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"Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street."
"The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child."
"No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time."
"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
"A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators."
"Fear is the mother of morality."
"He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly."
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"We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening."
"Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood."
"With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own."
"I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them."
"I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up."
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