Children Quote by Alice McDermott

“She had an image of her unborn child, its head up under her heart, its ear pressed to the wall of her flesh, treading…

— Alice McDermott

“That is just what baby did not know, and in spite of the kiss, he made up his mind to cry. It was very…

— Pansy

“It was simply what you did: you made conversation in elevators, complimented small children in strollers, looked up from your magazine to greet the…

— Alice McDermott

“There was such emotion in his eyes now, she felt as though her insides were pressing on her ribcage and twisting in her middle.…

— Katharine Ashe

“Once, Lacy had been present at the birth of an infant that was missing half its heart. The family had known their child would…

— Jodi Picoult

“When had she stopped being a child? The first time a guy had whistled at her out of a car window when she was…

— Leigh Bardugo

“... she looked at the sky and wondered where her baby’s soul was now: was it following her, or floating aloft yonder among the…

— Anton Chekhov

“as if this girl were the converging halves of a broken fate, setting face, in sleep, toward itself in time, as an image and…

— Djuna Barnes

“Not a soul,” Mary Keane said to her husband, the wind lifting her words, tossing them gently back over her shoulder, the way it…

— Alice McDermott

“When she had him along, the world looked different, and she liked the way she saw things she'd never seen before. . . But…

— Ruth Ozeki

“She looked from her son to Bill and back to her son again, touched by wonder that was mostly simple perplexity but partly a…

— Stephen King

“When had she stopped being a child? The first time a guy whistled at her out of a car window when she was walking…

— Leigh Bardugo