Just everything else, Mum. I just have everything else from you.

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.

Change moves incrementally from breath to breath and moment to moment, allowing for course-correction along the way.

Magic!' cried an old man. 'Tis sorcery, and we are undone!' 'Not so, ' I told him, 'Sorcery cannot harm good Christians.' 'But I am a miserable sinner, ' he wailed.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.

I always liken it to being a referee - if you notice the referee, that's not a good thing.

Your success is directly proportional to the quality of the relationships in your life.

I wouldn't give my troubles to a monkey on a rock.

To all the guys who broke our hearts - we wouldn't appreciate what we have today without you.

Expect the worst and that's what you'll get only it will be much worse.

You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to.