. Sometimes they don’t move at all. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- People in Beartown have never been the sort to demonstrate on the streets. They don’t go on marches, their opinions are conveyed by other means. That can be hard for outsiders to understand, but very little happens by chance in this community. Even if something looks like a coincidence, it usually isn’t. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- If they hate you, you’re doing something right! You’re the best! They’d never hate you this much if you weren’t best! – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- Life is a weird thing. We spend all our time trying to manage different aspects of it, yet we are still largely shaped by things that happen beyond our control. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- Sometimes good people do bad things out of good intentions, and sometimes the reverse happens. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
- Politics and hockey. They should never come anywhere near each other. – Quote from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman