“And Mum was all 'don't you two look grownup' which obvs means 'omg slutbags' in the language of Parent.”
“Dory is what Mum used to call a "strong-looking woman," which means that, from the back, she looked like a man, and, from the front, you preferred the back”
“Finally, she's like, "I know it looks bad right now, but parents are just people. They don't always know what to do. That doesn't mean they don't love you.”
“The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.”
“Grownups don't know how to believe”
“The full meaning of a language is never translatable into another. We may speak several languages but one of them always remains the one in which we live. In order completely to assimilate a language it would be necessary to make the world which it expresses one's own and one never does belong to two worlds at once.”