It’s difficult to know when love blooms; suddenly one day you wake up and it’s in full flower. It works the same way when it wilts—one day it is just too late.

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

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

Everything is complicated if no one explains it to you.

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

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.