People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was colour. All the colour he had.

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.