A Child Quotes
Hello my darling, I’m your real father. I’ve been searching for you ever since you were stolen from me. I love you so much. Daddy
A susceptible child is capable of great hero worship, and a young mind can easily be obsessed by an idea which persists into adult life.
Being loud after drinking wine doesn't help. Being silent after drinking wine doesn't help. Nothing really ever gets solved either way.
Pram wasn't told the story of her birth. But even as a very small girl, she felt deep in her chest that she was alive and dead at the same time.
Actions have consequences. Kids today don’t think about that. It’s like, ‘Hey, wouldn’t this be awesome?!’ Consequences? What are those?
It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confronting your own mortality
Remember, it's still a mystery to be an adult. If you knew it all before eighteen, you'd have nothing to look forward to.
...The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all.
I discovered that when one follows the artist's eye one sees unexpected treasures in so many seemingly ordinary scenes.
Work hard. "Suit yourself, then you'll know at least one person is pleased.
Every child knows its mother, Dany thought. When the seas go dry and the mountains blow in the wind like leaves.
We only have babies when we’re young enough not to know how grim life turns out.
Peter, you're not crazy, " William said. "Nobody's really crazy. That's just a word. Isn't it, Torey? Just a word. And nobody's a word.
I was cured in my new infamy of all the tired wisdom of age. I would never weary into that tired state again---I swore to myself, I would always be this raw, wet child hereafter...
Age does not matter in most relationships, but in marriage, it matters a lot. If you marry a younger you have to baby sit, and if you marry an older, you have to follow orders.
It is a rare person who can cut himself off from mediate and immediate relations with others for long spaces of time without undergoing a deterioration in personality.
I am here for readers to see parts of themselves during my dark days, but also for a better way of living in my triumphs and gained wisdom.
Overcoming abuse doesn't just happen, It takes positive steps everyday. Let today be the day you start to move forward.
You're a survivor because everyday you make a choice not to be governed by their harsh words or actions. No one has the right to take away your happiness.
As I grabbed my cocoa, chocolate ran down my hand."This makes me feel like a five-year-old, " I said, licking it off."If I ordered a sandwich at this place, do you think they'd cut the crusts off?
I wish I were like you pa. I wish I had not been afraid, all my life! Pg.55
But what was I but a scared child lost in a strange world? How could I replace all that been lost? Where was my place in the world?
I have being saved by the grace of God.I am a child of God.The Lord's great favour and mighty power is upon me.
Killing things shouldn't make you happy, Rosa. That's why they're worried.
I'll never get to hear her say, 'I love you, Mommy, ' like other parents take for granted.
Throughout history, the most brutal cultures have always been distinguished by maternal-infant separation.
It seemed ironic to her that women were considered far too meek for the morbidity of war, and yet a child could give their life in a battle they did not even understand.
It's all interrelated, these destructive things I do. I latch on to people, like I'm collecting them. I'm always looking for a hero, you know?
God gives urge, urge gives pleasure, pleasure gives pains, pains gives fruits, fruits gives trees, trees die and go to hell!
The world slides, the world goes, and death makes equal the rich and the poor
Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens
As the High Priestess looked down upon the child, she was struck by her holy perfection. She was a tiny person in miniature, and her beautiful eyes, little hands, and long eyelashes were sublime.
...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.
She wished she had eyes like her sister, huge and bright, constantly straddling the line between terrified child and ingénue.
An Underground Railroad story with a distinctive flavor. –Booklist
A gripping historical novel . . . heart-stopping, heart-racing and eventually heart-easing.–Library Voice
Very different from other middle grade of YA stories I've read about slaves running during the 1800s. – Wandering Librarian
I wish I could read a couple of thousand words a day. Words written by someone else for a change!
Congratulations to your mom and dad for birth of a sweet child!Sorry that I couldn't wish them when you were born.
Had she been a more instinctive, "natural" cook, she might have felt less compelled to parse each recipe, to tackle each one as though getting it right were a matter of life and death.
Adoption is a lifelong journey. It means different things to me at different times. Sometimes it is just a part of who I am. Other times it is something I am actively going through.