Quotes of: Child-abuse Keyword

I was a happy child. I felt loved. I never would've imagined that things would turn out the way that they did".

A Shadow of Light

It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

I've been the oldest child since before you were born

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.

Mr. Fox

Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.

Memoirs of a Geisha

[Will Herondale] would say he knew a warlock who was a better friend, and more worth trusting, than many a nephilim warrior.

The Midnight Heir

Coaxing drunken Shadowhunters into making fools of themselves was a favorite occupation among the Downworlders, and this performance had been a tremendous success.

The Midnight Heir

[Magnus] reminded himself of his manners, and bowed. "Charmed," he said. "Or whatever effect would please you best, I'm sure.

The Midnight Heir

The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.

Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood

If you can change things, change them, but don't waste time worrying about things you can't change.

Night's Child

that a child is not an event, alleged or otherwise, a mistake or accident or crime. . . he is by definition more than this, sum rather than division, a living promissory note.

Northwest Corner

He'd watched the world change around him, civilizations rise and fall, and although he could have anything, anyone, he wanted her.

Night Child

Independance grows out of a child's faith that her source of security will always be there when she needs it.

The Nursing Mother's Guide to Weaning

Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.

The Law of Divine Compensation: Mastering the Metaphysics of Abundance

The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling.

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.

The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

Liberty sustains the same relation to mind that space does to matter.

The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

Tobias loved her more than he’d loved anything—his family, his duty, even himself. There, perhaps, the Herondale blood ran true.

The Lost Herondale

Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you’re going to be.

The Lost Herondale

You couldn't know how much going away had changed you until you tried to go home.

The Lost Herondale