Children Quote by Vivien Alcock

“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 told herself a story about a daughter in a family so hungry for a daughter that it would have eaten her alive if…

— Jonathan Franzen

“But the very next moment, the boy’s excitement all died away. An unfamiliar pain began in him, of a kind that he had never…

— Neil D'Silva

“It was a strange staging for death, for the woman on the high bed was dying. Slowly, fighting every inch of the way with…

— John Buchan

“She remebered the angry hurt she had felt because his mother had abandoned him as a young boy,and she cried even harder.His mother should…

— Judith McNaught

“I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young…

— Georges Bataille

“This girl was a poison that could ruin him. She was innocent, inexperienced, yet burned with fire, curiosity, and challenge. His body was ready…

— Alessandra Torre

“She was a stranger because something essential was shielded, released in tiny bursts until it became a flood---a flood of what I realized I…

— Carmen Maria Machado

“Perhaps he’d recently lost some bulk. But there was plenty of him remaining, and all of it was lean and hard. His body was…

— Tessa Dare

“That little girl was dead and in her place stood a cold-blooded killer.”

— Reyna Pryde

“She ran because she had no other choice. She feared what would happen if she dared to stop. There was no time to think.…

— Judyann McCole

“Instead she was wet, bedraggled, and a stranger here.”

— Dianne Salerni