A review by kithenrietta
Us Against You by Fredrik Backman

4.5

Quotes

“Anyone who feels responsibility isn’t free.”

“Exclusion is a form of exhaustion that eats its way into your skeleton.”

“You may not control everything your boys do, but you know damn well that none of them would do anything if you’d have expressly forbidden it.”

“Children are the only people who don’t have to take responsibility for anyone but themselves. The rest of us have to take responsibility for the things we cause to happen. You’re a leader. People follow you. So frankly, if you can’t take responsibility for the actions of your followers, that makes you nothing but a monster.”

“The path back to normal life is indescribably long once death has swept the feet out from under us who are left. Grief is a wild animal that drags us so far out into the darkness that we can’t imagine ever getting home again. Ever laughing again. It hurts in such a way that you can never really figure out if it actually passes, or if you just get used to it.”