Children Quote by Anna Kavan

“A thing that had always struck her about the child was that he seemed so collected. She had never seen him cry. And now…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“There is something deeply unsettling about a child crying insincerely.”

— Emma Forrest

“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

“Pain was always cruel, but it was cruelest when it came to children. Sometimes she would see a child she recognized from a prior…

— Monica Starkman

“The tears of those who never cry, the calm, the levelheaded ones, are terrible to see. She seemed to be split or torn by…

— John Crowley

“But her tears wouldn't come. And right now, more than anything, she wanted to bellow her rage like an irate newborn forced to leave…

— Kate Breslin

“The little girl’s eyes were squeezed tightly shut and she bore the angry expression unique to babies who had just been wrenched from the…

— Kathryn Hughes

“When the final moment came, signalled to him by the dramatic stoppage of her loud, rasping breathing (whereas their son had departed so quietly,…

— Yann Martel

“A short, quick gasp escapes her trembling lips, spots dancing in her vision. Hunching until she is small, silent the scream remains, as blackness…

— Michelle Connor

“She was crying, silently, holding my arm, crying. I let her cry a while, held her close, felt her snot and tears on my…

— Claire North

“When angered she had a terrible eye which could blanch the skin off a bad child as easily as if he were a boiled…

— John Steinbeck

“There she stood, hiding; the mother without child, the voiceless woman full of anger. Her smoked nails hammered her evaporated heart snivelling in the…

— Laura Gentile