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Grief is a luxury for those living an easier life.
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Topic: Relationships
Disappointment is a powerful thing. Used correctly, it is stronger than fear, more terrible than physical pain, if you see it in the eyes of the one you love, you'll do almost anything to make it stop.
From My Friends
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Topic: Relationships
The planet knows no greater silence than two dozen hearts after a loss.
From Beartown
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Topic: Sports
That tendency exists in all sports: parents always think their own expertise increases automatically as their child gets better at something.
From Beartown
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Topic: Sports
Soccer forces life to move on. There’s always a new match. A new season. There’s always a dream that everything can get better. It’s a game of wonders.
From Britt-Marie var här
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Topic: Sports
There's an old saying in Hed: "Tell a stranger you hate Beartown and you'll have a friend for life." The smallest child in Hed is quick to learn that it's important for Hed Hockey to do well, but that it's even more important that things go really badly for Beartown. Partly in jest, obviously. The stands are full of screamed threats about "hating" and "killing" each other, but of course they aren't serious. Until all of a sudden they are.
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Topic: Sports
Winners have a tendency to be forgiven in this town.
From Beartown
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Topic: Sports
A time like that comes for every man, when he chooses what sort of man he wants to be. And if you don't know the story, you don't know the man.
From A Man Called Ove
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Topic: Inspirational
That's the power of literature, you know, it can act like little love letters between two people who can only explain their feelings by pointing at other people's.
From Anxious People
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Topic: Relationships
What can the sport give us? We devote our whole lives to it, and what can we hope to get, at best? A few moments... a few victories, a few seconds when we feel bigger than we really are, a few isolated opportunities to imagine that we're... immortal. And it's a lie. It really isn't important.
From Beartown
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Topic: Sports
Something inside a man goes to pieces when he has to bury the only person who ever understood him. There is no time to heal that sort of wound.
From A Man Called Ove
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Topic: Death
Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.
From Beartown
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Topic: Inspirational
This has been a story about ice rinks and all the hearts that beat in and around them. About people and sports and how they sometimes take it in turns to carry each other. About us, dreaming and fighting.
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Topic: Sports
This book is dedicated to the voices inside my head, the most remarkable of my friends.
And to my wife, who lives with us.
From Anxious People
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Topic: Funny
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?
From Britt-Marie Was Here
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Topic: Funny
It takes the boy an hour to half crawl, half stagger to the locker room. It's empty. The heating has been switched off. His shoes have been shredded and his clothes are lying soaking wet on the floor of the shower. It's the best day of his life.
From Beartown
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Topic: Sports
She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life.
From A Man Called Ove
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Topic: Life
The only thing the sport gives us are moments.
From Beartown
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Topic: Sports
One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it’s happened.
From Britt-Marie var här
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Topic: Funny, Philosophical
Those of us who love sports don't always love sportsmen and women. Our love for them is conditional on them being on our side, playing on our team, competing in our colors. We can admire an opponent but we never love them, not the way we love the ones who represent us, because when ours win, it feels like we win too. They become symbols of everything we ourselves want to be.
From The Winners
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Topic: Sports
It's only a hockey game. An ice rink packed with people, two locker rooms full of players, two teams facing each other. Two men in a basement. Why do we care about that sort of thing?

Perhaps because it clarifies all of our most difficult questions. What makes us shout out loud with joy? What makes us cry? What are our happiest memories, our worst days, our deepest disappointments? Who did we stand alongside? What's a family? What's a team?

How many times in life are we completely happy?

How many chances do we get to love something that's almost pointless entirely unconditionally?
From Us Against You
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Topic: Sports
Children aren't responsible for their parents' happiness, but they still try.
From My Friends
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Topic: Happiness
Hockey isn't the past, it isn't yesterday, it's always next. The next line change, the next game, the next season, the next generation, the next magical moment when something we didn't think was possible becomes a miracle. The next chance to fly up from your seat and yell with joy. Next.
From The Winners
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Topic: Sports
I just mean ... damn ... this might sound a bit crazy, but sometimes you can't help wondering if we don't take all this a bit too seriously. If we aren't putting too much pressure on the juniors. They're not really much more than ... kids."

...

