My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry Quotes
"Every seven-year-old deserves a superhero. That’s just how it is."
"Anyone who doesn’t agree needs their head examined."
"All the best people are different—look at superheroes."
"If superpowers were normal, everyone would have them."
"Granny says people who think slowly always accuse quick thinkers of concentration problems."
"Nothing scares idiots more than a smart girl."
"A grandmother is both a sword and a shield."
"If you can’t get rid of the bad, you have to top it up with more goody stuff."
"All seven-year-olds deserve superheroes."
"Having a grandmother is like having an army."
"She’s my grandchild, Marcel. May the heavens bless her little head."
"I don’t want Elsa to know that I am going to die because all seven-year-olds deserve superheroes, Marcel."
"It’s a grandmother’s prerogative never to have to show her worst sides to her grandchild."
"There’s something special about a grandmother’s house. You never forget how it smells."
"In the Land-of-Almost-Awake, every day is the national day."
"It’s going to be a grand adventure and a fairy tale of marvels."
"I promise that everything will be fine."
"Invisibility is the sort of superpower you can train yourself to have."
"Normal, terrifying monsters don’t actually live in flats and get their mail delivered."
"The last time Elsa was called in to see the headmaster, he only called Mum and Dad, but Granny came along all the same."
"Only different people change the world. No one normal has ever changed a crapping thing."
"It's possible to love your grandmother for years and years without really knowing anything about her."
"Sometimes the safest place is when you flee to what seems the most dangerous."
"You should choose your battles if you can, but if the battle chooses you then kick the sod in his fuse box!"
"All really good stories work like this."
"There is an absolutely unimaginable number of very special monsters in the forests and mountains of Miamas. But none were more legendary or more deserving of the respect of every creature in Miamas (even Granny) than the wurses."
"I WAS PROVOKED! I COULDN’T CONTROL MYSELF!"
"What did Britt-Marie mean when she said in our family we ‘put the career before the children?’ She meant Granny, didn’t she?"
"It’s from the hospital, I have to answer."
"By the time Elsa gets up an hour after that, Mum is sleeping on the sofa in the living room."
"Because now she knows where to find the next clue in Granny’s treasure hunt."
"You have to understand, first of all, that no creature in the Land-of-Almost-Awake is sadder than the sea-angel."
"Elsa’s birthday was always extremely important to Granny."
"In Miamas you don’t get presents on your birthday. You give presents."
"Two hundred thousand people died at the same time that Elsa started to live."
"That was when a hundred snow-angels saved the remaining five kingdoms."
"Because not all monsters were monsters in the beginning. Some are monsters born of sorrow."
"So Elsa sits in the passenger seat in Renault and inhales deeply."
"Elsa hears how the drunk starts singing her song. Because not all monsters look like monsters."
"Improbable catastrophes produce improbable things in people, improbable sorrow and improbable heroism."
"It’s the most terrifying dream of all the eternities."
"And then everything changes quickly. Her whole manner. Her way of talking. Even her way of breathing."
"Every fairy tale has a dragon. Thanks to Granny, that is. . . ."
"I’ve brought some cookies," says Maud expansively, giving Elsa the whole tin and patting her tenderly on the cheek.
"Please, Britt-Marie, we’re doing business here," Kent says dismissively, more or less like Elsa when Mum wants her to wear something green.
"I want to know exactly what the accountant said when he called," Kent demands.
"Ah! You’ve got eggs?" Kent bursts out enthusiastically.
"Just come on in, all of you. Make yourselves at home," says Mum, tying the sash of her dressing gown a little tighter.
"Kent has been going on about these sodding leaseholds ever since he moved back in, he won’t be satisfied until he can wipe his ass with the money he’s shat out first," explains Alf.
"Then we won’t be escaping Miamas. We’ll be leaving of our own free will," says Elsa out loud to herself.
"You shouldn’t have rushed off like that. If you’ve taken that animal on, you have to bloody shoulder your responsibility for it, even if you’re a kid," admonishes Alf.
"I don’t know what a bloody leasehold is, I’m not bloody thick," says Elsa.
"There’s nothing wrong with being different. Granny said that only different people change the world," Elsa asserts confidently.
"I understand that you and your granny have very curious acquaintances, but rules apply to everyone, they really do!" Britt-Marie states firmly.
"But one day when Elsa read on the Internet how many trees it took to make just one edition of a newspaper, she put up "No junk mail ever, thanks!" notices on both Mum’s and Granny’s doors," Elsa recalls.
"Never mess with someone who has more spare time than you do," Granny used to say.
"You’re really a very different little child," says the woman to Elsa.
"Maybe it’s hard to believe in God," answers the woman to Elsa’s query.
"Because everyone likes George. It’s his superpower," Elsa reflects.
"Granny hated the environment, but she was the kind of person you brought along when you were going to war. So she became a terrorist for Elsa’s sake," Elsa remembers.
"Because every fairy tale has a dragon," Elsa thinks to herself.
"You do understand, dear, I would obviously never ever think you and your grandmother’s friends had anything to do with junkies," Britt-Marie explains awkwardly.
"You know who I mean. He was very slim and stood here smoking on the stairs. He was looking for a child, a family friend, he said, and then he described you," Britt-Marie recalls.
"Has your friend come back? Wolf—what was it you called him?" asks the woman in jeans, showing concern.
"It’s not you he’s after," Alf reveals to Elsa.
"You’re right, Elsa. Your grandmother says sorry," Lennart confirms to Elsa.
"A dozen dreams and a dozen cinnamon buns, every single day!"
"You’re a grandmother and grandfather above all things! Always! Always!"
"Because without music there can’t be any dreams, and without dreams there can’t be any fairy tales, and without fairy tales there can’t be any courage."
"Because it’s not my job to kill. It’s my job to protect."
"I think your grandmother would have wanted you to dress up as any old damned thing you wanted."
"People are bloody idiots when they’re young."
"Because I like it when he shouts my name."
"People have to tell their stories, Elsa. Or they suffocate."
"Christmas stories are supposed to have morals."
"You’d quickly run out of people if you had to disqualify all those who at some point have been shits."
"It’s not complicated being a grown-up sometimes, Elsa."
"You have to care about something, Elsa. As soon as anyone cared about anything in this world, your granny always dismissed it as ‘nagging,’ but if you don’t care about anything you’re actually not alive at all. You’re only existing."
"But they operate on him and remove the magnet at the end of the third film!"
"I want someone to remember I existed. I want someone to know I was here."
"You can’t die. You can’t die, because I’m here now. And you’re my friend. No real friend would just go and die like that, do you understand? Friends don’t die on each other."
"It’s hard to let go of someone you love. Especially when you are almost eight."
"She was the love of my life, Elsa. She was the love of many men’s lives. Women as well, actually."
"I always wanted to read the ones that were in books. They always said, ‘Make one up!’ but I don’t understand why one should sit there and make things up just like that, when there are books where everything has been written down from the very start."
"We don’t beat people to death in this leaseholders’ association."
"You never say good-bye in the Land-of-Almost-Awake. You just say ‘See you later.’"
"It’s the funniest thing Dad has ever said."