Children Quote by Han Kang

“The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even…

— Han Kang

“There was, too, a reality to her new life that her old life had lacked, and she realized with a shock that she had…

— Robin McKinley

“The fact was, however, that she was always dreaming and thinking odd things and could not herself remember any time when she had not…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Living, now, had become not simple existence that one took for granted, but a bonus, a gift, with every day that lay ahead an…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“All the while, she understood that nothing could save her from the emptiness of the years that still had to be lived. Days passed,…

— Michelle de Kretser

“When one was with her she could almost persuade one that there was something cowardly and despicable in any emotional dodging, in any refusal…

— Caroline Blackwood

“She had a nostalgia for a life she had never lived.”

— Nancy Lemann

“Up until today she'd felt as if she was surviving. Now she felt as though she was living. Everything was different.”

— Sarah Morgan

“...she still stopped when her mind moved towards real fear or dread or, worse, towards the thought that she was going to lose this…

— Colm Tóibín

“She never had to learn to live in a world that didn't necessarily want to go easy on her.”

— Jennifer duBois

“She would die feeling, because that was the way she had always lived.”

— Britt Skrabanek

“Even then, only a child, she knew she had to pretend to be someone else -- for her parents, for their customers, for everyone…

— Leslie Parry