Gerald's look assured her that he and the others would be as near angels as children could be without ceasing to be human.
Basker possesses three kinds of bite: a snap, a nip, and then something like a buzz saw and an angle grinder mounted on a bear trap.
Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.
Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.
Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.
They teach you, as children, that you might go to heaven. They never teach you that heaven might come to you.
...it took me a lifetime of glimpses, but now I see you completely - did I tell you you're beautiful? so kind to animals, children and me...
All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.
The champagne had been donated by one of Gus's doctors - Gus being the kind of person who inspires doctors to give their best bottles of champagne to children.
We live through the belief of children...Regicide is , citizens. Inscribe in your hearts. The Great Pretend is a fragile construct.
Conversing with children is a fine art.... An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion is a better word.
Alas! It seems to me that when one is as good as this at dissecting children who are to born, one can’t stiffen up enough to create them.
She couldn't tell where his pupils ended and the irises began; looking into those eyes was like looking into a well where children had drowned.
Truth to tell, I'm right proud of Glory. She's standing up for what she believes is right. All of us should lead our children to do that, don't you know?
If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.
People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul...
My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are.
At first parenthood was as I had expected, exhausting, sometimes heinous, and occasionally divine. I held my children close enough to feel them breathe, laugh, swallow.
One of the greatest things parents can do for their children is to believe in them(their uniqueness) and help them realize their own God-given dreams
There is no greater treasure than a husband who models godliness before his wife and children on a daily basis.
Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.
