Children Quote by Virginia Woolf

“There were thousands of children just like her in the world. She had walked through the fire and come out the other side scorched,…

— J.L. Murphey

“She was like the dust that clung to his shirt. She was in the silences that had become so frequent at the house, silences…

— Khaled Hosseini

“The children looked like remnants of themselves. Spectral. Some were naked to the waist.Many of them had sores on their faces. None had shoes.…

— Colum McCann

“A thing that had always struck her about the child was that he seemed so collected. She had never seen him cry. And now…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“As far as she could see, children mostly argued, shouted, ran around very fast, laughed loudly, picked their noses, got dirty and sulked.”

— Terry Pratchett

“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

“Then I shall be devastated. My heart will be crushed as thoroughly as dust beneath your feet". "Oh, we can't have that". Her eyes…

— Victoria Alexander

“He invented stories so fantastic she had to believe. Of cours, she was only a child, still removing the dust from her first death.…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Yet the stories moved her. She couldn’t deny it. And they moved her in a way only *true* things could. It wasn’t sentiment that…

— Clive Barker

“But the truth was she could not bear to be around thier undead,healthy children.More than envy she felt that each laughing redcheeked child of…

— Toni Morrison

“Stories of her children when they were small, their round little bodies barely containing their personalities, which bloomed and glittered and melted into her.”

— Erica Bauermeister

“We all saw. The Dark figure in the Night. Shining teeth. Blood red eyes. And fur so black it was like a void. The…

— Megan Hietala