Because when you love someone very much, it's difficult to learn to share her with someone else.

We have to do it for my mum's sake. Because I'm hoping that the last sorry will be to her.

It's strange how quickly the significance of of a certain smell can change, depending on what path it decides to take through the brain. It's strange how close love and fear live to each other.

Or that time she made a snowman in Britt-Marie and Kent’s garden right under their balcony and dressed it up in grown-up clothes so it looked as if a person had fallen from the roof.

Don't people get married because they're full of love and then divorced when they run out of it?" (Elsa)"Did you learn that one in school?" (Mom)"It's my own theory." (Elsa)

Mum is a perfectionist and Dad is a pedant and that was partly why their marriage didn't work so well, Elsa figures. Because a perfectionist and a pedant are two very different things.

There's something quite special about a granny's house. Even if ten or twenty or thirty years go by, you never forget how it smells.

Until there are so many of them that no one dares to chase them anymore. Until they're an army in themselves. Because if a sufficient number of people are different, no one has to be normal.

When it comes to terror, reality’s got nothing on the power of the imagination[.]

You should choose your battles if you can, but if the battle chooses you then kick the sod in his fuse box!

It's going to be a grand adventure and a fairy tale of marvels. But it's my fault that you'll find a dragon at the end, my darling knight.

A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.

When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.

I will do everything I can to reach out to everybody.

I've never been fired in my life.

The Lord Protector and his hair got off the elevator.

I never push in front my muscles, only my religion, so I'm protected.

Love cannot exist in peace, it will always come accompanied by agonies, ecstasies, intense joys and profound sadnesses.

Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went- Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament. But no, I was out for stars: I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.

Don't let your pride or a lack of courage stand in the way of saying you're sorry to people you may have offended.

All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.