Family Quote by Heather Gudenkauf

“she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl…

— Betty Smith

“And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind of world, one that she knew in…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“I think repressing what happened is what saved me in my childhood. I was able to use my imagination to create happy events, but…

— Erin Merryn

“She felt as though she could reach out to that little girl and pull her through the years. Look, she’d say. Look who you’re…

— Becky Chambers

“She reflects on the girl she had been in this place, and the things she had to do in order to survive. For a…

— Susan Wiggs

“Those years ago when I was down in that basement, I wish I had known that on the other side of the world, there…

— Kresley Cole

“…the little girls wore a grave, troubled expression, as if sorrow was a new experience to them.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“The little girl’s eyes were squeezed tightly shut and she bore the angry expression unique to babies who had just been wrenched from the…

— Kathryn Hughes

“Young as she is, the stuff / Of her life is a great cargo, and some of it heavy: / I wish her a lucky passage.”

— Richard Wilbur

“Little girls are kept away from the things that would make them strong, in the name of protection and propriety.”

— Sara Donati

“That girl was gone forever, and all that was left was a product of the place that had taught her to fear the bright…

— Alexandra Bracken

“When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs. She always knew the way.…

— Roman Payne