Children Quote by Kevin Brockmeier

“It was all he could do. To make her see what she was doing, what she was ending, and to punish her if she…

— Alice Munro

“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 wanted to tell him what happened wasn't really his fault, but she knew that wasn't the way this kind of guilt worked. Intellectually,…

— Charles de Lint

“After all she’d been through, it irked her that he thought he could just look at her and know who she was. She didn't…

— Cindi Madsen

“He was watching her, testing the edges of her emotions and believing she was unaware of what he was doing. So she gave him…

— Melissa Marr

“He was doing the right thing. No matter how painful, no matter how upset she thought she was now…in the long run, ending it…

— Elisabeth Naughton

“It was a moment before she replied. And in that moment, she realized that what was gone from her was the child in her,…

— Allan Folsom

“He wanted to hear Mhisery scream, he wanted to know she was forgetting everything that was going on except what was happening between the…

— Alex Morgan

“He felt vaguely guilty tying her down. Just not guilty enough to stop.”

— Skye Warren

“It wasn’t her fault, but it was her fate, like so many single mothers, to be caught between a wistful child and his fantasies…

— Eric Ripert

“He'd thought this was the start of something. But clearly she'd changed her mind, and he felt stunned by home quickly the whole thing…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“He was not going to move on until she let go of him, of her guilt. And that was one thing she could not…

— Sarah Addison Allen