Children Quote by Isabel Allende

“It had come as a relief when she had been forced to go into the hospital in Emporia, where she could be given drugs…

— Nancy Pickard

“Death had to take her little by little, bit by bit, dragging her along to the bitter end of the miserable existence she'd made…

— Émile Zola

“[About the main character approaching death in old age, observed by her husband . . .] He saw that she had already laid down…

— Michael D. O'Brien

Living to an extraordinary age, she mourned them all equally as she buried her husband and, one by one, her children. In this suffering…

— Martine Leavitt

“She rocks alone in her old rocking chair That little old lady with no-one to care She lives with the memory of a youth…

— Peppi Hilton

“She was moved to a profound but pleasurable melancholy by the evidence that human life is brief and long survived by the material things…

— Helen Hooven Santmyer

“Incessantly, it seemed, life plagued her with responsibilities, made her fall in love, ripped away any consolation she might find. Sisters and parents, brothers…

— Meg Rosoff

“And she learned - freshly, scorchingly - of the privacy of sorrow. It was as though she had been escorted through a door into…

— Elizabeth Strout

“But for reasons she would never be able to articulate to anyone, herself included, she took a few steps more into the despairing darkness…

— Casey Fisher

“And yet, death was still there, everywhere. We had adopted her. She lived in us and we in her. She’d emerge from our red…

— Mahi Binebine

“She loved the cemetery because it was quiet and beautiful. Grown-ups argued so much when they were alive. No one argued when they were…

— Dianna Hardy

“With life came loss. The war and the years since had taught her that. There's be sadness in her life to come, as well…

— Jackie French