Children Quote by Ruth Francisco

“Charlotte views her younger selves with a certain detachment. They are herself, but other incarnations, innocents going about half-forgotten business.”

— Penelope Lively

“This was the part where Charlotte, heroine, remembered she was a twenty-first-century woman and a mother. This was Charlotte saying, Hell no!”

— Shannon Hale

“Incessantly, it seemed, life plagued her with responsibilities, made her fall in love, ripped away any consolation she might find. Sisters and parents, brothers…

— Meg Rosoff

“The mother in her believed that the love she had for her daughter was safe from the mayhem of her mind, because it lived…

— Lisa Genova (Author

“Charlotte is a prism for my life. Without her, my existence looks pale and bleak and somewhere near the middle of the suck-meter. But…

— Hannah Moskowitz

“[He] wanted her to be his. But despite her mother's confidence, Charlotte was still too hesitant for words to be rashly spoken. He needed…

— Carolyn Miller

She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized…

— Abraham Verghese

“Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support sustem. (...) She read to discover how not to be Charlotte, how to escape…

— Penelope Lively

“She’d been killed by her own personal assistant, news that Charlotte believed had come as a terrible shock to everyone in the city except…

— Brenda Cullerton

“Her failure to demand her needs, losing all of her years, sacrificing herself on the altar of motherhood to a son who saved himself…

— Cherise Wolas

“Grief she could not feel, for there had been too much bitterness between her mother and herself to leave in her heart any deep…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“The thirst we shared for one another made it clear that the distraction would only come from deprivation. Charlotte was always on my mind.…

— Shawn Kirsten Maravel