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.

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.

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.

Women's liberation by women who are already liberated through channels that would mess them up further

When a nation is under oppression for too long, it gets used to it and begins to agree with that oppression

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.

When you believe yourself to be master of your thoughts, you become so.

Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scars

Actually, I'm probably 99-and-a-half percent plastic now.

Are you aware it is private property? Why you'll be asking be to bomb Essen next.

Lent comes providentially to reawaken us, to shake us from our lethargy.

I've played so many moms, best friends, sisters and understanding people.