Babies Quote by Melina Marchetta

“We speak in hushed voices, so as not to wake our memories, the things we've done, the things we'll continue to do, for fear…

— Daniel Grayson

“I saw something I could never forget. I saw lifetimes of acknowledgement, fear, wisdom, questioning, and understanding in a child's eye. It was the…

— Shannon A. Thompson

“However, I will always remember those few hours, and the days of worry leading up to those few hours, and the years and years…

— Anonymous

“It's that undefined something we're really afraid of-the flicker of movement we don't quite catch out of the corner of our eye, the bad…

— Connie Willis

“In just one moment I had emerged from a world of dark green, almost black, to a world of bright blue and light sunshine.…

— Margot Berwin

“Every day our life was full of thoughts of the horrible present, and even our own death.”

— Diane Ackerman

“with my fucking suave manners and knowitall, eyes, and mind full of fantasy - the Me! that horror that keeps me conscious, in this…

— Allen Ginsberg

“Dreams were so irrational, so gray with a nameless terror . . . and yet, too, so haunting and beautiful.”

— Jack Kerouac

“It’s already clear to me how much of life is forgotten even as it happens. Most of it. The unregarded present spooling away from…

— Ian McEwan

“Am I mistaken to think that even back then, in the vivid present, the fullness of life stirred our emotions to an extraordinary extent?…

— Philip Roth

“We're not afraid of the dark. Our nightmares were born on sultry, summer afternoons.”

— Laura Wiess

“it seems to me that this itself was the disaster I foresaw, a common enough disaster for most infants these days: that I was…

— Yaa Gyasi