Children Quote by Carl Hiaasen

“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

“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

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

— Emma Forrest

“There is only one thing children find harder to hold back than tears, and that is joy.”

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“...little girls are raised on fairy tales. No one ever tells you that sad things stay sad, some people die angry and unforgiven, and…

— Lisa Unger

“Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too. He found that he had started to…

— John Steinbeck

“in that moment, she could feel a bridge stretching between her as she was right then – giggling and gasping in a spaceship kitchen…

— Becky Chambers

“Sara went to it and sat down. She was a queer child, as I have said before, and quite unlike other children. She seldom…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Children were not pets, not furniture, not items put on earth to bring pleasure to people who owned them, she raged to herself.”

— C.J. Box

She put her head down on the table and cried all the tears that she knew she should have cried in the past year…

— Maeve Binchy

“And no one ever told her anything at all. Tears and shouted questions got her nothing but pitying looks and new dolls. While the…

— Amanda McCabe

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

— Mikhail Bulgakov