Children Quote by J. Courtney Sullivan

“She had born a child but two hours ago. She was so weak that she couldn't lift her head an inch from the pillow,…

— Betty Smith

“She harbored the childhood presumption that the truly scary things could only find her in the night.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“She thinks I’m a child who needs to be protected from the horrors of grown-ups, because she somehow forgot that the world of children…

— Sam J. Miller

“They’d have people out looking for her, and nothing makes grown-ups quite so mad as finding a child safe when they’d been scared silly…

— Jenny Wingfield

“And yet often when I was out in the park or the woods, say, with my own little girls, I'd seen something and think…

— John E. Douglas

“she leaped down the porch steps to her car. There was no thought. No planning. Just action. When you get a call that your…

— Susan Wiggs

“This love of theirs, with its reassuring domesticity and its easy silences, its permanence, has yoked Sally directly to the machinery of mortality itself.…

— Michael Cunningham

“This, you see, is the true danger of children: they are ambushes, each and every one of them. A person may look at someone…

— Seanan McGuire

“She told herself a story about a daughter in a family so hungry for a daughter that it would have eaten her alive if…

— Jonathan Franzen

“She’d decided a stranger had walked into the community and violated it, sliced into her world, taken her child away from her. Too much…

— Amanda Kyle Williams

“Jody noticed that the kid was focused on the breasts, which were defying gravity, and apparently death itself, by standing there at complete attention”

— Christopher Moore

“The initial trauma of a young child may go underground but it will return to haunt us.”

— James Garbarino