Bear Town

Beartown (Fredrik Backman)
- Highlight Loc. 25-26 | Added on Tuesday, April 04, 2017, 09:26 PM
One of the plainest truths about both towns and individuals is that they usually
dont turn into what we tell them to be, but what theyre told they are.
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- Highlight Loc. 64 | Added on Tuesday, April 04, 2017, 09:34 PM
Never trust people who dont have something in their lives that they love beyond
all reason.
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- Highlight Loc. 299 | Added on Wednesday, April 05, 2017, 05:28 PM
Like everything else, irony freezes here.

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- Highlight Loc. 461-62 | Added on Friday, April 07, 2017, 06:14 AM
She learned that you have to be thick-skinned in Beartown. That helps you deal with
both the cold and the insults.
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- Highlight Loc. 519-20 | Added on Friday, April 07, 2017, 05:18 PM
Its easy for a child to fall in love with something if theyre told that they can
be best at it, as long as they want it enough.
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- Highlight Loc. 542 | Added on Friday, April 07, 2017, 05:27 PM
Hockey is a sport that rewards repetition.

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Why does anyone care about hockey? * * * Because it tells stories.

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Hockey is a simple sport: when your desire to win is stronger than your fear of
losing, you have a chance. No one wins when theyre frightened.
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Sports creates complicated men, proud enough to refuse to admit their mistakes, but
humble enough always to put their team first.
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Its only a game. It can only change peoples lives.

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All adults have days when we feel completely drained. When we no longer know quite
what we spend so much time fighting for, when reality and everyday worries
overwhelm us and we wonder how much longer were going to be able to carry on. The
wonderful thing is that we can all live through far more days like that without
breaking than we think. The terrible thing is that we never know exactly how many.
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but life as a teenager seems to have acted like sandpaper on Ana. Shes getting
smoother and smoother, smaller and smaller. * * * Sometimes Maya misses her.
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colleagueKiras best work friend and the antidote to the sickness of boredom:
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One of the plainest truths about both towns and individuals is that they usually
dont turn into what we tell them to be, but what they are told they are. The
teacher has always been told shes too young for this. Too attractive. That they
wont respect her. Those boys have been told that theyre bears, winners, immortal.
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- Bookmark Loc. 1180 | Added on Friday, April 07, 2017, 07:41 PM
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- Highlight Loc. 1644-45 | Added on Sunday, April 09, 2017, 08:01 AM
Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket thats always too small. No matter how
hard you try to cover everyone, theres always someone whos freezing.
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- Highlight Loc. 1682 | Added on Sunday, April 09, 2017, 08:09 AM
People feel pain. And it shrinks their souls.

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- Highlight Loc. 2063 | Added on Sunday, April 09, 2017, 04:50 PM
Anything that grows closely enough to what it loves will eventually share the same
roots.
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- Highlight Loc. 2482-83 | Added on Monday, April 10, 2017, 10:07 PM
but she thinks of him sometimes, and how it must have felt to be so unhappy and not
be able to tell anyone. Its a terrible thing to have to keep a big secret from the
people you love.
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- Highlight Loc. 2666 | Added on Monday, April 10, 2017, 10:27 PM
Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.

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There are thousands of ways to die in Beartown. Especially on the inside.

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That most people dont do what we tell them to. They do what we let them get away
with.
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Words are small things. No one means any harm by them, they keep saying that.
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Words are not small things.

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You can get almost anything to look normal if you make enough comparisons.
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- Highlight Loc. 4007 | Added on Wednesday, April 12, 2017, 10:17 AM
People grow up mercilessly fast.

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- Highlight Loc. 4043-45 | Added on Wednesday, April 12, 2017, 10:30 AM
Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes much easier to
understand and much less terrifying if you divide everything and everyone into
friends and enemies, we and they, good and evil. The easiest way to unite a group
isnt through love, because love is hard. It makes demands. Hate is simple.
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- Highlight Loc. 4342 | Added on Wednesday, April 12, 2017, 08:26 PM
There are damn few things in life that are harder than admitting to yourself that
youre a hypocrite.
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- Highlight Loc. 4736-37 | Added on Wednesday, April 12, 2017, 09:10 PM
The bass player likes that, the fact that Benjis the sort of person who isnt
surprised that someone can be more than one thing.
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- Highlight Loc. 5206-8 | Added on Thursday, April 13, 2017, 09:48 PM
I dont need a man to pay my bills, and I dont need a man to tell me what I can
think and feel and believe. I only need one man: my son. And youre not alone.
Youve never been alone. You just need to be better at choosing the company you
keep.
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- Highlight Loc. 5220-21 | Added on Thursday, April 13, 2017, 09:50 PM
himits always easier to lecture other people about morality when youve never had
to answer for anything yourself.
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- Highlight Loc. 5630-32 | Added on Friday, April 14, 2017, 08:29 AM
Another morning comes. It always does. Time always moves at the same rate, only
feelings have different speeds. Every day can mark a whole lifetime or a single
heartbeat, depending on who you spend it with.
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Big secrets make small men of us, especially when were the men others have to keep
secrets from.
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Beartown (Fredrik Backman)

- Highlight Loc. 25-26 | Added on Tuesday, April 04, 2017, 09:26 PM

Like everything else, irony freezes here.

Hockey is a sport that rewards repetition.

Why does anyone care about hockey? * * * Because it tells stories.

Its only a game. It can only change peoples lives.

People feel pain. And it shrinks their souls.

Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.

There are thousands of ways to die in Beartown. Especially on the inside.

Words are not small things.

People grow up mercilessly fast.

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