Hello. I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader and quotes collector. Here is a list of 43 quotes that I liked and saved while reading Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman. I hope you enjoy reading them.
Us Against You Quotes
What does it take to be a good parent? Not much. Just everything. Absolutely everything.
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Life is so damn, damn, damn tough sometimes that it’s almost unbearable. Even if that’s the way it’s supposed to be.
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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.
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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.
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Leadership is a matter of manipulating emotions to achieve results.
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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.
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Some people are just like that. If there isn’t a war, they start one.
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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.
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Grief is the price we pay for love. A broken heart in exchange for a whole one.
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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.
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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.
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Some children never quite manage to escape their parents; they’re guided by their compass, see through their eyes.
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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.
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Power is the ability to get other people to do what you want.
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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.
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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.
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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?.
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Unfairness is a far more natural state in the world than fairness.
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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.
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The complicated thing about good and bad people alike is that most of us can be both at the same time.
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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!.
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Sometimes hating one another is so easy that it seems incomprehensible that we ever do anything else.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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You don’t get to be best at a sport by being logical. You have to be a dreamer.
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The best friends of our childhoods are the loves of our lives, and they break our hearts in worse ways.
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You’re only an opportunist until you win, then you’re the establishment.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Don’t let the bastards tell you what to be, go your own way, dance badly and sing loudly and become the best!.
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We rarely take out our anger on those who deserve it; we just take it out on whoever is standing closest.
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Never lose control! Never let your feeling grab the wheel. Because that’s when you do really stupid things!.
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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.
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The people who shout the loudest may be the most noticeable. But they’re not the majority.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Politics and hockey. They should never come anywhere near each other.
from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman