kid

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
3e127e6	"I'm not comfortable in this stadium," I explained, trying to look calm. "I know. And you hate Fang looking at those girls. But we're still having fun, and Fang still loves you, and you'll still save the world. Okay?"	girl innocence jealousy kid love saving-the-world	James Patterson
708f9cd	"He knew that people were staring at him. He looked different. Even different from other Erasers. He wasn't as --seamless. He didn't look as human as the rest of them did when they weren't morphed. He kind of looked morphy all the time. He hadn't seen his plain real face in --a long time. "I know who you are." Ari almost jumped --he hadn't noticed the boy slide onto the bench next to him. He frowned down at the small, open face. "What?" he growled. This was when the little boy would get scared and probably turn and run. It always happened. The boy smiled. "1 know who you are," he said, pointing at Ari happily. Ari just snarled at him. The boy wiggled with excitement. "You're Wolverine!" Ari stared at him. "You look awesome, dude," said the boy. "You're totally my favorite. You're the strongest one of all of them and the coolest too. I wish 1 was like you." Ari almost gagged. No one had ever, ever said anything like that to him."	kid meeting sad superhero werewolf wish wolverine	James Patterson
d9c35b2	Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk to me about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead!	baby buy child children cry crying dead death eyes glare glares glaring kid kids life money-monetary plead pleading talk talking young young-adults youth	V.C. Andrews
e5d97e9	Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling pious and self- righteous while you starve small children!	baby child children dresses gray kid kids pious righteous self-righteous standing	V.C. Andrews
09cfaa4	He's completely blown through his younger years like his childhood was one big cigarette to smoke carelessly.	child childhood cigarette growing-up kid memory nostalgia smoke wasted-time young	Rebecca McNutt
c03a790	Then turn your eyes back on me, and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects.	adults child children condescension eyes incapable kid kids subjects teens told treated understand understanding young-adults	V.C. Andrews
5058335	There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal.	child children danger demand equal kid little much require risk show teach young youth	Robin Hobb
e4c945c	"7 Up soda pop mixed with bright pink grenadine with a chemical-tasting maraschino cherry stuck to the plastic straw. It was one of those drinks marketed for children, but Mandy could see that she wasn't the only adult ordering one. For some reason or other these old-fashioned restaurants always seemed to attract old ladies ordering strawberry Jell-O with whipped cream, truck drivers ordering "worms and dirt" (chocolate pudding with Oreo cookies squished over the top in a glass bowl, fruit-flavoured gummy worms over the cookie crumbs) and businessmen trying not to get syrup from their hot fudge sundaes on their neckties and tailored suits. Mandy figured that maybe they were all trying to grasp a time way back in the past when they were all little children, excitedly ordering desert for a special occasion under the warm incandescent light from above, cheerful and bouncing music filling their minds. Hurriedly she ate the food, paid the tab and hurried back to her car in the bitter wind, not wanting to stick around for very long."	adult bounce businessman canada car cherry childhood desert diner growing-up kid memory music shirley-temple snow swiss-chalet wind	Rebecca McNutt
311cc4d	They had started one of those wish-fulfillment kids' adventure books, where the boy hero has exactly the qualities he needs to triumph, at every moment... She'd been bored and annoyed, and at one point she tried to explain to Sebastian why it wasn't her favor-ite of his books. But Sebastian had loved the book unreservedly. Why hadn't she just read the fucking thing with gusto and relished every moment with her son? Why had she brought her adult judgment and professional story opinions to a book her kid loved? Of course the child hero should always triumph! Who wanted a kids' book to feel like real life? Real life was fucking intolerable.	child childhood hero judgment kid life reading	Maile Meloy
67adfbd	"Mais Turandot sort brusquement de son bistrot et, du bas des marches, il lui crie : "Eh petite, ou vas-tu comme ca ?" Zazie ne lui repond pas, elle se contente d'allonger le pas."	kid stubbornness zazie	Raymond Queneau
d00b666	I drive a beat-up Mercury Cougar, with the windows down and the music up. I seek my identity in toughness - but it is Morrie's softness that draws me, and because he doesn't look at me as a kid trying to be something more than I am, I relax.	close identity image kid music soft tough windows	Mitch Albom

