1. It's a parent's duty NOT to be perfect. For if they were, their children would never grow up. (With thanks to Dorothy Rowe.)

2. Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther depicts a love triangle. Werther loves Lotte, who's engaged to marry, and then marries, Albert. Werther realises that one of them must die. Being a sensitive soul, he kills himself. It seems that Raoul Moat was involved in a love triangle, only he decided that he was not the only one who had to die. (With thanks to Anouchka Grose.)

3. To be buried alongside your deceased beloved, is to be able to be able to take them in your arms once more. (With thanks to Andrew Motion.)