Anxious People
I read this beautiful book by Fredrick Backman this year. I loved the quirky cast of characters and the story (and how the characters interacted - especially what they all needed and how they hid themselves from each other) gave me a lot to think about even after the story ended.
Here are some of my favorite quotes from the book made into coloring pages - each is free to print and color and enjoy. GET THE BOOK HERE
The truth? The truth about all this? The truth is that this was a story about many different things, but most of all about idiots.
- Fredrick Backman, Anxious People
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One of the most human things about anxiety is that we try to cure chaos with chaos. Someone who has got themselves into a catastrophic situation rarely retreats from it, we’re far more inclined to carry on even faster. We’ve created lives where we can watch other people crash into the wall but still hope that somehow we’re going to pass straight through it. The closer we get, the more confidently we believe that some unlikely solution is miraculously going to save us, while everyone watching us is just waiting for the crash.
- Fredrick Backman, Anxious People
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When you’re a child you long to be an adult and decide everything for yourself, but when you’re an adult you realize that’s the worst part of it.
- Fredrick Backman, Anxious People
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“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” - Martin Luther
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We can’t change the world, and a lot of the time we can’t even change people. No more than one bit at a time. So we do what we can to help whenever we get the chance, sweetheart. We save those we can. We do our best. Then we try to find a way to convince ourselves that that will just have to . . . be enough. So we can live with our failures without drowning.
- Fredrick Backman, Anxious People
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“Who did she used to cause trouble with?”
“Everyone. The church, the parish, politicians, people who believed in God, people who didn’t believe in God . . . she made it her job to defend the weakest: the homeless, migrants, even criminals. Because somewhere in the Bible Jesus says something like: ‘I was hungry and you gave me food, I was homeless and you looked after me, I was sick and you cared for me, I was in prison and you visited me.’ And then He says something like, what we do for the weakest among us, we also do for Him. And she took everything so damn literally, my wife. That’s why she kept causing trouble.”
- Fredrick Backman, Anxious People
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Hey! Hope you love these! you might also love some of my other free pages based on books! OR visit my “BASED ON BOOKS” section to see them all
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