Children Quote by Jonathan Franzen

“I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.”

— Laura Whitcomb

“She and her daughter between them killed and ate as many as ten infants.”

— Stefan Klein

“The shock of her death froze something in me. The child I loved, was gone, but I kept looking for her - long after…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“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

“I know the secret that the me lying beneath the sky could not imagine: I know that would go on, that she would grow…

— John Green

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

— Kimberly McCreight

“She ate toast in bed, then reread a favorite book, taking comfort from a story where she knew the outcome would be good and…

— Sarah Mayberry

“It was funny, in her old age, to look back and see for how short a period her nest had NOT been empty. Relatively…

— Anne Tyler

“A half-drowned stranger was more exciting than a bruised and exhausted daughter. She could be dying for all they'd care, she thought angrily, picking…

— Vivien Alcock

“Oh my God, you are a child. If we leave you alone here, you'll freeze to death, you'll starve to death''. And so on.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“They say a girl with an ill-fated mother is doomed to follow in her footsteps.”

— K.X. Song

“I don't know what happened to your parents or why they did what they did. But in all the world, I could have wished…

— John Stephens