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“It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.”
“Save the children, save mankind.”
“What a terrible thing it is for children to see death, you say. We have it all wrong. If you make a child terrified of death, he won't embrace it so easily. And death must be embraced if you wish t...”
“What is a parent, really, but somebody who picks up the things a child leaves behind - a trail made of stripped off clothing, orphaned shoes, tiny bright plastic game pieces, and nostalgia - and wh...”
“Mother's arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies within.”
“Sam, Sam, quite contrary,bought a budgie,wanted a canary.Sam, Sam, quite contrary, kissed Suzannah,meant to kiss Marry.Sam, Sam, quite contrary,dressed as a pirate,playing a fairy.Sam Sam quite con...”
“You don’t look like anyone special at all,” I tell him. And I curse him. And I start a club to hate him. And I make a magic spell to get rid of him.”
“Children—their untroubled, idyllic vision of the future is almost always shattered. Sooner or later they learn what all youth must—that life is the cruel fate that awaits them while they make plans...”
“I’m convinced that one of the most powerful forces on earth is the prayer of a child.”
“He switched off the light, came back and sat in the chair. In the darkness, Liesel kept her eyes open. She was watching the words.”
“They’re close. Voices loud and fierce, Slapping faces with words. A scream … A cry … They’re getting closer.Did I lock the door? It’s too late to check. They’re coming. I barely move, barely breath...”
“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.”
“...thinking about laughing with 2 yr old Findlay today - Dostoyevsky was right, “The soul is healed by being with children.” ...”
“grappling with some small understanding of this place, this time, we're in" my poem "In a BishopsWood Clearing”
“The children walk away from me, flick flickety off at a tangent between thin blotched beech trunks, then turn like yo-yos at the end of their strings and come back to me" from the poem "In a Bishop...”
“Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it sank into submission, marked the end of their resistance.”
“I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.”
“My children taught me the true meaning of unconditional love.”
“Nurturing a child’s sense of personal worth and therefore hope and dreams for a wonderful future is perhaps the most important responsibility of every grownup in a child’s life.”
“A church begins to die when it says, ‘They were just children.”
