Children Quote by Kate Chopin

“At a very early period she had apprehended the instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.”

— Kate Chopin

“She felt vulnerable and alone. Once again, she felt that life was not treating her as it treated other people - it gave her…

— Paulo Coelho

She saw herself moving through another life, an exotic, difficult, satisfying life.

— Kim Edwards

From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books…

— Sebastian Faulks

“But when, from the midst of the printed page, there suddenly sprang out at her these words: 'Here I stand; I can no other,'…

— Anna Kavan

“In spite of her desire for a contained universe, her life felt scattered, full of many small moments, without great purpose. That is what…

— Michael Ondaatje

She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized…

— Abraham Verghese

This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired,…

— Kim Edwards

But she had felt since childhod that her life would n ot be ordinary. A moment would come- she would know it when she…

— Kim Edwards

Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in…

— Paule Marshall

“Her upbringing had given her an independence of mind that made her more like a girl of today than one of her own time…

— Philip Pullman

...it occurred to her how some people continued through no design of one's own to be in one's life while others might initially enter…

— Susan Minot