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The worst thing about having power over other people's lives is that you sometimes get things wrong.

The worst thing about having power over other people’s lives is that you sometimes get things wrong.
– Fredrik Backman

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  1. 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
  2. Never trust people who don’t have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason. – Fredrik Backman
  3. When it comes to terror, reality’s got nothing on the power of the imagination[.] – Fredrik Backman
  4. Just because you don’t like peanut ????er doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t like . . . peanuts. – Fredrik Backman
  5. Only a swine thinks size and strenght are the same thing. – Fredrik Backman
  6. What is a community? It is the sum total of our choices. – Fredrik Backman
  7. There’s something quite special about a granny’s house. Even if ten or twenty or thirty years go by, you never forget how it smells. – Fredrik Backman
  8. You’re the funniest thing she knows. That’s why she always draws you in color. – Fredrik Backman
  9. He was never able to properly explain what happened to him that day. But he stopped being happy. – Fredrik Backman
  10. You should choose your battles if you can, but if the battle chooses you then kick the sod in his fuse box! – Fredrik Backman
  11. It’s going to be a grand adventure and a fairy tale of marvels. But it’s my fault that you’ll find a dragon at the end, my darling knight. – Fredrik Backman
  12. Further to this, Ove has the cat’s resentful stares to contend with. Something in its eyes reminds him of the way Sonja used to look at him. – Fredrik Backman
  13. … not all monsters look like monsters. There are some that carry their monstrosity inside. – Fredrik Backman
  14. Because when you love someone very much, it’s difficult to learn to share her with someone else. – Fredrik Backman
  15. It’s possible to love your grandmother for years and years without really knowing anything about her. – Fredrik Backman
  16. People can turn into idiots if they’re alone for long enough. (Mum) – Fredrik Backman
  17. Just everything else, Mum. I just have everything else from you. – Fredrik Backman
  18. People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had. – Fredrik Backman
  19. Men are what they are because of what they do, not what they say. – Fredrik Backman
  20. Not having enough talent seemed almost worse than not having any, because having a little meant having just enough to know what you lacked – Kat Howard
  21. Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices feels the least wrong. – Colleen Hoover
  22. You have immense power–power to overcome, power to achieve, power to possess, and power to prosper, making you incredibly irresistible. – Anitra SheltonQuinn
  23. Being forgiven is like having all the worst bits of yourself stuffed into a balloon and then having that balloon set free. – Shannon Wiersbitzky
  24. Having a hearing is educational. Having a hearing with television cameras is useful. Having a hearing with two rows of television cameras is Heaven. – Tim Wirth
  25. It’s not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. – John Green
  26. Right time, right place, right people equals success.Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history. – Idries Shah
  27. There is no wrong answer. Even so, it is easy to receive wrong results, simply by asking the wrong question. – Brunonia Barry
  28. Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. – Mark Twain
  29. The fact that good people can be forced to do wrong doesn’t make them less good. But it also doesn’t make the wrong less wrong. – Ovadya ben Malka
  30. I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side. – GK Chesterton
  31. you may be wrong to be right in the wrong direction, but, what is the wrong direction? – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  32. It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on murder must be killed! – Charles Nodier
  33. On the matters where your country is wrong, don’t take side with your country! Because it is always wrong to be on the side of wrong! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  34. On the matters where your country is wrong, don’t take side with your country! Because it is always wrong to be on the side of wrong! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  35. Fear least have power! The power of fear lies in the power of our fears. Without the power of our fears, fear is least empowered! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  36. The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy. – Thomas S Monson
  37. Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless. – Ellen Hopkins
  38. A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. – George RR Martin
  39. We love music deeply, but why? Put simply: music makes lives, shapes lives, expresses all shades and stages of life – and even saves lives. – Rasheed Ogunlaru
  40. A writer creates many lives, changes lives, and with that lives forever. – Jen Golembiewski

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