Quote by Vera Brosgol

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

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“If anyone ever told five-year-olds the truth about life, he thought, there’d be a rash of kindergarten suicides. ”

— P.J. Tracy

“You may be gifted, but you have the maturity of 5 year olds.”

— Paula Pearce

“the real menace in dealing with a 5-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a 5-year-old.”

— Jean Kerr

“I gazed at him. He was old enough to know that few things were fair. Most five-year-olds had already discovered it.”

— Dick Francis

“Children can be so cruel,’ the Doctor said. ‘Children’s writers can be even worse.”

— Puffin

“Little children gladly accept even the strangest stories that others tell them, because they lack either the context or the confidence to doubt. They…

— Orson Scott Card

“There are few children more treasured than ill-behaved ones who belong to someone else.”

— Laurie Frankel

“When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don’t really know what they mean.”

— William Faulkner

“You were a child, you didn't mean to hurt my feelings. Children are ignorant. It takes an adult to choose to be cruel.”

— Jan Strnad

“Somehow kids are supposed to match the levels of calm and composure we might find in mature forty-seven-year-olds. Estimates”

— Tyler Cowen

“I knew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by the time he…

— Jodi Picoult