Children Quote by Anna Akhmatova

“He loved three things alone: White peacocks, evensong, old maps of America. He hated children crying, and raspberry jam with his tea, and womanish…

— Anna Akhmatova

“He loved his mother: doesn't that warm your silly, sentimental, twentieth-century heart? He loved his father. He loved his sister. He loved his niece.…

— Julian Barnes

“He envied them for the one thing that was missing from him and that they had, the importance they were able to attach to…

— hermann hesse

“From childhood he had been devoted to whatever was useless, metamorphosing the streetcar rattle of life into events of consequence, and when he began…

— Osip Mandelstam

“He was swept by a lovely, heart-warming sensation that was quite new to him; the sight of those two little girls had suddenly made…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Their old life seemed far away and remote to him now, like a dream he could not quite remember. The bright green grass, the…

— Julie Otsuka

“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

“He loved how much they loved each other. It was the thing he thought about when he woke up scared in the middle of…

— Rainbow Rowell

“He had known in times of the greatest misery or danger that his dreams of home, in which all things seemed beautiful, were in…

— Mark Helprin

“They were both fomidable, but they were also the two people he cared most about in the world-Worlds-and he just wanted to carry them…

— Laini Taylor

“He loved them deeply, but sometimes love becomes a power game between the ambitions that parents have for their children and the ambitions that…

— Witi Ihimaera

“Observing others go through them, he used to admire midlife crises, the courage and shamelessness and existential daring of them, but after he'd watched…

— Lorrie Moore