Abuse Quote by Rona Jaffe

“Maybe I went a bit too far, but that’s what people want now. There’s an expectation that children be treated poorly in their literature.…

— Tony Burgess

“It is so heartbreaking what we do to children in this world; how they are destroyed.”

— Bryant McGill

“Kiddo—here's a problem. We've got witches, we've got Evil, we've got an orphan, and we've got a kidnapping. What's the deal?”

— Vivian French

“Chaos was spreading through the scene like germs at a preschool.”

— Robert Kroese

“I don't think kids are any crueler than adults. I just think kids are less adept at disguising their cruelty.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“Children digest terror differently. The boy saw a horror, and that horror became the wicked witch of fairy tales, the cruel snow queen.”

— Gillian Flynn

“[T]o give the children a sense of magic. Nobody attends to this enough. They give them too much realism. They can see it all…

— Nicholas Stuart Gray

“It reminded me of how children always thought too big; how the world tackled and chiseled them to keep them safe.”

— Lorrie Moore

“Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with.”

— Thomas Bernhard

“The initial trauma of a young child may go underground but it will return to haunt us.”

— James Garbarino

“Each child holds the World in an open hand to mould it into any shape they choose...”

— Laura Crean

“Children are amazing beings and it is we who shall try to imitate them and not the other way around.”

— Lone Dybkjær