Children Quote by Miranda Neville

“She was old to know that marriages were like children. They had lives of their own and didn't necessarily act the way you thought…

— Rebecca Flowers

“As someone who had faced the harsh reality of her parents' divorce and experienced the fallout from that situation,”

— Joe Allan

“She'd like to say more, and explain that her years of marriage had so degraded her expectation of happiness that to sit cradling a…

— Sarah Perry

“Her feelings about marriage were . . . fanciful and unrealistic.”

— Melanie Dickerson

“...and she thought she understood, for the first time, the strange and terrible power a parent has over a child's happiness, and also how…

— Meg Mitchell Moore

“She didn’t know what to make of this sporadic urgency with him. It had confounded and humiliated her for the thirty years of their…

— Ayana Mathis

“In psychological terms, he was neurotic and she was uncommonly sane. His inevitable eruptions would not threaten the marriage, because she was the center…

— Joseph J. Ellis

“Since the disintegration of her parents' marriage, she'd only loved two things. The first was her long blonde hair. The second was how easily…

— Scott Neustadter

“But in truth, I think she’s always had more problems with children than she’d ever admit. I think, in fact, she hates them. There’s…

— Gillian Flynn

“Parents, she thought, learned to survive touching their children less and less.”

— Celeste Ng

“Another and less elevated lesson she had learned in married life was that if she wheedled long enough and discreetly enough, she quite often…

— Winston Graham

“Even in the little while she'd been teaching, she'd met parents who didn't seem to care about their children, regarding them as more of…

— Nicholas Sparks