Anxious People Quotes
"It’s always very easy to declare that other people are idiots, but only if you forget how idiotically difficult being human is."
"Our hearts are bars of soap that we keep losing hold of."
"We pretend to be good parents when all we really do is provide our kids with food and clothing and tell them off."
"Sometimes it hurts, it really hurts, for no other reason than the fact that our skin doesn’t feel like it’s ours."
"Everyone loves someone, and anyone who loves someone has had those desperate nights where we lie awake trying to figure out how we can afford to carry on being human beings."
"One single really bad idea. That’s all it takes."
"Older men rarely know what to say to younger men to let them know that they care."
"We look around occasionally, at our place of work or at parents’ meetings or out in the street, and realize with horror that everyone else seems to know exactly what they’re doing."
"Life doesn’t always turn out the way you expect."
"Normal bank robbers ask for large amounts and round figures."
"We needed a way to describe the fact that it’s so unlikely that a bank would ever behave morally that it can only be considered a risk for them even to try."
"Because even if twenty-year-olds can be wrong about a lot of things in life, this particular twenty-year-old was actually right about one thing."
"If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans."
"The truth of course is that if people really were as happy as they look on the Internet, they wouldn’t spend so much damn time on the Internet."
"Anyone can nurture a myth about their life if they have enough manure, so if the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, that’s probably because it’s full of shit."
"Love one another until death do us part, or at least until one of us gets bored."
"You only lend money to people who don’t really need to borrow money."
"The worst thing a divorce does to a person isn’t that it makes all the time you devoted to the relationship feel wasted, but that it steals all the plans you had for the future."
"Democracy as a system is doomed, because idiots will believe anything as long as the story's good enough."
"Happiness is like money. A made-up value that represents something we can't weigh or measure."
"The most expensive thing you can buy in the most densely populated places on the planet is distance."
"People don't want to buy a picture, they want to buy a frame."
"It's not unusual to see a pistol and think: Did I switch the coffee machine off this morning? instead of: What's going to happen to my children?"
"You don’t do things like that at apartment viewings! There are unwritten rules!"
"Just because it’s an interview room doesn’t mean it can’t look nice, does it?"
"People need a project, so Roger and I became sharks, and if we didn’t keep moving, our marriage wouldn’t get any oxygen."
"Can you imagine what a bad parent you must have been for your children not to want to be parents?"
"It’s harder than you might think to take people hostage when they’re idiots."
"The ones who are looking for a home are emotional idiots, they’ll pay anything because they think all their problems will just disappear the moment they move in."
"Everyone gets a few moments that show who they really are, tiny instances that reveal their entire soul."
"You can always get rid of scratched floors and ugly wallpaper when you move in, can’t you? But a crapping rabbit? It gets stuck in here!"
"You’re bleeding, I’ll get some tissue," she whispered, but Roger wiped his nose on the sleeve of his shirt.
"Everyone inside the apartment had their own complexes, their own demons and anxieties."
"Forgive me," the bank robber suddenly said in the silence that had settled upon them.
"Sometimes 'Stockholm' can actually be a compliment: a dream of somewhere bigger, where we can become someone else."
"You should buy this apartment for your wife. There’s nothing wrong with it."
"You don’t fall in love with a gender, Anna-Lena. You fall in love with an idiot."
"You’re never more important than you are then."
"Worst hostages ever. You’re the worst hostages ever."
"It’s good for preventing scurvy. Sailors used to be given lime on board ships."
"I’m a failure and an idiot. I haven’t got a plan."
"Everyone’s having pizza! Besides, it’s free!"
"What’s your problem? I’m pregnant and there were people with guns, I had a lot of things to think about, I’m not some preschool teacher counting knapsacks on a bus."
"She’s lying. One time I discovered she’d bought sugar-free chocolate. Sugar-free! And then she hid that as well, as if I wouldn’t even be able to stop myself eating sugar-free chocolate, like some bloody psychopath."
"All professions have their technical aspects that outsiders don’t understand, tools and implements and complicated terminology."
"On the one hand this seems like the smartest crime in the world… but on the other, it seems to have been carried out by a complete idiot."
"The greatest loneliness in the world: when no one is walking beside you toward your destination."
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."
"We can’t change the world, and a lot of the time we can’t even change people. So we do what we can to help whenever we get the chance, sweetheart."
"Boats that stay in the harbor are safe, but that’s not what boats were built for."
"God doesn’t protect people from knives, sweetheart. That’s why God gave us other people, so we can protect each other."
"The truth? It’s hardly ever as complicated as we think. We just hope it is, because then we feel smarter if we can work it out in advance."
"The market is supposed to be self-regulating, but people like you spoil the balance between supply and demand."
"Apartments aren’t supposed to be investments, they're supposed to be homes."
"No one can go to two thousand apartment viewings and not realize that there's more love in the world than the opposite."
"If you can do something for someone in such a way that they think they managed it all on their own, then you've done a good job."
"You don't have to love being a mother, not all the time."
"Bridges exist to bring people closer together."
"But the funny ones, oh, they last a lifetime!"
"And children don't need the world's best parents, just their own parents."
"Humor is the soul's last line of defense, and as long as we're laughing we're alive."
"You can do this! You’re a strong, independent real estate agent and this apartment will be sold, by you!"
"I thought, I can’t die. That would have been irresponsible of me."
"It was one of the seller’s requests, and I didn’t mind, because at the House Tricks Real Estate Agency, every day is a working day!"
"I always am before any big viewing, so I usually shut myself in the bathroom, for a couple of minutes to give myself a pep talk."
"I’ve actually got several viewings over the next few weeks. The House Tricks Real Estate Agency has a duty to its clients."
"You don’t have to wait for the pizzas. You can all go now. I’ll give up and let the police do… well, whatever they’re thinking of doing."
"I just needed money for the rent so my ex-husband’s lawyer wouldn’t take my daughters away from me."
"You don’t know a damn thing about Hawaiians!"
"Nothing must happen to you, No, what am I saying, Everything must happen to you, And it must be wonderful."
"If we do, you can sit in the front. And we’re not going in a car with lots of crap dangling from the rearview mirror. That’s an evolutionary dead end."
"It’s a harder word than you might think, when you’ve been climbing trees for so long."
"Because people need stories, too, sometimes."
"Dads are dads and daughters are daughters, and not even psychologists can quite come to terms with that."
"We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows."
"No one robs a bank for their children’s sake unless they’re a romantic."
"The lock clicked as they fixed it in place. The monkey threw the key over the railing and it spun down toward the water, and all three of them cried. 'Forever,' the mom whispered. 'Forever,' the girls repeated."
"You’re my princess, and my warrior, you can be both at the same time—promise me that you’ll never forget that."
"You saved yourself. He just happened to be there."
"It helps to know that you’re not alone when you’ve been left behind."