“The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable.”
“Oh I get it...You're looking for the quickest way to the hospital, huh?~Train Heartnet”
“The quickest way to the top, is getting off your bottom”
“It would be a comfort, she felt, to lean; to sit down; yes, to lie down; never, never, never to get up again.”
“There’s no winning arguments with your parents, so why get all pumped up over them? It is way better to dive down and get out of the way than it is to get clobbered by some parental tidal wave.”
“Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.”