Quotes of: Unborn-child Keyword

The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.

Servant of the Bones

He stood there a moment, listened to the creek, and let the mountain air blow against his face. Even with all this heartache, it was beautiful here.

The Snow Child

It was beautiful, Mabel knew, but it was a beauty that ripped you open and scoured you clean so that you were left helpless and exposed, if you lived at all.

The Snow Child

We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.

The Stranger's Child

Here we attempt to answer those questions that arise most frequently. YES, THAT IS WHAT 'FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS' MEANS, THANK YOU.

The Shadowhunter's Codex

It is difficult to put words to the smell of decomposing human. It is dense and cloying, sweet but not flower-sweet. Halfway between rotting fruit and rotting meat.

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

It was as if she had reached into her own pocket and discovered a small pebble, as hard as a diamond, that she had forgotten belonged to her.

The Snow Child

Then he returned to Mabel and put his mouth to her ear. I'd never let anything happen to you. You know that, don't you?

The Snow Child

There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely never had

The Stranger's Child

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