“Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?” FeelsChildrenKidsAbleRememberUsedWallBedUsed To BeBreathingSpinning Author:Lynda Barry
“I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in 'Batman 2'.” WantReasonKidsBedWeekend Author:Gary Oldman
“I was the youngest in my family. When the other kids went to school, my mother would make them breakfast and then she would go back to bed for an hour, so I was sort of babysat by television.” KidsSchoolMotherHoursTelevisionBedMy FamilyBreakfast Author:Paula Poundstone
“I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.” HomeRunningKidsSchoolUsedOrderHouseMomBedLateBeatsWindowMy MomDrySheets Author:Vince Vaughn
“And in bed, deep inside the building, are all the headaches that won't go away. The failed kidneys, the rashes, the ragged-edged moles, the lumps on the breast, the coughs that have turned nasty. In the Marie Curie Ward on the fourth floor are the kids with cancer. Their bodies secretly and slowly being consumed. And then there's the mortuary, where the dead lie in refrigerated drawers with name tags on their feet.” BodyKidsLyingNamesFeetBuildingBedCancerBreastsGoing AwayFourthNastyConsumedHeadacheTagLumpsDrawersDeep InsideKidneysMarieRaggedMolesMortuary Book:Before I Die Source: Before I Die
“He stepped colser. Looked deep into my eyes. Hesitated a millisecond, and then dove in. "I think I'm falling in love with you." Oh. No. "Cole--" "I know how you feel. About me. About him. I just wanted you to know-we could be good together. We could have a life. Kids. Vacations. On Sunday mornings I could serve you breakfast in bed." He gave me his I-know-you-find-me-irrestible grin. "And then I could make you something to eat.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsEyeKidsWantedTogetherFallMorningKnow HowLove YouBedFalling In LoveBe GoodSundayBreakfastVacationFind MeDoveHow You FeelSunday MorningFalling In Love With YouBreakfast In Bed Author:Jennifer Rardin
“Or perhaps a widow found him and took him in: brought him an easy chair, changed his sweater every morning, shaved his face until the hair stopped growing, took him faithfully to bed with her every night, whispered sweet nothings into what was left of his ear, laughed with him over black coffee, cried with him over yellowing pictures, talked greenly about having kids of her own, began to miss him before she became sick, left him everything in her will, thought of only him as she died, always knew he was fiction but believed in him anyway.” KidsFacesNightFoundLeftEasyBlackFictionMorningGrowingMissingChangedSweetHairBedEarsSickDiedCoffeeChairsLaughedEvery NightCriedEvery MorningWidowsSweatersHaving KidsBlack Coffee Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“This was the kid who used to toddle over to my bed at 6 o’ clock in the morning every weekend morning to pull on my blankets so I’d get up and watch cartoons with him. This was the kid who once made me play Hungry Hungry Hippos for an hour straight, until I thought my hands were going to fall off from slamming down those dumb little levers to make the hippos’ heads move. This was the kid who had spent an entire days at a time begging me to play Chutes and Ladders with him. And now he was feeling too sick to play with me.” LittlesMadePlayFeelingsHandsKidsMovingUsedFallHoursWatchesMorningBedSickHungryGet UpDumbClockWeekendCartoonLaddersBlanketBeggingLeversHippo Author:Jordan Sonnenblick
“I didn’t want to know that the monster that lived under your bed when you were a kid not only really is there but used to have a few beers with your dad.” KnowsWantKidsUsedDadBedMonstersBeerYour Dad Author:Robin McKinley
“What kind of freak is this kid who's giggling hysterically with the girls in the neighbouring beds, each with a crush on the other for being the same age when the rest of the world seems so old?” WorldKindSeemsKidsAgeGirlBedCrushFreak Author:Melina Marchetta