She goes silent. Ashamed of herself as mothers are when they realize they have passed that point in life when they want more from their daughters than their daughters want from them.

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.

I don't think anyone's past is ever truly gone. You carry every experience, good and bad, within you.

We should say nothing that we would not wish to say in His Presence. We should do nothing that we would not do in His Presence.

Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his past experiences.

Preach the word be instant in season out of season reprove rebuke exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.

The road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy.

Spying on people by magic is the same as spying on them in any other way.

Heavenly Father and the Savior are grateful that you do your part. They know you, They watch over you, and They love you.

Study your strengths; then decide how hard you want to work

There are so many things I'd like to do. Like becoming a parent. To me that is the next natural progression in life.

I went from being a beanpole - like a normal kid of the 1950s - and exploded. The weight piled on and didn't stop until into my adulthood.