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.

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.

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.

I just know there's no way to live without pain - no matter how long or short your life is. People let you down. You get hurt and do damage in return.

Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.

We do not believe in murder! We believe in convenience in our careers, in our cuisine, in our kills, and in our definitions.

But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.

Triple tongued is triple named

History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies.

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

Want of punctuality is a want of virtue.

We like to talk about having the faith to be healed - what about the faith to be sick?.

Relative income uses two variables: the dollar and time, usually hours.