Crime Quote by Jess C. Scott

“That child of hell wasn't human. Nothing lived in him but fear and hatred.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“No one wanted to talk to a mother whose only child had just killed herself.”

— Kimberly McCreight

“Being a parent is joyful, but it's also haunted by the specter of loss.”

— Richard Beck

“It’s a monstrous thing, Hadley, to be a parent. To see your child hurt and be powerless to mend it.”

— Eliza Maxwell

“It was Mom whom I could not live without. Fathers, I was convinced, could not replicate the emotional security and nurturing that mothers provided.”

— Leslie Gilbert-Lurie

“There was something almost sacred in the self-sacrifice that I felt was required of me as a mother, caring for this child.”

— Judith Warner

“It stung, the notion that my child belonged more to her mother than to me, but I learned to accept it.”

— Shulem Deen

“He was filled with horror at the thought of what a child becomes, and what the dead must feel watching the change from innocence…

— Graham Greene

“An act so vile, even unforgivable from a mother.”

— Soroosh Shahrivar

“It must be one of the worst things in the world, to see your child revealed as a selfish little sadist.”

— Charlaine Harris

“with the staring lack of empathy that belongs to murderers and small children.”

— Laini Taylor

“Many parents had grown wary of confronting their children for fear of being denounced by them, but not my father.”

— Martha Hall Kelly