One of the most human things about anxiety is that we try to cure chaos with chaos.

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Boats that stay in the harbor are safe, but that’s not what boats were built for.

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You don’t have to like all children. Just one. And children don’t need the world’s beat parents, just their own parents.

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Addicts are addicted to their drugs, and their families are addicted to hope.

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I think you can understand someone without necessarily agreeing with them. #FredrikBackman #AnxiousPeople #AnxiousPeople byFredrikBackman

The following morning they were angry at the sun for rising, and couldn’t forgive the world for living on without her.

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A man wants to be looked in the eye and told the truth when he’s no loner needed. #FredrikBackman #AnxiousPeople #AnxiousPeople byFredrikBackman

You have to live your life in such a way that you become friends with death.

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Loneliness is like starvation, you don’t realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.

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…if you do it for long enough, it can become impossible to tell the difference between flying and falling.

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We save those we can. We do our best. Then we try to find a way to convince ourselves that that will just have to be… enough. So we can live with our failures without drowning.

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Jim aged badly after she died, became a lesser man, never quite able to breathe back in all the air that had gone out of him.

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People don't want to buy a picture, they want to buy a frame. #FredrikBackman #AnxiousPeople

When you’re a child you long to be an adult and decide everything for yourself, but when you’re an adult you realize that’s the worst part of it. #FredrikBackman #AnxiousPeople #AnxiousPeople byFredrikBackman

You can always tell by the way people who love each other argue: the longer they've been together, the fewer words they need to start a fight. #FredrikBackman #AnxiousPeople #AnxiousPeople byFredrikBackman

I just published Echoes of Triumph: Unveiling the Enchantment of ‘The Winners’ by Fredrik Backman link.medium.com/CCrwDZrdJIb #FantasyLiterature #EpicAdventure #FredrikBackman

Can you imagine what a bad parent you must have been for your children not to want to be parents? #FredrikBackman #AnxiousPeople #AnxiousPeople byFredrikBackman

You end up marrying the one you don’t understand, then you spend the rest of your life trying.

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I love being boring with her. I love arguing with her about sofas and pets. She’s my everyday. The whole…world.

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You don’t want to let people get close to you. It makes you feel weak.

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