"That depends what we want from the kids. And what the kids want from hockey.
From Beartown
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Topic: Sports
Grief is a luxury for those living an easier life.
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Topic: Relationships
Disappointment is a powerful thing. Used correctly, it is stronger than fear, more terrible than physical pain, if you see it in the eyes of the one you love, you'll do almost anything to make it stop.
From My Friends
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Topic: Relationships
The planet knows no greater silence than two dozen hearts after a loss.
From Beartown
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Topic: Sports
That tendency exists in all sports: parents always think their own expertise increases automatically as their child gets better at something.
From Beartown
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Topic: Sports
Soccer forces life to move on. There’s always a new match. A new season. There’s always a dream that everything can get better. It’s a game of wonders.
From Britt-Marie var här
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Topic: Sports
There's an old saying in Hed: "Tell a stranger you hate Beartown and you'll have a friend for life." The smallest child in Hed is quick to learn that it's important for Hed Hockey to do well, but that it's even more important that things go really badly for Beartown. Partly in jest, obviously. The stands are full of screamed threats about "hating" and "killing" each other, but of course they aren't serious. Until all of a sudden they are.
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Topic: Sports
Winners have a tendency to be forgiven in this town.
From Beartown
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Topic: Sports
A time like that comes for every man, when he chooses what sort of man he wants to be. And if you don't know the story, you don't know the man.
From A Man Called Ove
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Topic: Inspirational
That's the power of literature, you know, it can act like little love letters between two people who can only explain their feelings by pointing at other people's.
From Anxious People
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Topic: Relationships
What can the sport give us? We devote our whole lives to it, and what can we hope to get, at best? A few moments... a few victories, a few seconds when we feel bigger than we really are, a few isolated opportunities to imagine that we're... immortal. And it's a lie. It really isn't important.
From Beartown
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Topic: Sports
Something inside a man goes to pieces when he has to bury the only person who ever understood him. There is no time to heal that sort of wound.
From A Man Called Ove
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Topic: Death
Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.
From Beartown
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Topic: Inspirational
This has been a story about ice rinks and all the hearts that beat in and around them. About people and sports and how they sometimes take it in turns to carry each other. About us, dreaming and fighting.
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Topic: Sports
This book is dedicated to the voices inside my head, the most remarkable of my friends.
And to my wife, who lives with us.
From Anxious People
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Topic: Funny
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?
From Britt-Marie Was Here
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Topic: Funny
It takes the boy an hour to half crawl, half stagger to the locker room. It's empty. The heating has been switched off. His shoes have been shredded and his clothes are lying soaking wet on the floor of the shower. It's the best day of his life.
From Beartown
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Topic: Sports
She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life.
From A Man Called Ove
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Topic: Life
The only thing the sport gives us are moments.
From Beartown
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Topic: Sports
One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it’s happened.
From Britt-Marie var här
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Topic: Funny, Philosophical
Those of us who love sports don't always love sportsmen and women. Our love for them is conditional on them being on our side, playing on our team, competing in our colors. We can admire an opponent but we never love them, not the way we love the ones who represent us, because when ours win, it feels like we win too. They become symbols of everything we ourselves want to be.
From The Winners
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Topic: Sports
It's only a hockey game. An ice rink packed with people, two locker rooms full of players, two teams facing each other. Two men in a basement. Why do we care about that sort of thing?

Perhaps because it clarifies all of our most difficult questions. What makes us shout out loud with joy? What makes us cry? What are our happiest memories, our worst days, our deepest disappointments? Who did we stand alongside? What's a family? What's a team?

How many times in life are we completely happy?

How many chances do we get to love something that's almost pointless entirely unconditionally?
From Us Against You
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Topic: Sports
Children aren't responsible for their parents' happiness, but they still try.
From My Friends
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Topic: Happiness
Hockey isn't the past, it isn't yesterday, it's always next. The next line change, the next game, the next season, the next generation, the next magical moment when something we didn't think was possible becomes a miracle. The next chance to fly up from your seat and yell with joy. Next.
From The Winners
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Topic: Sports
I just mean ... damn ... this might sound a bit crazy, but sometimes you can't help wondering if we don't take all this a bit too seriously. If we aren't putting too much pressure on the juniors. They're not really much more than ... kids."

...

