Little Boy Quote by Hannah Kent

“It was difficult to understand that he would not come into the bungalow again and that when he got up in the morning she…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“But once he saw that swing and that house, then he knew. He knew he wasn’t supposed to die. He was supposed to come…

— Katja Millay

“He would have been half-hanged, taken down alive, castrated, his genitals stuffed in his mouth, his stomach slit open, and his intestines taken out…

— John Broadbent

“That night she admitted her compulsion to escape. She was worried that if my father drowned, or I disappeared, she would be left with…

— Simon Van Booy

“going to be hanged.' As he came nearer, he saw that the two men were his brothers, who had turned robbers; so he said,…

— Jacob Grimm

“They hanged my mother. I watched her body swing from the lower branches of a silk cotton tree. She had committed a crime for…

— Maryse Condé

“Imagining the end of things, when you are a child, is perhaps impossible. The thin child, despite the war that was raging, was more…

— A.S. Byatt

“I have seen him climbing a tree while she stood beneath him in unutterable anguish; she had to let him climb, for boys must…

— J.M. Barrie

“As soon as he had left the room and walked into the air, he knew that he would never return and for the first…

— Peter Ackroyd

“He looked at her then, and she could see he wasn't afraid. "Nothing really dies as long as it's not forgotten," he said.”

— L.J. Smith

“He woke early the next morning. It was still cool, but he opened the window and, leaning on the ledge, looked down at the…

— Rupert Thomson

“He put his shoes over the red stone footprints and when he came to the last one on the path, fell to the ground…

— John Murray