Selfish motives Quote by Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Both their attention and their neglect were equally intolerable. His world had become complicated and interesting and magical. Theirs was mundane and domestic. They…

— Lev Grossman

“...he was so horribly unhuman, that one shuddered to think that tender women and fair children must, of necessity, confess to fellowship of kind…

— Marcus Clarke

“The world as first seen by the child becomes his lifelong standard of excellence, mindless of the fact he is admiring the ruins of…

— William Stolzenburg

“It seemed to him that he both knew too much to imagine [the child's] simplicity and too little to disembroil his tangle.”

— Henry James

“It seemed to Jack that if an ordinary human being, his own son, no one particular, could have this purity of mind, then perhaps…

— Sebastian Faulks

“Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.”

— Joseph Heller

“In some ways, he was just like the rest of us: lonely, ambitious, a son, a father, a lover, never truly content. Where he…

— David A. Goodman

“Only a child expects life to be just; it's a man's part to stand by the consequences of his deeds.”

— Mary Stewart

“Genuine love for a child, it seems to me, must include a desire for his maturity and ultimately his independence. WAtching a personality unfold…

— Sydney J. Harris

“He was swept by a lovely, heart-warming sensation that was quite new to him; the sight of those two little girls had suddenly made…

— Leo Tolstoy

“We all have ideas, sometimes good ones, not to mention the gift of emotional turmoil that every childhood provides.”

— Ann Patchett

“You were never so acutely aware of your own flaws as you were in the presence of your child. Why was that?”

— Lisa Unger