A review by faithwalan
Beartown by Fredrik Backman

5.0

oh my god.
idek know what to say but this was a masterpiece. i cried several times- i will never forget this read. i was completely invested in the MANY characters and in this world. i can’t wait to continue the series. ana and mayas friendship is one of the most accurate teenage girl friendship i’ve ever read. 


If you are honest, people may deceive you. Be honest anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfishness. Be kind anyway. All the good you do today will be forgotten by others tomorrow. Do good anyway.

You never have the sort of friends you have when you’re fifteen ever again. Even if you keep them for the rest of your life, it’s never the same as it was then.

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 isn’t through love, because love is hard. It makes demands. Hate is simple

She was fifteen and had access to the Internet; she already knew that the world is a cruel place if you’re a girl. Her parents couldn’t imagine that this could happen, but Maya simply hadn’t expected it to happen to her.

Any living thing that is kept behind bars for long enough eventually becomes more scared of the unknown than its own captivity.

Because in the end that's all anyone can ask of another person. That we are prepared to admit that we don't know everything

Everything she has held back, everything she has tried to stifle, everything she has tried not to show in order to protect the people she loves, to stop them having to feel as much pain as her. She can’t bear their pain as well. She can’t handle the weight of other people’s sorrow on top of this.

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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