Children Quote by Elizabeth Goudge

“Actions fueled by desperation. They were the worst kinds of decisions, because desperate people could see the error of their ways and simply not…

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

“Sometimes, you must refrain from doing things you want so bad.”

— Toba Beta

“The habit of misery had twisted these people, driving them to this paranoia. What had been diligence turned to desperation.”

— Duong Thu Huong

“When terrible things have happened to you, sometimes the promise of something good can be just as frightening.”

— Margaret Rogerson

“people saw what they wanted to, expected to, and so rarely what was.”

— Lauren Gilley

“I didn’t want this. But that meant, as far as I could tell, I didn’t want anything. And not wanting anything anymore was the…

— Lily Seabrooke

“It was a terrible refreshment, his plain way, the simple words, the absence of strategy. It made you realize how much of your life…

— Glen Duncan

“I was terribly intolerant, but they were terribly threatening to me. They were everything I was afraid of becoming.”

— Andrew Tobias

“He wondered at times whether he didn’t belong to a class of people secretly convinced they had an arrangement with fate; in return for…

— Saul Bellow

“Sometimes words were cheap. They could be powerful, but in those rare occasions like now, words meant nothing.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“When things are as bad as ever they can be you cease to mind them much. You set your teeth and battle with the…

— Georgina Howell

“I suddenly knew, in a way I’d never had before, what want meant, and why it was dangerous and greedy and huge.”

— Amy Lane