Children Quote by Laura Brodie

“Nate stares at his mother, who however looks just the same as she has always looked. It’s not only the revelation but the unexpected…

— Margaret Atwood

“He said, ‘Oh god, help her. Damn me, I deserve it, but let her live forever.’ This was the love he should have felt…

— Graham Greene

“Maybe I went a bit too far, but that’s what people want now. There’s an expectation that children be treated poorly in their literature.…

— Tony Burgess

“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

“She was grieving the loss of her youth, the closing down of possibilities as life became what it was rather than what it might…

— Kimberley Freeman

“She wished for a moment that they were all children again. It still seemed extraordinary to her, that everything had turned out the way…

— Sarah Waters

“She wondered, faintly, if it was immoral to raise children in the habit of hope. Was it not, in the end, all the harder…

— Gregory Maguire

“These kids, her multitudes, they could grow up. They could move Away. They could—they would—become new, become changed, become actual adult people in progress,…

— Laurie Frankel

“It wasn’t all a waste,” she told him over and over, holding on. Some things they got right, she was sure of that. The…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“and I discovered my limitations, and mainly I learned that there was a price to pay for that childhood (it turns out there’s no…

— David Grossman

“Like most children, she came into the world assuming everyone was good, and spent the rest of her life discovering otherwise.”

— Shanthi Sekaran

“She realized now that there was no good or bad, no right or wrong, just people fighting for their lives. Wonderful people, who lived…

— Catherine Anderson