“Mothers are o loving and kind they never want their kids to grow up.”

“I want my kids to have the things in life that I never had when I was growing up. Things like beards and chest hair.”

“Most kids grow sullen and angry when they’re working through issues, but Thanet mustered up another kind of bull-headed strength. The kind that sees beyond circumstances to what really matters. How could anyone hurt a soul that lovely?”

“Mother, father, there is no passing the cup. I want to be a troublemaker when I grow up.”

“Everyone wants their kid to grow up and go to Harvard or be aquarterback for the Patriots. No one ever looks at their baby and thinks, Oh, I hope my kid grows upand becomes a freak. I hope he gets to school every day and prays he won’t catch anyone’sattention. But you know what? Kids grow up like that every single day.”

“I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic.”