"I love the smell of Asher's breath. Nice and crackery!"

Lucas: "What did the 7 say to the 8? ... No, what did the ... No. What did the 7 say to the 8?"
Mommy: "7 ate 9?"
Lucas: "No. What did the …  What did the 0 say to the 8?"
Daddy: "I don't know, what?"
Lucas: "Nice belt."

"Mom, why don't you exercise more?"

"It's not only children who grow.  Parents do too.  As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours.  I can't tell my children to reach for the sun.  All I can do is reach for it, myself."

~Joyce Maynard

"What child does not feel itself perched at the center of creation? Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being."

-Gregory Maguire, Mirror, Mirror