“Nonsense. Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older, and then before you know it, they're grown.”
“A child should never go to bed, they only wake up a day older.”
“Children's games are stronger than you remember once you've grown up and left them behind. They're always fair, and never kind.”
“You were young, I thought, not once but always before, always always, every day before the day just passed. You were young only minutes ago.”
“When I saw him I thought I could curl up inside him and go to sleep and never wake up." "Men are no good for that, Masha. They'll always want you working, when you're not softening their fall into bed at the end of the day.”
“You should know it yourself- a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.”