Fredrik Backman

It's Christmas Even morning. Years ago a man abandoned his son to pursue professional success; now he wonders if it's too late to forge a relationship with him. One week earlier, in a hospital late at night, the man met a five-year-old girl with cancer. When the man is given the chance to do something selfless that could change the destiny of the little girl in the hospital bed, he needs to find out what his own life has actually been worth in the eyes of his son before he makes the deal of a lifetime.

The Deal of a Lifetime

kaja

Maybe everyone feels that way about their hometown: the place we’re from never apologizes, never admits that it was wrong about us. It just sits there, at the end of the motorway, whispering: “You might be all rich and powerful now. And maybe you do come home with expensive watches and fancy clothes. But you can’t fool me, because I know who you really are. You’re just a scared little boy.”

Gabi🌸🌷

"Ne bojiš se ti. Samo ti je žao. Vama ljudima nikad nitko ne kaže da žaljenje osjećate kao strah."

But the vast majority of successful people don’t become bastards, we were bastards long before. That’s why we’ve been successful. 

The only thing of value on Earth is time. One second will always be a second, there’s no negotiating with that. 

This has always been your town in a way it never was for me; you never tried to find a life, you were in the right place from the start.

karina

You wiped the bar and sorted the glasses and I thought about the love in your hands. You’ve always touched the things you like as though they have a pulse.

Maybe all people have that feeling deep down, that your hometown is something you can never really escape, but can never really go home to, either. Because it’s not home anymore. We’re not trying to make peace with it. Not with the streets and the bricks of it. Just who we were back then. And maybe forgive ourselves for everything we thought we would become and didn’t. 

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