Children Quote by Kate Atkinson

“On the one hand, Sylvie loves the feeling of being like everybody else... on the other hand when she feels most like a freak…

— Barbara Gowdy

“Small boys were a mystery to Sylvie. The satisfaction they gained from throwing sticks or stones for hours on end, the obsessive collection of…

— Kate Atkinson

“Then and now, beautiful, I’ll take you any way you come to me … Any way. I love this Sylvie, I loved that Sylvie.…

— Kristen Ashley

“Stories of her children when they were small, their round little bodies barely containing their personalities, which bloomed and glittered and melted into her.”

— Erica Bauermeister

“Elle got up and walked over to the window. She put her hands up on the clear glass and surveyed the vast gardens below.…

— Peggy M. McAloon

“Fran panicked. “We’re all doomed!” I looked at her and couldn’t help but smirk she seemed to lighten my mood, whilst blackening her own.…

— Sophie Wilkinson

“Despite the way she rallied, the haunted look in her eyes was enough to break him, as lost and lonely as an abandoned child’s.”

— Katherine McIntyre

“Frankie always felt awkward around kids. Always. It wasn’t that she didn’t like them; she just never knew what to do with them.”

— Marina Adair

“time. They’re gonna like us. We have the same last name.” “What?” Reenie said. But the bell rang right then, and the girls rushed…

— Brenda Novak

“But there was something strange about her that made me think she was "somebody." I don't mean her poise, the cool manner in which…

— Anne Rice

“She didn’t care if other children grew up to the Wiggles or Dan Zanes. Hers would adore Sondheim.”

— Maria Semple

“In a wacky way, she felt as if they belonged to each other. Two stray, bad-ass loners who didn't know how to handle people.”

— Jennifer Probst