Journey-to-the-end-of-the-night Quote by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“There are lots of things sons shouldn’t imagine about their mothers, above all what it was like to become one.”

— Bauvard

“They took my son, they took my sense of feeling safe in the world, they took my joy, they took my freedom and they…

— Miriam Silver

“Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.”

— Joseph Heller

“in the industrial towns children went to work with their fathers and mothers, schools and doctors were only promises, a bed of one’s own…

— Howard Zinn

“They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, generous, sound, or mentally crippled, bitter,…

— Olaf Stapledon

“Word of his great strength, intelligence, and perseverance had spread even this far, and yet his youth was such that my father knew he…

— Daniel Wallace

“So you read this book and, God willing, enjoyed it. Do I have to tell you how proud a mother would be of a…

— Leah Greenburg

“It's just lucky for Father he never had any sons. He might have been forced to respect them.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“As though their daughters loving men and women meant they wanted all of them in the world. There was no way to tell their…

— Anna-Marie McLemore

“My feelings-let's hold on to this idea of them as shuffling Victorians, let's make them servants, an entire uniformed household staff- were fresh, raw,…

— Joan Wickersham

“She'd wanted to run an inn. To welcome people, to mother them. They had no children of their own, and she had a powerful…

— Louise Penny