“Every five-year-old kid should have a pair of happy pajamas. (217)”
“Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?”
“Do you want to know something? I have three pairs of kid gloves. I've had kid mittens before from the Christmas tree, but never real kid gloves with five fingers. I take them out and try them on every little while. It's all I can do not to wear them to classes.”
“Undressing him reminds me of trying to change a sleepy, uncooperative four-year-old into his pajamas."-Dom”
“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”
“Five years off my life...I wondered with a wry smile, would people be immortal if they didn't have kids?”