Children Quote by J.L. Murphey

“When she looked at me she saw a child surrounded by flames, screaming. And that must have been hard for her.”

— Miriam Toews

“She was a wild, wicked slip of a girl. She burned too brightly for this world.”

— Emily Brontë

“Wherever she looked, she saw fires. They covered the earth like fallen stars, and like the stars there was no end to them.”

— George R.R. Martin

“The world could burn around her, the cities turn to dust, the cries of a hundred thousand fill the air, and she would get…

— Kameron Hurley

“...there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some…

— Sherman Alexie

“Why, after all, did she do these things? Why seek pinnacles and stand drenched in fire? Might it consume her anyhow! Burn her to…

— Virginia Woolf

“She’d never seen fire as an enemy, not until it crept like a snake along the grass to where she lay bleeding, not until…

— Sarah Fine

“Even then, only a child, she knew she had to pretend to be someone else -- for her parents, for their customers, for everyone…

— Leslie Parry

“How was it possible that men, women, and children are being burned and that the world kept silent?”

— Elie Wiesel

“Children were the world as it was meant to be - and they were a light within the world. But for every light, there…

— Dean Koontz

“When the flames came up her eyes burned out there like gatelamps to another world. A world burning on the shore of an unknowable…

— Cormac McCarthy

“She had passed through the fire and emerged stronger, because something that had burned to ash could never be burned again.”

— Lucy Gordon