The best Quotes from Yes Day

Katie: "I cannot believe you stole this gorilla"
Carlos: "She did not steal it, she won it, square and fair"
Allison: "Square and fair. I did."

Allison: "I invented fun. I used to be the funnest person I knew."
Katie: "What happened?"
Allison: "What happened was I went off and had three little babies that had to be kept safe and alive."

I would love to just take a day off from being a mum and let my kids do whatever they want, but I'd also love to find a rainbow unicorn and fly it to the moon.

Allison: "Why can't Miss Hoffling ever assign a happy book? They are depressing. Have you ever read Little Women?"
Miss Hoffling: "She gets scarlet fever."
Carlos: "The Little Prince?"
Miss Hoffling: "He has no family. Harry Potter's an orphan. There are no happy books."

I hate saying no, but it's my job.

Allison: "Really? Tonight?"
Carlos: "Tonight? No no, not tonight. Tonight is our... your... the kids... Anniver... Birthday."

Although having kids is the best thing that's ever happened to us, no became the new yes.

Some people gravitate towards no. Some people naturally lean towards yes. I said yes to everything.

Thanks to budget cuts, I'm also the PE teacher / football coach. Go, Cougars! Shoot the layup for the touchdown. I don't know anything about sports.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Grown-ups love figures. When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters.
They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?"
Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make?" Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears!

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

"What makes the desert beautiful," said the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well."

I ask the indulgence of the children who may read this book for dedicating it to a grown-up. I have a serious reason: he is the best friend I have in the world. I have another reason: this grown-up understands everything, even books about children. I have a third reason: he lives in France where he is hungry and cold. He needs cheering up. If all these reasons are not enough, I will dedicate the book to the child from whom this grown-up grew. All grown-ups were once children– although few of them remember it. And so I correct my dedication:

To Leon Werth
When he was a little boy

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.

I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

There has never been a time without unicorns. We live forever! We are as old as the sky, old as the moon! We can be hunted, trapped; we can even be killed if we leave our forests, but we do not vanish. Am I truly the last?

I just thought squirting was a myth, like unicorns or moderate Republicans.

Reality is a thing for people who are scared of unicorns.

And please bless that someone will adopt us soon, and that the mommy and daddy will be nice and have a pet unicorn.

When I'm 80 years old and sitting in my rocking chair, I'll be reading Harry Potter. And my family will say to me, "After all this time?" And I will say: "Always."

J.K. Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever.

Maybe Harry Potter is real and you're not.

Marshall: "When a woman puts on an engagement ring, it's like when Bilbo Baggins wears the One Ring in The Hobbit."
Robin: "Okay, can you say that again, but not in nerd?"
Marshall: "Sure. Uh, the ring is like the cloak that Harry Potter wears to sneak around Hogwarts."
Robin: "Yeah, I don't speak virgin either."

The legacy of these movies is that my children's generation will show them to their children. So, you could be watching them in 50 years' time, easy. I'll not be here sadly, but Hagrid will.

Are you the one person in the universe who's never read Harry Potter?

I've got my life and "Harry Potter", where I travel the world, I make films, I meet amazing people, I do press junkets and stuff. And then I go back home to Leeds, where I live, and I've got the same friends from before.

Your cells age at half the rate of a normal human. When you're 40, you'll still have the leucocytes of a teenager.

I will escape for every innocent woman whose life was stolen.

Elodie, you join a long line of women who have helped to build this kingdom. It is this sacrifice we commemorate every generation. A tradition going back centuries. A legacy of honor and duty you now inherit.

I need you to listen to me now. I don't trust them. They may be royalty, but that doesn't make them good people.