Fredrik Backman

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

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Eslie

Having a grandmother is like having an army. This is a grandchild’s ultimate privilege: knowing that someone is on your side, always, whatever the details. Even when you are wrong. Especially then, in fact.

A grandmother is both a sword and a shield

She didn’t even understand the most basic symbolism of a Gryffindor scarf. And while Elsa didn’t want to be elitist or anything, how could one be expected to reason with a person like that?

“Only different people change the world,” Granny used to say. “No one normal has ever changed a crapping thing.”

“Don’t fight with monsters, for you can become one. If you look into the abyss for long enough, the abyss looks into you.” 

Because all seven-year-olds deserve superheroes.

And whoever disagrees with that needs their head examined.

Nataly

“Your granny was old.” "Not to me. I only knew her for seven years. Almost eight.”

She is still crying. Wolfheart as well. But they do what they can. They construct words of forgiveness from the ruins of fighting words.

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