Children Quote by Katherine Mansfield

“As a kid, she'd always loved Halloween. A magic night. A night when anything could happen. Monsters could be real. Magic could whisper in…

— Cynthia Eden

“She secretly regarded her children as marvellous, even while she laughed down their youthful conceit and punished their naughtiness.”

— Kathleen Thompson Norris

“...and she thought she understood, for the first time, the strange and terrible power a parent has over a child's happiness, and also how…

— Meg Mitchell Moore

“There are some people in this world who have magic in them. Whose very presence makes you happier. Some of those people, it turns…

— Adam Gidwitz

“Maybe she was enjoying a moment in her life, a sliver of light, a flash memory of one of her kids, something sweet and…

— Miriam Toews

“It amazed her how much people wanted to talk at parties. And about nothing in particular.”

— J.D. Robb

“She knew she had become the strange sort of lady that she remembered noticing as a child, the sort of lady who was always…

— Jane Smiley

“The way adults could talk themselves into and out of feeling okay about something always amazed her.”

— Elizabeth Stuckey-French

“Every little thing she does is magic.”

— the police

“It must be wonderful to have the imagination of a child.”

— Nancy Naigle

“She got in and summoned all of her angst leftover from adolescence in order to slam the door as loudly as possible.”

— L.T. Vargus

“I was moved, too, to see her excited as a child--but no, for there is no childhood excitement to equal the adult journey to…

— Shirley Hazzard