Britt Marie Quotes

#1. When she realizes that they are about to fall, she summons the strength to stand on her own two feet. Because that is what women like Britt-Marie do. They find the strength when they have to do something for others.

Fredrik Backman

#2. Granny always said Britt-Marie was the sort of woman who would have to drink two glasses of wine and feel really wild and crazy to be able to fantasize about solving a crossword in ink.

Fredrik Backman

#3. Britt-Marie feels Fredrik's hateful stare at her back as she and Vega follow her down the corridor, so she slows and walks behind Vega, to stop his stares hitting the girl.

Fredrik Backman

#4. Britt-Marie is convinced she's about to have a hear attack, but when she explains this to Bank, Bank says, 'That's how it's meant to be when you're watching soccer.

Fredrik Backman

#5. But how is it your team if you don't play in it?" The boy thinks this over for a moment. Then he seems to take a firm grip on the ball. "We've supported this team for longer than most of the players in it. So it's more our team than theirs." "Preposterous," snorts Britt-Marie. In

Fredrik Backman

#6. And then Mum spoons the coffee a little as if she's having fantasies of flinging it in Britt-Marie's face. But in a controlled way.

Fredrik Backman

#7. Soccer is a curious game, because it doesn't ask to be loved. It demands it. Britt-Marie

Fredrik Backman

#8. My mother worked for the social services all her life. She always said that in the middle of all the crap, in the thick of it all, you always had a sunny story turning up. Which makes it all worthwhile.' The next words that come are smiling. 'You're my sunny story, Britt-Marie.

Fredrik Backman

#9. Or that time she made a snowman in Britt-Marie and Kent's garden right under their balcony and dressed it up in grown-up clothes so it looked as if a person had fallen from the roof.

Fredrik Backman

#10. Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking - I can at least provide a way station.

Peter Coyote

#11. Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.

Gerry Schwartz

#12. When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

Ragnar Galt

#13. Certainly when you're dealing with more deep emotional work and sensory work, for me it helps me to just stay in it.

Matt Bomer

#14. It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

Douglas R. Hofstadter

#15. Still, they were two thorns from the same thistle. Their tactics in terrorizing innocent ladies were identical. Their behavior was downright sinful, but what made it even worse was the fact that neither warrior seemed to realize the effect he had on others.

Julie Garwood

#16. She's like a letter from the tax authorities, that old biddy, Granny used to say.

Fredrik Backman