Children Quote by Louise Doughty

“Sometimes we need to remove ourselves. To occasionally stand away from the noise. To silence the chatter that never sleeps. To take a moment…

— A.Y. Greyson

“No child understands how well she knows her parents' faces, how much they tell her without speaking; that language is writ to deep she…

— Catherine Lacey

“But the longing within him had grown even greater, the overpowering need to be alone. Locked in an empty room, entirely unwitnessed, silent and…

— Philip K. Dick

“One moment of unwelcomed silence is more disheartening than a lifetime of incessant screams. And the silence deafens me.”

— Scott Hildreth

“There's a frightful muteness that dwells at the center of all unspeakable things, and I had found my way into it.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Some days my thoughts refuse to silence themselves, and I feel like I'm walking around in darkness reaching for a stretched hand. I sometimes…

— Terry a O'Neal

“She could not remember ever being truly happy in her adult life; her years with her mother had been built up devotedly around small…

— Shirley Jackson

“I had often marked the contrast between their almost ludicrous gaiety and my lonely existence, sometimes with scorn, sometimes with a feeling of deprivation.…

— Hermann Hesse

“The difficulty is that I have no mouth through which I can speak. I can’t make myself understood, not in your world, the world…

— Margaret Atwood

“senses could be dulled, and you might withdraw into yourself, feeling numb and empty.”

— Burgess,, Wes

“It was a level of obliviousness, or perhaps denial, that was scarcely imaginable, and yet it was real. It was as if I had…

— Lionel Dahmer

“It was an oddly satisfying idea to feel bereft as I left my mother this time. We only feel bereft when we’re deprived of…

— Laura Anderson Kurk