Quotes of: Child-abuse Keyword

I shouldn’t even exist. Neither should they. What’s the difference between destroying me and destroying them?” - Lexia Graham

Reckoning

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.

The Road

He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.

The Road

The heart was a tyrant, like a child demanding ice cream instead of broccoli and throwing a fit to get its way.

Tumbledown

Every child born into the world has a divine mission to fulfill.

Think Great: Be Great: Beautiful Quotes

Possibilities are a mysterious beauty. They tease us to explore while our inner child cheers because an adventure is waiting.

Time Slipping

Being a parent is apparently more than most men can handle. This is transparent to even the tiniest child.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.

The Thirteenth Tale

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

The Thirteenth Tale

Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.

The Thirteenth Tale

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

The Thirteenth Tale

Politeness. Being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.

The Thirteenth Tale

...but he is a man, hence cannot see how tiresome it is to have explained at length what one has already fully understood.

The Thirteenth Tale

She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.

The Thirteenth Tale

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

The Thirteenth Tale

I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.

The Thirteenth Tale

We are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past?

Those Who Save Us

Be the type of man a wife would cherish and a child would admire.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are , they are not ...

The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.

Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

One can give up many things for love, but one should not give up oneself.

Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale