Little time Quote by Nora Roberts

“I forgot that with the green, the plushness, and shiny plant life that pushed up and surrounded us, with the nourishment it provided came—the…

— Lauren Nicolle Taylor

“He couldn’t help remembering how much he’d wanted a puppy when he was a little boy. Mind you, they’d been starving – anything with…

— Terry Pratchett

“It was babies I loved looking at, the little Lords, sensuous delights of pudgy flesh and fluids. For at least three years I was…

— Siri Hustvedt

“I was stunned when my father picked her up to soothe her. I’d never seen him show any fatherly affection before. He spoke to…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“It took me several years of such periods of being alone to learn how to care for myself, at least at table. I came…

— M.F.K. Fisher

“We usually got up at five o’clock. For breakfast, we ate Chinese cabbage that we grew in our garden. It was boiled in water…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“As I watched her, I understood why a mother would starve herself to feed a baby; how there was always time and room for…

— Jodi Picoult

“dinner. I would climb over the farmer’s fence and toss back to my father samples of the crop I was harvesting. It could be…

— Charles Brandt

“Like orphans at a Thanksgiving meal or stray dogs huddling on a cold night, they had an unspoken pact.”

— Linda McDonald

“They live beyond the quick ghetto. In hovels. In the shantytown.' He smiled. 'And every night, after the sun's descended, they can crawl safely…

— China Miéville

“and I discovered my limitations, and mainly I learned that there was a price to pay for that childhood (it turns out there’s no…

— David Grossman

“In those days, at least in my small town, parents didn't seem to worry so much about what their kids were doing as long…

— K. Martin Beckner