Parenting Quote by Markus Zusak

“Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces. Each half was glowing, and beating under all that white.”

— Markus Zusak

“A longing for the extraordinary had grabbed ahold of her and was burning her up inside, so hot and fierce that her heart had…

— D. Anne Love

“Then her hands rose and rested on him, the tears cool on his face, congealing, the white of her clean as the silent snow…

— Diana Gabaldon

“She was carrying with her, the cold. She was holding on to that icy stone of grief. It had been there all along, sitting…

— Kali Wallace

“He saw it in her eyes. The anguish, the frustration. The terrible nothing that clawed inside and sought to smother her. She knew. It…

— Brandon Sanderson

“She felt it again—that familiar shiver, as if a psychotic snowman had crept up behind her and was breathing down her neck. She turned,…

— Rick Riordan

“Oh, my poor child.” I felt the touch of Miss Winter’s hand on my shoulder, and while I cried over the corpses of my…

— Diane Setterfield

“It started at her mouth with just a wobble, a tremble of her lips. Then her hands joined in, fingers shaking until she had…

— Kennedy Ryan

“There she stood, hiding; the mother without child, the voiceless woman full of anger. Her smoked nails hammered her evaporated heart snivelling in the…

— Laura Gentile

“She loved his laughter. She loved that he faced the world with a reckless smile on his scarred face. Her heart crashed against her…

— Anna Campbell

“I looked out at the street beyond the overhang. The rain was coming in at gray angled streaks. One of my hands moved to…

— Barry Eisler

“The shock of her death froze something in me. The child I loved, was gone, but I kept looking for her - long after…

— Vladimir Nabokov