Children Quote by Vasily Grossman

“Thus he spent his whole life searching for his own truth, but it remained hidden to him because he had learned at a very…

— Alice Miller

Darkness coiled between what he wanted them to believe and the self he despised. It only made him more alone. How could you save…

— Janet Fitch

“He was filled with horror at the thought of what a child becomes, and what the dead must feel watching the change from innocence…

— Graham Greene

“Perhaps it was something like this that changed the captive children forever; the violence they had endured when they were captured, their parents killed.…

— Paulette Jiles

“He had thought of childhood as something intimate and pure, inside his home, his family. Instead of that, in Deborah's school he had been…

— Earnest Poole

“That child of hell wasn't human. Nothing lived in him but fear and hatred.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“He looked back on his past life, which had been so wretched. How had he been able to bear that terrible burden? He had…

— Leo Tolstoy

“But no one could say he hadn't gotten even. He could not count the field women whom he had sexually degraded and demoralized and…

— James Lee Burke

“How many times had it been made clear to Fin that he was alone in this world? That no one else could help him,…

— Carrie Ryan

“As a child he had often thought of killing himself, but those were sentimental reveries born a wish to punish his father and mother…

— Truman Capote

“Broken leaves flew into the air from the violence of his thrashing, and the gore and blood kept pouring from the black hole in…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“But he had been the victim of the world’s most common crime—his youth had been kidnapped by a thing called time. It had likely…

— Aurelio Voltaire