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

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.

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.

Ask yourself:Am I living my past, present or future?

Often the most effective statement we can make in a noisy world is to say nothing at all. Don't waste your words over something or to someone who deserves silence.

The original stories are mined out, and all that’s left is fool’s gold.

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray."

A writer should never install himself before a panorama, however grandiose it may be.

Read Jerrod Edson. He is one of our best young writers.

The greatest gift you can give to others is to fulfill YOUR potential, so that you can show them how to fulfill theirs.

To be inclusive you must accommodate different levels of sophistication.

I think if everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionaries and brilliant.