People can turn into idiots if they're alone for long enough. (Mum)

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.

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.