Children Quote by Chris Cleave

“I said you. Take you, my daughter. Because I saw the tall man see you as a human child, not pieces of eight.”

— Toni Morrison

“She understood children, and knew that they were adults handicapped by a humiliating disguise and had their adult qualities within them.”

— Rebecca West

“I watched the kids walking past us on the sidewalk. They looked pretty much like any other kids. They were dressed for each other.…

— Robert B. Parker

“They were the clothes of a child, and he was a child no longer.”

— John Connolly

“They were with their mother, and so they were acting like children.”

— Emma Straub

“We were children then. We are allowed to make mistakes, to figure out who we wish to be.”

— Sarah J. Maas

They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Suddenly, as they walked with their buckets, it was not the child in each face that she sought, but the Wonder that had raised…

— Enid Bagnold

“What are you talking about?’ Cora said. Veda had a sudden image of her standing over a small child with her hands on her…

— Jessica Lave

“It was a moment before she replied. And in that moment, she realized that what was gone from her was the child in her,…

— Allan Folsom

“She wished for a moment that they were all children again. It still seemed extraordinary to her, that everything had turned out the way…

— Sarah Waters

“I wasn't exactly good with children. I wasn't bad with them, as such. I just wasn't around them much and, because of that, when…

— Kristen Ashley