Children Quote by Amor Towles

“Afterwards I could not help admiring the discrimination of the host and hostess in the distribution of the children’s presents. The little girl, who…

— Fiodor Dostoyevski

“It was to the small serious boy that he turned for his enjoyment. He had bought the child some cheap wooden blocks, and with…

— Alan Paton

“he seemed to be blazing outside the lines of his own body, as if he were drawn in crayon by an excited five-year-old;”

— B.J. Novak

“Afterward I could not help admiring the discrimination of the host and hostess in the distribution of the children’s presents. The little girl, who…

— Leo Tolstoy

“was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. Her father had held a…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Once upon a time, a girl named September grew very tired indeed of her parents’ house, where she washed the same pink-and-yellow teacups and…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“I studied him the way I studied all the people in my life, noticing the changes of his mood, the times when the edge…

— Roland Merullo

“If looks were to be believed, he still was just a boy. Something of my age, though from his solemn quietude, I knew he…

— Tiffany McDaniel

“He was seated on the bench now. He had his left elbow on his knee, his right arm across his lap, his shoulders hunched,…

— Juliet Marillier

“Look at this one.” I picked up a small painting of a man with dark hair and a short, dark beard. He wore a…

— Laura Anderson Kurk

“In the middle of the table, against the woven cloths upon the wall, there was a chair under a canopy, and there sat a…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“He liked to feel the soft little hand clasping his own fingers, so big and coarse in comparison, and happily so strong. For in…

— George Gissing