Jason Reynolds Quotes

Baking can be done with a few simple ingredients, so it's about simplicity and nostalgia - people are reminded of their childhood.

I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.

I remember the Washington in which I grew up as a genuine small town. Maybe this is true for everyone, that we all feel that the times in which we grew up were simpler, less complex.

I have the best memories as a kid eating ice cream. It was a family tradition that I had with my father. It was nice.

Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want.

We used to wash our hair in buckets and survive on toasted sandwiches, chocolates and soup.

I don't yearn to be a child again.

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

Smell is so powerful, you know. My grannies would both bake things like shortbreads and cookies. I think whenever I smell those kinds of things it really takes me back to my childhood.

If I see a roll of Bubble Tape, a bag of Haribo Gold-Bears or a pouch of green-apple Big League Chew, I'm eleven again.

When I was young, I ate Ho Hos every day.

I baked the coffee cake recipe from 'The Joy of Cooking' over and over again when I was a kid.

I used to live on one candy bar a day - it cost a nickel. I always remember the candy bar was called Payday. That was my payday. And that candy bar tasted so good, at night I would take one bite, and it was so beautiful.

I remember being with my mum eating marmalade on toast watching 'Inspector Gadget,' 'Sharky and George,' 'The Pink Panther,' and 'Thundercats,' stuff like that. Those were the days - no idea how brutal the world is.

Everyone has a favourite cake, pastry, pudding or pie from when they were kids.

My mom used to bake so much when I was a child, and I have a big sweet tooth.

I grew up to the smell of doughnuts, scones, pies, and bread.

Back in my school days, when I would scuttle off with a cheese roll, an apple, a box of Sun-Maid raisins and a Penguin bar, my packed lunches were reassuringly predictable. And I liked it that way.

Bread and football - that's how I grew up.

Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.

And true love waits In haunted attics And true love lives On lollipops and crisps

When I was a kid, all I liked were books and chocolate.