“It doesn't matter what story we're telling, we're telling the story of family.” FamilyStory Author:Erica Lorraine Scheidt
“I want to go back to the tell-me-again times when I slept in her bed and we were everything together. When I was everything to her. Everything she needed.” MotherMissingDaughterParentsParents And ChildrenMother Daughter Book:Uses for Boys Source: Uses for Boys
“It's hard, omigod remember? Being a kid.” KidsChildhoodYouthAdolescence Author:Erica Lorraine Scheidt
“In the tell-me-again times, (…) when my mom and I lived in a little apartment in a little building downtown, I slept in her bed. It was a raft on the ocean, a cloud, a forest, a spaceship, a cocoon that we shared. I could stretch out like a five-pointed star and then she'd bundle me back up in her arms. I'd wake in the morning tangled in her hair.” ChildrenChildhoodChildhood MemoriesMother Daughter Book:Uses for Boys Source: Uses for Boys
“I belong here, I tell Toy. I'm hungry for every city block. Every brick building. Every crowded intersection. Electric. I feel brand new.” ExploringCityFeeling Infinite Book:Uses for Boys Source: Uses for Boys
“You don’t look like anyone special at all,” I tell him. And I curse him. And I start a club to hate him. And I make a magic spell to get rid of him.” ChildrenMagic Spells Book:Uses for Boys Source: Uses for Boys