Quotes of: Child-abuse Keyword

The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, 'You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.

The Selfish Giant

That child of Hell had nothing human; nothing lived in him but fear and hatred.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too small ever to contain the experience.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to make it perfect.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

Money, Possessions and Eternity

The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is , and acted upon, the male is , the mover.

Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form

If variety is the spice of life, then my life must be one of the spiciest you ever heard of. A curry of a life. -Paul Child

My Life in France

In Egypt, like everywhere, the land is made to fit the sky; but here it is more so. Here it is possible to say, “This is land," and point, and “This is sky," and point, but the eyes can’t discover the dividing line.

Mr. Fox

Faith in Jesus is the most important event in the history of a child’s life.

A Mom After God's Own Heart

Do stop flirting with my husband," said Tessa. "I shall not," Magnus declared, "but I will pause briefly so that I may catch up on your news.

The Midnight Heir

She seemed like a creature made to attract everyone and express nothing real, though it would take a master observer, like Magnus, to know it.

The Midnight Heir

It was, of course, odd for a lady to be opening her own door, but from the look of the place, Magnus assumed the entire staff of servants had been given the decade off.

The Midnight Heir

The conviction that everyone in this house must be dead had gained such a hold on Magnus that it was a shock when the woman who had summoned him here opened the door.

The Midnight Heir

...there are more terrifying monstrosities in the world than Anthropophagi. Monstrosities who, with a smile and a comforting pat on the head, are willing to sacrifice a child upon the altar of their own overweening ambition and pride.

The Monstrumologist

The pain is kind of challenge your mind presents - will you learn how to focus and move past boredom, or like a child will you succumb to the need for immediate pleasure and distraction?

Mastery

I've come to the conclusion that liking a person we are required to have dealings with is not of paramount importance. But respect is crucial, on both sides, as is tolerance, and a depth of understanding of those influences that sculpt a character.

Messenger of Truth

It seems obvious now: the child who spends school days in a fog of semi-comprehension has no way to know her problem is not that she is slow-witted.

My Beloved World

In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.

Nature and Selected Essays