"Most children – I know I did when I was a kid – fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don’t tell their real parents about that – you don’t want to tell Mom and Dad."
― Maurice Sendak
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- "What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is."
- "I’ve convinced myself – I hope I’m right – that children despair of you if you don’t tell them the truth."
- "Kids don’t know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren’t star chasers and they don’t suck up. It’s why I like them."
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- "My goal is for Gunnar to outlive me. That’s the way it should be. My dream is for him to be a dad himself one day, so he can find out all the anxiety that kids bring to their dads."― Boomer Esiason