Children Quote by Jeanette Winterson

“There was something about him she wanted to learn, grow into, and hide in, where she could turn away from being an adult.”

— Michael Ondaatje

“She had eloped in a trance, in haste, her docility a mask, a thousand hers revolting within herself and toward him. Yet coexisting with…

— Edna O'Brien

“The mother in her believed that the love she had for her daughter was safe from the mayhem of her mind, because it lived…

— Lisa Genova (Author

“She closed her eyes, silently continuing the pleas that she be given words that might soothe, words that would begin the healing of bereaved…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“…how overwhelming the feelings of love and terror, the desperate desire to protect. How much stronger would those feelings be if it were her…

— Kate Atkinson

“Something happened to you, they discovered, when you were given the unconditional love and trust of a child. You wanted to try to deserve…

— Lisa Kleypas

“She could hear in the traffic a white sound that threw veils across the present and allowed her to hold the scene to her…

— Mark Helprin

“Like the discovery of most things - love and religion especially - she maintained the child's arrogant wonder than no one had understood it…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“His ministrations were tender, his eyes hooded as he seemed to withhold certain emotions from her. She allowed him his secrets, and took what…

— Jennifer Probst

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

— Thomm Quackenbush

“A thing that had always struck her about the child was that he seemed so collected. She had never seen him cry. And now…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Horribly aware of what was happening, conscious, as she had never been before, that it was possible both to love her mother more than…

— Caroline Moorehead