Children Quote by Ned Beauman

“And as he followed after the Irishwoman, Margaret Erskine, most levelheaded of women, picked up a Palissy vase, looked at it earnestly and smashed…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“He thought her delightful, - freckles, picnic-untidiness and all.”

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“Sometimes he worried that the coat had a mind of its own. The only other person who'd ever managed to find what they wanted…

— V.E. Schwab

“Everything is really something else in disguise. Of course she was no exception, she reminded herself. Everybody would assume that she was there as…

— Frances Hardinge

“She wished he could make her somehow indelibly his; that they were still children so they could cut their fingers and mingle their blood…

— Meredith Duran

“Exactly what was wrong with her? And could she pass it on to any children she may have?”

— Shelly Laurenston

“Gladys had seen all of this, and she made it his to know. She'd lost her future to death, and lost her child to…

— Denis Johnson

“She wished for a moment that they were all children again. It still seemed extraordinary to her, that everything had turned out the way…

— Sarah Waters

“He could tell Eleanor was nervous on the bus. She was quiet, and she kept running her bottom lip through her teeth, making it…

— Rainbow Rowell

“I turned to discover the faint smile of the bookseller's niece. Her voice was pure crystal, transparent and so fragile I feared that her…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Out of the corner of his eye Wycliff saw the little maid’s cheeks turn pink. He’d forgotten how adorably prudish and modest English women…

— Maya Rodale

“so many that had died on the scaffold and many more to die including, though she did not know it then, her own son.”

— Edna O'Brien