Children Quote by Laura A.H. Elliott

“Wanda's sole interests are getting high and getting laid. I can't picture her wasting valuable stoner hours on murder.”

— Josh Lanyon

“Once I could see Mom for who she was, and not the mother she had failed to be, I'd be able to forgive her.…

— Rachel Sontag

“[Phoebe Broome] 'Well,' she said at last. 'You've now met my father. At his worst.' [Lord Vladimir] 'Being myself widely considered my family's most…

— Alison Sinclair

“Hart and Hope,” I muttered. “If you’re going to name your kids like that, of course they’re going to think they live in a…

— Alyxandra Harvey

“I think my mother found her mother-in-law entertaining, and in a person who entertains us, there is much we forgive.”

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“But in glimpses of herself—shouting at Steve, at Zach—she recognized her own mother, and Susan’s face burned with shame. She had never seen what…

— Elizabeth Strout

“Forgiveness in families is a mystery to me, how it comes or how it lasts.”

— Alice Munro

“I needed words because unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven. He or she has to…

— Jeanette Winterson

“It appears that time has turned that young woman, who imagined herself a romantic heroine, into something of a comic character, but I remain…

— Siri Hustvedt

“That girl could hold a grudge like a Disney witch.”

— Carlos Hernandez

“My parents think the longer the name, the more powerful the sorcerer, so they named me Cassandra Morgan Ursula Margaret Scot. You can call…

— Christine Amsden

“You know, I should start thinking on names. I have to be over two months gone. A name is important. Especially for this baby.”…

— Catherine Anderson