Child Quote by Thomm Quackenbush

“She gave another eye roll and glided away. My admiration for my sister grew. One thing to have children...another to keep them when they…

— Kristan Higgins

“She had the sudden feeling that if she could look into those eyes for the rest of her life, she would be happy. It…

— Patricia Briggs

“Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?”

— Annie Ernaux

“She harbored the childhood presumption that the truly scary things could only find her in the night.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Her eyes were rimmed with long nights and things she wishes she had said.”

— Sophie Glynn

“She couldn’t stop watching his eyes. They were bright black, surrounded by an incredible network of lines, like a laboratory maze for studying intelligence…

— Thomas Pynchon

“Perhaps her giant bright-eyed sister had finally come to put her out of her misery just when things had gotten interesting.”

— Alethea Kontis

“I looked at her from the corner of my eye. Some people are hard to imagine as children.”

— Joan Bauer

“And then she grew uneasy and full of gloom and thought to herself that if the child were joy yet was it a new…

— Pearl S. Buck

“Her eyes always bothered me when we were kids. They still do. They make mine ache trying to see where they end.”

— Cath Crowley

“She's not like he imagined. He won't admit to picturing how she'd be while he was growing up, but there was always something in…

— Ali Hazelwood

“She wished for a moment that they were all children again. It still seemed extraordinary to her, that everything had turned out the way…

— Sarah Waters