Child Quote by Camilla Way

“No matter how mean your parents are or what they're doing to you, as a kid they're all you have, and that's the way…

— Robertson Jase

“My parents are soul mates. Even when everything else in the world is wrong, I can count on them.”

— Amy Sparling

“You're good kid. But as long as I'm around, you're second best. You better learn to live with that!”

— Richard Jessup

“Deep inside, we’re all just playing at being adults. Because we’ll never be better than the people we were at six, or worse than…

— Emily Hemmer

“About how your kids aren’t really yours, they’re just these people that you try to keep an eye on, and hope you’ll all grow…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Families think they know what’s best for you. Your friends let you figure that out for yourself.”

— Kaitlin Bevis

“That's what friends do: they notice things. They're there for each other. They see what parents don't.”

— Nina LaCour

“Don't you see?" she says. "I want your life to be better than mine. That's all any parent wants.”

— Katie Crouch

“Parents are supposed to protect you, but they seem to be really, really lousy at it.”

— Hannah Harrington

“It's easier for parents to ignore, to pretend that everything's great and then do whatever they want while convinced it's something you want, too.”

— Sophie Jordan

“a mother, don’t you want your children to be better than you are?”

— E.N. Joy

“You and I are just kids. We've got the best and the worst of it in front of us”

— John Green