Children Quote by Steven A. Hall

“Nanny had thought she might lose the child from her grief. At night when she rolled over in the bed and went to drape…

— Gigi Amateau

“Nillness, that was where Lula Landry had gone, and where all of them, he and Rochelle included, were headed. Sometimes illness turned slowly to…

— Robert Galbraith

“She sold her hair; she sold her teeth, but it was never enough. The baby became lethargic and ceased to thrive. She called it…

— Jennifer Worth

“Death had to take her little by little, bit by bit, dragging her along to the bitter end of the miserable existence she'd made…

— Émile Zola

“Old Woman Nora of Loch Lomond To her three wee Grandaughters one cold night.”

— Karen Hawkins

“It was a year ago today your daughter went missing.’ Bagg had closed his eyes, feeling the death going on inside.”

— Cole Alpaugh

“Longstreet took a deep breath. In the winter the fever had come to Richmond. In a week they were dead. All within a week,…

— Michael Shaara

“The shock of her death froze something in me. The child I loved, was gone, but I kept looking for her - long after…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“She had been born to cradle other people's children, wear their hand-me-down clothing, eat their leftovers, live on borrowed happiness and grief, grow old…

— Isabel Allende

“There his wife died of a malady of the chest, from which she had long suffered. He had no children.”

— Victor Hugo

“It had come as a relief when she had been forced to go into the hospital in Emporia, where she could be given drugs…

— Nancy Pickard

“It was a good death. A very good death. She closed her eyes, and an hour later she gasped twice and let out one…

— J.R. Ward