Babies Quote by Kathryn Hughes

“And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind of world, one that she knew in…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“Good and bad, he was taken for granted; she was much more lenient to him than to any of the children. She welcomed the…

— Kathleen Thompson Norris

“Her rage flopped awkwardly away like a duck. She felt as she had when her cold, fierce parents had at last grown sick and…

— Lorrie Moore

“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

“There she stood, hiding; the mother without child, the voiceless woman full of anger. Her smoked nails hammered her evaporated heart snivelling in the…

— Laura Gentile

“…the little girls wore a grave, troubled expression, as if sorrow was a new experience to them.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“And then she grew uneasy and full of gloom and thought to herself that if the child were joy yet was it a new…

— Pearl S. Buck

“A thing that had always struck her about the child was that he seemed so collected. She had never seen him cry. And now…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“She was reduced to the dependency of an infant, too terrified of life itself to find solace anywhere but in the familiar succoring breast…

— Dean Koontz

“She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies. Men looked at her and wanted to fill her up with babies…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The note of almost unbearable irritation sounding through the deliberately calm tone in which he has just spoken penetrates her child's heart like a…

— Anna Kavan

“And the poor lady, so small in her black satin, shrivelled up and sallow, with her funny corkscrew curls, took the little boy on…

— W. Somerset Maugham