Everything is complicated if no one explains it to you.

It's complicated."
"Yes, until someone explains it to you!

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.

Because when you love someone very much, it's difficult to learn to share her with someone else.

Elsa thinks about how Granny used to say, 'You have standards and I have double standards, and so I win.

Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.