- Paloma Josse: Planning to die doesn't mean I let myself go like a rotten vegetable. What matters isn't the fact of dying or when you die. It's what you're doing at that precise moment.
- Renée Michel: Happy families are all alike.
- Kakuro Ozu: Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
- [Quoting from Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina']