Beartown Quotes

#1. A young man left Beartown in silence and when he came home again it was too late for words. You can't look a gravestone in the eye and ask its forgiveness.

Fredrik Backman

#2. So she bowed her head and devoted herself to Beartown's real traditional sports: shame and silence.

Fredrik Backman

#3. Bears shit in the woods, and everyone shits on Beartown

Fredrik Backman

#4. they don't want a modern Beartown, because they know that a modern Beartown won't want them. Ramona

Fredrik Backman

#5. You never want to get away from home as much as you do when you're fifteen years old. It's like her mom usually says when the cold and darkness have worn away at her patience and she's had three or four glasses of wine :"you can't live in this town,maya,you can only survive it.

Fredrik Backman

#6. I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered.

William Shakespeare

#7. To be honest, the play that was drawn up, I scratched it. I just told coach, 'Give me the ball.' We're either going to go to overtime or I'm going to win it for us. It was that simple.

LeBron James

#8. 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.

Fredrik Backman

#9. It is possible with pure willpower to force the kundalini up the shushumna, through the chakras. You will develop visions of other worlds that will not necessarily stop when you want them to. This is a condition we call insanity.

Frederick Lenz

#10. I think there is more pressure at trials when you are trying to make the team and you have to come first or second, and you have to go under qualifying time.

Stephanie Rice

#11. all around an illusive reality promises dreams, just as it deviously robs us of moments to give us back only memories!

Marianthi Devaki

#12. Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#13. I'm against the idea that rock stars have to live a life that's completely understandable or predictable to their audience ... Maybe I'll just be the mysterious figure that'll never be able to truly be defined. Maybe that's what my thing is.

Debbie Harry

#14. 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.

Fredrik Backman

#15. I shall seeThe hour of death draw near to me,Hope, blossoming within my heart ...

William C. Bryant

#16. Even with multiple instruction books, maneuvering the maze of the tax code is costly and time-consuming.

Mike Crapo