You never have the sort of friends you have when you’re fifteen ever again. Even if you keep them for the rest of your life, it’s never the same as it was then.

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.