458 quotes found
“Had any parent ever succeeded in hiding marital unhappiness from their child?”
“I know what it is: it's a green mamba snake away up in the tree. You don't have to be afraid of them anymore because you are one. They lie so still on the tree branch; they are the same everything ...”
“The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a sacred Yes.”
“A.J. watches Maya in her pink party dress, and he feels a vaguely familiar, slightly intolerable bubbling inside of him. He wants to laugh out loud or punch a wall. He feels drunk or at least carbo...”
“If Jana had been given to putting her thoughts into words, she might have told Laxmi that without someone to love,there was no reason to live.”
“Disclosure without therapy is the second rape of the child.”
“The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is like a yellow hole..." Max, at that moment, knew that only a child could...”
“I know what it is to be hungry, and it is very hard when one cannot even pretend it away. -Sara”
“According to the prophecy a child was going to come along that would be part human and part robot and this child was going to change everything. Of course it was way too soon both sides were total...”
“I love you, Daisy. I love you so much I hurt.”
“To simplify your life, just think of yourself as a four-year-old child. Try to imagine the way he thinks of reality. If you have to talk to someone about a so-called complicated matter, see how you...”
“That girl is a grade one a-hole with a severe attitudinal problem.”
“So time passed on. And the two skyscrapers decided to have a child. And they decided when their child came it should be a *free* child. "It must be a free child," they said to each other. "It must ...”
“from a child in danger to a dangerous child”
“Pack animals always tear apart the weaklings in their midst. Every child knows that much instinctively.”
“I was eight years old and scared, and had no idea what was going on”
“Cowards excuse themselves by the children. Heroes excuse the children. (Les lches s'excusent par les enfants. - Les hros excusent les enfants.)”
“The reason why Janes spirit was not broken was that she had a secret. It was her own special secret and she had told no one else except Peggy. She locked it in her heart and hugged it to herself. I...”
“I was scared...and did not know what was coming for me next.”
“Harry... take my body back, will you? Take my body back to my parents...”
