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“All that evening Nell sat alone in her bedroom trembling with curious satisfaction. For punishment Eva had been sent to her room without supper and Nell sat listening now to the even, steady sobs f...”
“Oh, the joy of the arrival of a child, which is both the one and the other, a mirror in which husband and wife, who love each other, can see each other in one single face.”
“She's a tangled mess of wild- a forest nymph, a goddess child. She's like the seductive sea - feral and fierce, calm and serene. She's the starfish swimming in my soul, the woman child who keeps me...”
“An honest man is always a child.”
“A child's growth is defined entirely by the adult that raises him.”
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING TODAY TO LET ALIVE THE CHILD WITHIN YOU?”
“And like a child, I'd be testing the people who loved me, pulling away from them almost for the sole reason of seeing if anyone would come after me.”
“She is bending over her child. She cant leave her. Thechild is laid out in state on a table. She wants to take one more photograph of the child, probably the last. In life, the child would never si...”
“Like a dying ember, the child in us can flare up again when we least expect it..”
“You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its face value. You are not just one of the women of the household. You are Renisenb who wants to thi...”
“She had the power to remove a child from an unkind parent and she sometimes did. But remove herself from an unkind husband? When she was weak and desolate? Where was her protective judge?”
“Whether he acted rightly or not, I have never been sure. It was the future of a child that was at stake. A child, he felt, ought to be given the benefit of a doubt.”
“Sometimes she walks through the village in herlittle red dressall absorbed in restraining herself,and yet, despite herself, she seems to moveaccording to the rhythm of her life to come.She runs a b...”
“ParentNothing No One Prepares a parent to raise the childNothing No One Can ever prepare a parent to bear the loss of child”
“You see yourself as if old and wise.I see you really miss your childhood.”
“When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child, then he will return, and not before.”
“He wants his children to have an old life and a new life, a life that is indivisible from all lives past, that grows from them, exceeds them, and another that is original, pure, free, that is beyon...”
“Exaggeration is the melodramatic child of truth.”
“The day after two feet of snow paralyzed the eastern part of the United States, the sun shone brightly from clear blue skies and it was as if nothing had ever happened except for the deep snow tha...”
“Right mothering meets the childs need. Focusing on what the child should not be draws resistant energy. Pointing out what the child should be feeds self-hatred and struggle.”