3e127e6

"I'm not comfortable in this stadium," I explained, trying to look calm. "I know. And you hate Fang looking at those girls. But we're still having fun, and Fang still loves you, and you'll still save the world. Okay?"

girl innocence jealousy kid love saving-the-world

James Patterson

708f9cd

"He knew that people were staring at him. He looked different. Even different from other Erasers. He wasn't as --seamless. He didn't look as human as the rest of them did when they weren't morphed. He kind of looked morphy all the time. He hadn't seen his plain real face in --a long time. "I know who you are." Ari almost jumped --he hadn't noticed the boy slide onto the bench next to him. He frowned down at the small, open face. "What?" he growled. This was when the little boy would get scared and probably turn and run. It always happened. The boy smiled. "1 know who you are," he said, pointing at Ari happily. Ari just snarled at him. The boy wiggled with excitement. "You're Wolverine!" Ari stared at him. "You look awesome, dude," said the boy. "You're totally my favorite. You're the strongest one of all of them and the coolest too. I wish 1 was like you." Ari almost gagged. No one had ever, ever said anything like that to him."

kid meeting sad superhero werewolf wish wolverine

James Patterson

d9c35b2

Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk to me about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead!

baby buy child children cry crying dead death eyes glare glares glaring kid kids life money-monetary plead pleading talk talking young young-adults youth

V.C. Andrews

e5d97e9

Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling pious and self- righteous while you starve small children!

baby child children dresses gray kid kids pious righteous self-righteous standing

V.C. Andrews

09cfaa4

He's completely blown through his younger years like his childhood was one big cigarette to smoke carelessly.

child childhood cigarette growing-up kid memory nostalgia smoke wasted-time young

Rebecca McNutt

c03a790

Then turn your eyes back on me, and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects.

adults child children condescension eyes incapable kid kids subjects teens told treated understand understanding young-adults

V.C. Andrews

5058335

There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal.

child children danger demand equal kid little much require risk show teach young youth

Robin Hobb

e4c945c

"7 Up soda pop mixed with bright pink grenadine with a chemical-tasting maraschino cherry stuck to the plastic straw. It was one of those drinks marketed for children, but Mandy could see that she wasn't the only adult ordering one. For some reason or other these old-fashioned restaurants always seemed to attract old ladies ordering strawberry Jell-O with whipped cream, truck drivers ordering "worms and dirt" (chocolate pudding with Oreo cookies squished over the top in a glass bowl, fruit-flavoured gummy worms over the cookie crumbs) and businessmen trying not to get syrup from their hot fudge sundaes on their neckties and tailored suits. Mandy figured that maybe they were all trying to grasp a time way back in the past when they were all little children, excitedly ordering desert for a special occasion under the warm incandescent light from above, cheerful and bouncing music filling their minds. Hurriedly she ate the food, paid the tab and hurried back to her car in the bitter wind, not wanting to stick around for very long."

adult bounce businessman canada car cherry childhood desert diner growing-up kid memory music shirley-temple snow swiss-chalet wind

Rebecca McNutt

311cc4d

They had started one of those wish-fulfillment kids' adventure books, where the boy hero has exactly the qualities he needs to triumph, at every moment... She'd been bored and annoyed, and at one point she tried to explain to Sebastian why it wasn't her favor-ite of his books. But Sebastian had loved the book unreservedly. Why hadn't she just read the fucking thing with gusto and relished every moment with her son? Why had she brought her adult judgment and professional story opinions to a book her kid loved? Of course the child hero should always triumph! Who wanted a kids' book to feel like real life? Real life was fucking intolerable.

child childhood hero judgment kid life reading

Maile Meloy

67adfbd

"Mais Turandot sort brusquement de son bistrot et, du bas des marches, il lui crie : "Eh petite, ou vas-tu comme ca ?" Zazie ne lui repond pas, elle se contente d'allonger le pas."

kid stubbornness zazie

Raymond Queneau

d00b666

I drive a beat-up Mercury Cougar, with the windows down and the music up. I seek my identity in toughness - but it is Morrie's softness that draws me, and because he doesn't look at me as a kid trying to be something more than I am, I relax.

close identity image kid music soft tough windows

Mitch Albom