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.

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

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.

... not all monsters look like monsters. There are some that carry their monstrosity inside.

We are trying to build peace by inventing new war machines

Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act.

Even people's dreams don't match the reality of my life. I don't dream, I set goals and accomplish them.

If our young people could but glimpse it, it would be the most powerful spiritual motivation of their lives!

Some people wait so long for their ship to come in, their pier collapses.

If you want to really understand about a tumor, you've got be be a tumor.

Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.

If God is enough for you, then you'll always have enough, because you'll always have God.

You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.

You can have a startup and one other thing, you can have a family, but you probably can't have many other things.