Quote by Gary Shteyngart

“Small children will talk to anyone, once the guard of shyness has fallen, and they have, like the elderly, a sense of immediacy, a…

— Susan Hill

“The odd thing about Mama was that she liked to think of herself as a doomy sort of person, but there was a natural…

— Eva Rice

“So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead…

— Nicole Krauss

“Now, I've had boys of my own, and I know boys aren't that way. They don't learn, or grow, or have manners when you're…

— Robin Hobb

“Little children gladly accept even the strangest stories that others tell them, because they lack either the context or the confidence to doubt. They…

— Orson Scott Card

“The mother smiled at his earnestness - smiled without the least misgiving; for, to her apprehension, the youth was still a boy, to wonder…

— E.D.E.N. Southworth

“She might be frightened out of her wits and confused as hell, but she was a Southern girl, born and bred. Mama would fly…

— Tonya Burrows

“The real orphans are words, always stumbling about to capture what must be said. And here they go again.”

— Nathan Leslie

“One of the plainest truths about both towns and individuals is that they usually don’t turn into what we tell them to be, but…

— Fredrik Backman

“The boys exchanged uneasy glances. It was their first experience with the inexorable logic of women, which is overwhelming even, or perhaps especially, when…

— John Steinbeck

“The boys progress and advance, and the girls cling to a time that was never ours.”

— Dot Hutchison

“The children either become like their parents or else they flee in the opposite direction.”

— Elizabeth Chadwick