Quotes of: Child Keyword

As long as there are ways we can serve, then we have a job to do.

Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness And Making Miracles

She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.

Envy

She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong for love and yet the narrator went on describing her desire.

Envy

She was full of some strange energy that morning. Her every movement had purpose and life and she seemed to find satisfaction in every little thing.

Envy

That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines she'd always believed took their fate into their own hands.

Envy

Elizabeth who was only partially visible to her stared out the window very much awake as though she were contemplating the end of man.

Envy

I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.

Excellent Women

I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.

Excellent Women

Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.

The Forgotten Garden

But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television in the 1960's.

The Forgotten Garden

The grief of children was unconditional, fueled by the implicit belief that it would last forever; for a child, grief was not grief unless it was eternal.

The Four Last Things

Someone dehumanises you by violating your child and every human thought you had for them is broken, undermined, then gone.

Golden Boy

She was a tall woman with unfashionable hips and a long chestnut braid singing down her back.

God Help the Child

If I hadn't trained Lula Ann properly she wouldn't have known to always cross the street and avoid white boys.

God Help the Child

How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?

The Ghost's Child

dream interpretation were ways of converting our little personal miseries into big robust myths

A Good and Happy Child

Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.

The God Delusion

A big refugee camp governed by real terror and artificially pumped-up optimism - like the bastard child of Butlins and Colditz.

The Girl with All the Gifts

There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep.

The Goat-Foot God

When I was a child I truly loved: Unthinking love as calm and deep As the North Sea. But I have lived, And now I do not sleep.

Grendel

A child can learn what is right as easy as what is wrong and whatever impressions are made on the mind when it is plastic will remain there.

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