Extended Reading

First Daughter quotes

  • James Lansome: Brazil's the only country named after a tree. Bagged lettuce that you buy at the store, they wash it in chlorine.

    Samantha Mackenzie: The little parallelogram above your top lip is called a filtrum. Five years, half a decade, is a lustrum.

    James Lansome: Every state in the Union has a town called Springfield. Male turtles grunt, female turtles hiss.

    Samantha Mackenzie: The difference between a fruit and a vegetable - off the vine fruit ripens, a vegetable just rots.

    James Lansome: Spread your arms just like this, middle finger to middle finger, it's equivalent to your height.

    Samantha Mackenzie: Distance from your wrist to your elbow is the length of your foot.

    James Lansome: Your ears and nose never stop...

    James LansomeSamantha Mackenzie: Growing

    James Lansome: Right.

  • Samantha Mackenzie: All I want is normal, Mia.