Quotes of: Child-abuse Keyword

As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.

Nineteen Minutes

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

Never Too Late to Call: God Is Always There

What is it?” “A prayer.” “For a child?” She nodded. “For me?” Another nod. “On a tree?” “Trees spend all day looking up at God.

For One More Day

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

For One More Day

Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth, to reach through.

Libriomancer

I believe in the fireside. I believe in the democracy of home. I believe in the republicanism of the family. .

The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

Not to do as the child wishes would be wrong because he is born on a path, and it would be evil, a crime against nature to make him deny his spirit.

The Last Crossing

Whoever claims any right that he is unwilling to accord to his fellow-men is dishonest and infamous.

The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

Every man should stand under the blue and stars, under the infinite flag of nature, the peer of every other man.

The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

When all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.

The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.

The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

... the Iroquois take dreams very seriously. They see them as the secret wishes of the soul--the heart's desire, so to speak. Not all dreams, maybe, but the important ones. [p.254]

The Lake of Dreams

I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.

The Left Hand of Darkness

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

Remember, children, all the stories are true." Simon tried to wrap his head around the idea that there might, somewhere in Germany, be a large bean stalk with an angry giant at the top.

The Lost Herondale

Simon was still hoping that somewhere in the Sadowhunter manual was the secret of the Vulcan death grip. After all, as his instructors kept reminding them: All the stories are true.

The Lost Herondale

Divided we stand,' Simon thought, his stubborn biceps refusing to bulge. 'United we do push-ups.

The Lost Herondale

For some reason, I kept seeing it—it trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retina—a radiant child of twelve, sitting on a threshold, "pinging" pebbles at an empty can.

Lolita

You’ve got a good side?” “I do. I just don’t use it too often. My bad side’s so much more fun.

The Mercedes Coffin

Have you paused to consider that there is no way out? Each way out of one situation necessarily being the way into another situation.

The Mouse and His Child

There is nothing more pathetically sad than a parent who teaches a child not to hit by spanking them. Well, that, and adults who think hitting someone will solve a problem.

Saving a Fallen Mate