Children Quote by Debbie Cowens

“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

“She would not risk to grow so fond of her home that it was a pain to leave it; she preferred to remain a…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“They had ganged up on her, in the claustrophobic, loving way of families, and she wanted no more of it.”

— Gregory Maguire

“But even thinking that brought on an incredible isolation, a suspicion she'd always had, she didn't belong anywhere, she was going to outlive everyone…

— Philipp Meyer

“She had reasons for believing that there was a young sister living, and her greatest desire was, to help that sister.”

— Charles Dickens

“Never again, she vowed, would she live a noisy life that killed her dreams. They were her reason for living, the only thing that…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“Half of them loved her like a daughter, and other half wanted to spread her legs, but either sort would die for her.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Somehow she’d ended up in bed with the man mothers warn their daughters to stay away from. The kind of man fathers go after…

— Tessa Bailey

“On the whole she found erring children easier to deal with than their frantic parents, confirming her conclusion that marriage did strange things to…

— Miranda Neville

“She was always daydreaming. She never wanted to live in the real world; she always seemed to be separated from other children her age.…

— Shannon A. Thompson

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay

“she hated and detested Nicholas with all the narrowness of mind and littleness of purpose worthy a descendant of the house of Squeers.”

— Charles Dickens