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"If I would be made come to earth again, I would ask for the same mother again. If made to return 100 times to earth, I would request to be born through the same mother 100 times!"
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"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."
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"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."
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"They play in the Meadow. The dancing girl with the dark hair and blue eyes. The boy with blond curls and gray eyes, struggling to keep up with her on his chubby toddler legs. It took five, ten, fifteen years for me to agree. But Peeta wanted them so badly. When I first felt her stirring inside of me, I was consumed with a terror that felt as old as life itself. Only the joy of holding her in my arms could tame it."
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"It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think."
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"A good mother... when you CRY, she CARRIES you; when you are HUNGRY, she will HURRY to feed you; when you are about to SLEEP, she SINGS for you! Long live good mothers! Thank you mama!"
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"Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material."
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"Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents' foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood."
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"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."
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"Mother is the center of the family, everyone else surrounds her."
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"I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second."
Writing
"I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself."
Experience
"But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny."
Fun
"When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way."
Family
"If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation."
People
"The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life."
Life
"I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover."
Fact
"It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?"
Work
"It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die."
Change
"The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need."
Pleasure
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