“Mother, father, there is no passing the cup. I want to be a troublemaker when I grow up.”
“I respect every way in which you are a troublemaker, now get up and do what your mother says.”
“i know at last what i want to be when i grow up. when i grow up i want to be a little boy.”
“In the cab to the station, he told me that when he was growing up he'd see a look of pleasure cross his mother's face and ask what she was thinking: she'd say, I was just thinking of your father. "That's how I want us to be," Archie said.I smiled."What?"I said, "I was just thinking of your father.”
“When I grow up, I'm going to be my mother.”
“What was I thinking? Of all the assistants I could have wound up with, why did I have to choose the one with the scary mother and troublemaking in his bloodlines? I am doomed.”