Children Quote by Gillian Flynn

“...maybe she just doesn't like children. Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.”

— Junot Díaz

“She has embarrassingly inquired, of her children, whether there's a woman in his life, and has rejoiced at hearing no. Not because she doesn't…

— Jonathan Franzen

“That was other thing I hated about kids; they always said the exact things that deep down you already knew, would never admit, and…

— Cecelia Ahern

“I realized how much it must suck to be a parent. You devote everything to your kids, who just end up growing up and…

— Sara Taylor

“She hadn’t ever wanted children and yet she had. She had and she did”

— Maggie O'Farrell

“...and she thought she understood, for the first time, the strange and terrible power a parent has over a child's happiness, and also how…

— Meg Mitchell Moore

“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

“the fact that her children were so obviously living their own lives was bittersweet. Their independence was what you hoped for and worked toward,…

— Wendy Wax

“He doesn't even look at her because there is too much there, and he's afraid. She is his first child, his favorite, every mistake…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“ Children are something, don't ya think? " she rarely spoke in that way, the freaky speculative way. " I mean, you fall in…

— Jebreel Nahaary

“But a mother sees her child’s shortcomings, even if she doesn’t admit to them very often.”

— Mary Campisi

“A mother knows her children’s weaknesses, even if she sometimes refuses to acknowledge them.”

— Mary Campisi