Children Quote by Rebecca West

“But there was something strange about her that made me think she was "somebody." I don't mean her poise, the cool manner in which…

— Anne Rice

“She smiled, pretending to be unaware like every child, but she knew. Children know things even if they can’t explain them in words.”

— Cara Ruegg

“No longer did she look like a shy little maid who was trained to censor her thought before it reached her mouth. These past…

— Kien Nguyen

“Her shame, she was certain, marked her in ways apparent to anyone who looked closely. It had grown to her like a second skin”

— Sondra Allan Carr

“She secretly regarded her children as marvellous, even while she laughed down their youthful conceit and punished their naughtiness.”

— Kathleen Thompson Norris

“Of course the children had exchanged labels with one another the second her back was turned. They were only human, even if they hadn’t…

— Chris Cleave

“She understood at least as well as I did what corruption and pitiless cruelty might be hidden behind the masks that some people wore.”

— Dean Koontz

“Growing up she had become used to allowing men the ability to curve themselves into question marks around her and hold her desperately as…

— R. YS Perez

“I was starting to realize how much the presence of a child could make adults act more like adults.”

— Karen White

“She felt like a child clad in the armour of an adult. She was perplexed at the respect she received from other adults; she…

— Jerold J. Kreisman

“Now and then she looked harassed by her own potential, like certain young people, and you might notice then the way a stillness spread…

— Nic Pizzolatto

“...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