Quote by Harper Lee

“How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but they did. They've done it before and they did it tonight and…

— Harper Lee

They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.

— Harper Lee

“You know, when children are silent and proud, and they try to keep back their tears when they are in great trouble and suddenly…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“They always wanted to do it for the children. But they never do, turns out, and the children go home crying, not having received…

— Douglas Wilson

“For years the tears fell without touching the ground. On this night they hit the floor.”

— Mary Ruefle

“It is so heartbreaking what we do to children in this world; how they are destroyed.”

— Bryant McGill

“People wiped away their tears. That was the American way. Grieve, and then get up and fight. These people were ready to do just…

— Nicholas Sansbury Smith

“Weep for what little things could make them glad.”

— Robert Frost

“Why were children the only ones who ever got to melt down?”

— Yūko Tsushima

“Children did this. They sensed when there was something controversial or sensitive and they pushed and pushed like tiny prosecutors.”

— Liane Moriarty

“I used to feel sorry for them, or sad. Not so much any more. Now I wonder what they did, and I know what…

— Chris Adrian

“There is only one thing children find harder to hold back than tears, and that is joy.”

— Karl Ove Knausgård