Childhood Quote by Juliet Marillier

I ran to the children's room: their door was ajar, I saw they had never laid down, though it was past midnight; but they…

— Emily Bronte

“Adults who were hurt as children inevitably exhibit a peculiar strength, a profound inner wisdom, and a remarkable creativity and insight. Deep within them…

— Wayne Muller

“Children were the foot wedged in the closing door, the glimmer of hope that in reincarnation there would be some house to go to,…

— Abraham Verghese

“The door, indeed, stood open as before; but the windows were still shuttered, the chimneys breathed no stain into the bright air, there sounded…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

...she felt, with her hand on the nursery door, that community of feeling with other people which emotion gives as if the walls of…

— Virginia Woolf

“They stood in silence, looking at floorboards and corners of cornices and other such insignificances, their curiosity and compassion at the ready. They were…

— Diane Setterfield

“It was a communion of pain, and no one in the city could pretend not to have heard it. The women had made witnesses…

— Laila Lalami

“The day on which he was buried was beautifully sunny. No matter where one looked, the sky had a clean-washed appearance. There was not…

— Der Nister

“The oth­ers went up­stairs, a slow unwilling pro­ces­sion. If this had been an old house, with creak­ing wood, and dark shad­ows, and heav­ily pan­elled…

— Agatha Christie

“The children looked like remnants of themselves. Spectral. Some were naked to the waist.Many of them had sores on their faces. None had shoes.…

— Colum McCann

“It was as if a door had opened somewhere. Or possibly a series of doors. There was a sensation as of a breeze blowing…

— Susanna Clarke

“When you opened the door a bell tinkled, but just once, high and clear and small in the neat obscurity above the door, as…

— William Faulkner