You shouldn't do that. Not to your child. You should-carry your own burdens.

One does silly things when one is twelve.

Our fathers were demons,' Catarina said. 'Our mothers were heroes.

We find in our children our own selves again, who might be made better than we are.

With their hands clasped like children in a fairy tale, she fell asleep beside him in the dark.

Who am I?” he whispered. “For years I pretended I was other than I was, and then I gloried that I might return to the truth of myself, only to find there is no truth to return to. I was an ordinary child, and then I was a not very good man, and now I do not know how to be either of those things any longer. I do not know what I am, and when Jem is gone, there will be no one to show me.

Every book is different with it's own personality just like children.

You can't raise a child to believe the opposite of what you do.

You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds out of the nest. The poor parent birds work themselves to death trying to find enough food to feed the enormous cuckoo child who has murdered their babies and taken their places." "Enormous?" said Jace. "Did you just call me fat?" "It was an analogy." "I am not fat.