Children Quote by Mary Szybist

“Instead she squeezes Mary’s arm and appreciates her kindness. Her understanding. This is why people have children, even when they believe the world is…

— Jessica Shattuck

“Mary feels she should have been a boy and then everything would have been so much easier. She fights against her femininity in a…

— Jessica Fellowes

“The next day, Mary walked through the rubble of their destroyed house. They had never had anything but now they had nothing. Mary realized…

— Marisa Silver

“Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now chosen her bosom…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

“Mary was fond of her own thoughts, and could amuse herself well sitting in twilight with her hands in her lap; for, having early…

— George Eliot

“...she was something more- a force, a stable, familiar force like something out of my past which kept me from whirling off into some…

— Ralph Ellison

“Mary was still thinking in terms of a dead body when Jesus confronted her with His living presence.”

— James Montgomery Boice

“I wish you could persuade Mary not to be always fancying herself ill.”

— Jane Austen

“Mary was an odd, determined person, and now she had something interesting to be determined about, she was very much absorbed, indeed.”

— Alice Ozma

“Her name was Mary, and there ends any resemblance to the mother of our Lord.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“They had never had anything but now they had nothing. Mary realized how different those two conditions were.”

— Marisa Silver

“Mary considers how the womb stirs and years for its children, even after they have grown and gone off to other lives. The womb…

— Walter Wangerin Jr