Children Quote by C.J. Box

“And then she grew uneasy and full of gloom and thought to herself that if the child were joy yet was it a new…

— Pearl S. Buck

“She loved the library and was anxious to worship the lady in charge. But the librarian had other things on her mind. She hated…

— Betty Smith

“The world was not a place she could enjoy like any normal child; it lacked excitement and stimulation for her. She had been deadened…

— Cathy Glass

“The fact that they were there, that everything they owned wasn’t enough somehow, disturbed her, suggesting a bottomlessness to certain kinds of unhappiness. She”

— Matthew Thomas

“There were thousands of children just like her in the world. She had walked through the fire and come out the other side scorched,…

— J.L. Murphey

“They weren’t like dolls, because dolls had no feelings. Kids had feelings, just not any remotely related to yours.”

— Sam Lipsyte

“Stories of her children when they were small, their round little bodies barely containing their personalities, which bloomed and glittered and melted into her.”

— Erica Bauermeister

“And we all know, too, that those words really don’t damage children much. They didn’t damage us when we were young. It was evil…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Once there was a certain lady . . . And she had no children, and generally no happiness either. And so first she cried…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

“She secretly regarded her children as marvellous, even while she laughed down their youthful conceit and punished their naughtiness.”

— Kathleen Thompson Norris

“She did not especially appreciate children either, but could be kind to them when they were silent.”

— Gordon Dahlquist

“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