You should choose your battles if you can, but if the battle chooses you then kick the sod in his fuse box!

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[.]

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.

Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them.

I wanna be in the headlines, anything to be in the headlines.

You only get one chance at life, not two! Don't joke around with your own life.

Adults are only obsolete children.

I love heels! I especially like heels by Nicholas Kirkwood, Jimmy Choo and Moschino.

The great guardian principle of all conduct in the church of God is personal responsibility to the Lord.

Mistakes were made long ago. It is someone else's fault. We can't be held responsible, but we are very sorry.

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

When you argue for free markets, you are arguing against the trend.

I make love to the beautiful Maria and you make love to your stick!