Children Quote by Kim Edwards

“What the future held for her she didn't know. Of two things only she was certain. There would be children-her own or other people's-and…

— Alice Dalgliesh

“She was thinking about the way she’d always taken for granted that the world had certain people in it, either central to her days…

— Emily St. John Mandel

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading.”

— Betty Smith

“She had no one in the world. Her whole world, what was left of it, was here, and there was no way to get…

— Robert Goolrick

“part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her.”

— Rick Riordan

“It felt like there was a whole world living inside her. I didn't know anything about that world.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even…

— Han Kang

“He had not known a world that did not have her in it. Yet now he was going to discover just that.”

— Shane K.P. O'Neill

“He did not know a world that did not have her in it. Yet now he was going to discover just that.”

— Shane K.P. O'Neill

“All the while, she understood that nothing could save her from the emptiness of the years that still had to be lived. Days passed,…

— Michelle de Kretser

“She learned a lot and some of the things she learned were hard to accept. She was made to realize once and for all…

— Mary Norton

“It baffled her, the world. She did not want to leave it yet.”

— Elizabeth Strout