“I often wonder why, when governments and communities erect monuments to heroes, they forget to erect one to the honour of the Pioneer.”

“Death is harder on those who are left behind.”

“Can you be happy when you are unhappy?”

“...because if there was one thing he didn't like it was big words, they just lied and covered things up, those big words, they didn't let what really was live and breathe but just carried it off into something that wanted to be big, that's what he thought...”

“No one was ever good enough for anybody's precious sons. No one ever called daughters precious, and why was that? Things had not changed very much. In the end women like Emily and Ingrid and Freya and Joanna only had one another to lean on. The men were wonderful when they were around, but their fires burned too bright, they lived too close to the sun - look what happened to her boy, and to her man. Gone. Women only had one another in the end.”

“Is this how you see me – as your government teacher? Because if I saw you as a student I wouldn’t be here right now. When I look at you I see the girl I want to be with. Have since the first day you walked into my room.”

“Kjærleiken er den andesom gjer at vi finst tilKjærleiken er den vandesom vil og ikkje vilKjærleiken er ei lykkeog han er sorga di, han går der bak eit stykkeog så går han forbiKjærleiken er som lyset,det kjem og det forsvinnKjærleiken er det gysetsom seier tap og vinn”