Children Quote by Alice Sebold

“So he knew terrible things- even the most terrible things-couldn't stop the world from turning. Life went on. And he made a promise to…

— Matt Haig

The sense that in his mother's view, he had let down his family just by being who he was... was a failure of acceptance…

— J.R. Ward

“He was a shitty husband, a cruel and distant father, and had absolutely no empathy for other human beings.”

— Alafair Burke

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

— Philip Roth

“That got him thinking about his life. It seemed a bitter, pointless sort of life now. No one was any better off because of…

— Joe Abercrombie

“In so many ways, his family's life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another...They were things for which it…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“[He] didn't view the less idyllic chapters of his life as the results of "mistakes." He didn't believe in mistakes. He believed in a…

— Lisa Jewell

“He felt people were never intentionally beastly or malicious, but they were pompous and foolish; awful decisions were made by men divorced from their…

— Glen David Gold

The sense that in his mother’s view, he had let down his family just by being who he was… was a failure of acceptance…

— J.R. Ward

“[...] he felt that he too was only a baby, with the chance to live without shame, without the need for consolation for a…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“In so many ways he’d lived like he would live forever. He’d taken his time for granted on one hand and simultaneously not fully…

— Tim McBain

“He sat there among them, listened to the buzz of their conversation. He was captivated by them. In that racket every voice touched a…

— Deszö Kosztolányi