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“I remember when my daughter was just learning her letters. She was playing in her room and came downstairs to ask me, “Momma, what…

— Annie Leonard

“The intriguing thing about playing Scrabble is that as soon as the board is set up in front of me, I don't know any…

— Julie Schumacher

“Junior, stop being orner.” It’s what Mama used to say to us when we were little, and I say it to Junior out of…

— Jesmyn Ward

In every language, the first word after "Mama!" that every kid learns to say is "Mine!" A system that doesn't allow ownership, that doesn't…

— Frank Zappa

“I thought about this for days, just as I thought of the special-ed teacher I met in Pittsburgh. "You know," I said, "I hear…

— David Sedaris

“Mama wasn’t Mama anymore, she was Mother, usually followed by a “pallease!”

— Katherine Allred

“Everything depends on One Word : "Maktub" !”

— Paulo Coelho

“It’s a funny thing, because I think that my mother and I may finally be speaking the same language. But somehow, now words don’t…

— Gayle Forman

“Do you only speak in questions?" "Do you only speak in SAT words?”

— Megan Erickson

“Can you spell everything?" asked Milo admiringly. "Just about," replied the bee with a hint of pride in his voice. "You see, years ago…

— Norton Juster

When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the…

— Katherine Dunn

“Q’eeng had just attempted in the third dialect the traditional rightward schism greeting of “I offer you the bread of life,” but his phrasing…

— John Scalzi