Children Quote by A.S. Byatt

“And she realized that this is true. Pain has somehow transformed into pleasure, and that pleasure is better than any pain could ever be.”

— Julia Hoban

“I felt there was a lot I needed to teach her. I wanted to give her an early grounding in the basics of arithmetic…

— Jeannette Walls

“It eased the pain some when she thought about the way he’d treated her and hatred burned away the hurt.”

— Alexandra Ripley

“She liked who she was becoming, despite the pain and frustration it brought.”

— B. Barmanbek

“Emotion. Need. Desire for human contact. And it was killing her because it hurt. It hurt like all hell. And she couldn’t have it.”

— Loreth Anne White

“It hurt her to stir up these feelings, but yet she knew that that was the best part of her soul, and that that…

— Leo Tolstoy

“...and she thought she understood, for the first time, the strange and terrible power a parent has over a child's happiness, and also how…

— Meg Mitchell Moore

“Like the discovery of most things - love and religion especially - she maintained the child's arrogant wonder than no one had understood it…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“I knew too much about hurt, but I didn’t know how much more a girl could suffer until I did.”

— Roxane Gay

“If there was one thing she'd learned from her parents, it's that pleasure was sacred.”

— Stephanie Julian

“She already knew from personal experiences that life could be cruel and unfair. She also knew she had to do what it took to…

— M.V. Kasi

“She didn't give a damn about some of them, but she had grown to learn that inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain,…

— Thomas Harris