Quotes of: Child-abuse Keyword

Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a 3 -legged race with a life size rag doll.

The Last Olympian

Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.

Lady Audley's Secret

...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.

The Last Four Things

What I did next was so impulsive and dangerous I should've been named ADHD poster child of the year.

The Lightning Thief

Grownups don't pay it much attention because they can't imagine anything more majestic to a child than their own selves and so confused dependance for reverence.

Love

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Losing Me, Finding You

Thinking these things made space and time around her, the way saying 'only June' had when she was a child hoarding summer.

In Summer Light

Nurture the child within oneself and define a new era of global peace and understanding.'-Dalia Qutob

Sarah in the City of Moon

Every child that receives life advice should keep in mind that in every parent’s past, there’s leftover booze and contraceptives.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

Good grief," said Merlin. "You look like the bastard child of Dumbledore and David Bowie. No, sorry, Dumbledore and Ziggy Stardust.

The Student Prince

I got excited when I saw a midget, and then disappointed when I realized it was just a child. Those things are so common.

Sleepwalking is restercise

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

The Second Sin

[Magnus] held on to the boy, newborn in grave dirt and blood, and he wished that he had found him dead.

Saving Raphael Santiago

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?

Stargazer

What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream

Suttree

Never seen the sea! How could anyone not have seen the sea? Surely the sea must somehow belong to the happiness of every child.

The Time of the Angels

You must teach the child of the signs that come to the women of our family when there is trouble and death to be.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

If it weren't for the animals waiting for her, she wouldn't bother getting out of bed. Then, room service was a little lacking when you lived alone.

Tuesday's Child

The image I'd had of myself as a child was someone I'd never be, and it was only recently that I realized it was okay to be who I was. - Cat

This Side of the Grave

One unforeseen advantage of having a  child was that it gave me the excuse to talk to myself to my heart's content and pretend it was for my daughters benefit.

Petite Anglaise