"That depends what we want from the kids. And what the kids want from hockey.
From Beartown
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Topic: Sports
Grief is a luxury for those living an easier life.
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Topic: Relationships
Disappointment is a powerful thing. Used correctly, it is stronger than fear, more terrible than physical pain, if you see it in the eyes of the one you love, you'll do almost anything to make it stop.
From My Friends
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Topic: Relationships
The planet knows no greater silence than two dozen hearts after a loss.
From Beartown
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Topic: Sports
That tendency exists in all sports: parents always think their own expertise increases automatically as their child gets better at something.
From Beartown
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Topic: Sports
Soccer forces life to move on. There’s always a new match. A new season. There’s always a dream that everything can get better. It’s a game of wonders.
From Britt-Marie var här
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Topic: Sports
There's an old saying in Hed: "Tell a stranger you hate Beartown and you'll have a friend for life." The smallest child in Hed is quick to learn that it's important for Hed Hockey to do well, but that it's even more important that things go really badly for Beartown. Partly in jest, obviously. The stands are full of screamed threats about "hating" and "killing" each other, but of course they aren't serious. Until all of a sudden they are.
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Topic: Sports
Winners have a tendency to be forgiven in this town.
From Beartown
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Topic: Sports
A time like that comes for every man, when he chooses what sort of man he wants to be. And if you don't know the story, you don't know the man.
From A Man Called Ove
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Topic: Inspirational
That's the power of literature, you know, it can act like little love letters between two people who can only explain their feelings by pointing at other people's.
From Anxious People
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Topic: Relationships
What can the sport give us? We devote our whole lives to it, and what can we hope to get, at best? A few moments... a few victories, a few seconds when we feel bigger than we really are, a few isolated opportunities to imagine that we're... immortal. And it's a lie. It really isn't important.
From Beartown
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Topic: Sports
Something inside a man goes to pieces when he has to bury the only person who ever understood him. There is no time to heal that sort of wound.
From A Man Called Ove
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Topic: Death
Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.
From Beartown
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Topic: Inspirational
This has been a story about ice rinks and all the hearts that beat in and around them. About people and sports and how they sometimes take it in turns to carry each other. About us, dreaming and fighting.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Sports
This book is dedicated to the voices inside my head, the most remarkable of my friends.
And to my wife, who lives with us.
From Anxious People
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Topic: Funny
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?
From Britt-Marie Was Here
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Topic: Funny
It takes the boy an hour to half crawl, half stagger to the locker room. It's empty. The heating has been switched off. His shoes have been shredded and his clothes are lying soaking wet on the floor of the shower. It's the best day of his life.
From Beartown
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Topic: Sports
She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life.
From A Man Called Ove
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Topic: Life
The only thing the sport gives us are moments.
From Beartown
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Topic: Sports
One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it’s happened.
From Britt-Marie var här
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Topic: Funny, Philosophical
Those of us who love sports don't always love sportsmen and women. Our love for them is conditional on them being on our side, playing on our team, competing in our colors. We can admire an opponent but we never love them, not the way we love the ones who represent us, because when ours win, it feels like we win too. They become symbols of everything we ourselves want to be.
From The Winners
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Topic: Sports
It's only a hockey game. An ice rink packed with people, two locker rooms full of players, two teams facing each other. Two men in a basement. Why do we care about that sort of thing?

Perhaps because it clarifies all of our most difficult questions. What makes us shout out loud with joy? What makes us cry? What are our happiest memories, our worst days, our deepest disappointments? Who did we stand alongside? What's a family? What's a team?

How many times in life are we completely happy?

How many chances do we get to love something that's almost pointless entirely unconditionally?
From Us Against You
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Topic: Sports
Children aren't responsible for their parents' happiness, but they still try.
From My Friends
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Topic: Happiness
Hockey isn't the past, it isn't yesterday, it's always next. The next line change, the next game, the next season, the next generation, the next magical moment when something we didn't think was possible becomes a miracle. The next chance to fly up from your seat and yell with joy. Next.
From The Winners
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Topic: Sports
I just mean ... damn ... this might sound a bit crazy, but sometimes you can't help wondering if we don't take all this a bit too seriously. If we aren't putting too much pressure on the juniors. They're not really much more than ... kids."

...

"That depends what we want from the kids. And what the kids want from hockey.
From Beartown
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Topic: Sports
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