Children Quote by Debbie Cowens

“Is there anything more solid, more right, than knowing you child was where she ought to be?”

— Jodi Picoult

“I had no illusions that now, in some final and dramatic flash of revelation, we would understand one another. We were done. It was…

— Dani Shapiro

“What did she care what became of this world when her loved ones were dead and gone?”

— Allie Burke

“She told herself a story about a daughter in a family so hungry for a daughter that it would have eaten her alive if…

— Jonathan Franzen

“They’d have people out looking for her, and nothing makes grown-ups quite so mad as finding a child safe when they’d been scared silly…

— Jenny Wingfield

“She's fainted, or dead,' I thought: 'so much the better. Far better that she should be dead, than lingering a burden and a misery-maker…

— Emily Brontë

“I originally feared she might be dead, which felt like a sealed book that I would never be able to read. To have a…

— Janet Louise Stephenson

“Most of her feelings she deemed insubstantial and she sent them packing with barely a nod of recognition. But her feelings for her daughter…

— Cathleen Schine

“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

“Was it too much to ask that she find someone who wanted the same things in life as she did--a home, someone to lean…

— Christie Craig

“They were a mother's words, words I would say to my own daughter if I were concerned for her”

— Tracy Chevalier