Marianne

“At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thing: how should you live your life?”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“A good book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.”
― Roy Blount Jr.

“WORD SMUGGLERS Yang Huanyi, whose feet were crippled in infancy, stumbled through life until the autumn of the year 2004, when she died just shy of her hundredth birthday. She was the last to know Nushu, the secret language of Chinese women. This female code dated from ancient times. Barred from male language, which they could not write, women founded a clandestine one, out of men’s reach. Fated to be illiterate, they invented an alphabet of symbols that masqueraded as decorations and was indecipherable to the eyes of their masters. Women sketched their words on garments and fans. The hands that embroidered were not free. The symbols were.”
― Eduardo Galeano, Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone

“If you can be heard then you exist.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie var här