Is the spring coming? he said. What is it like?...It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...
Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.
(pl. ) of Child
(n.) pl. of Child.
It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels
It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.
It seems to be typical of life in America, where opportunities, real and fancied, are thicker than anywhere else on the globe, that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.
It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world he...
It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.
Mandy smiled cheerfully at an overweight kid in a gold sweater and pink skirt who was chasing her little brother around along the boardwalk. When she was that age, on sunny days she’d be out on the bo...
My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books,...
No one is ever satisfied where he is....Only the children know what they’re looking for....
Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.
Of course he won my heart. Many children did. I often thought that I should have liked children of my own if it were not for the undignified manner of getting them.
On the stairs he was crying so much he hardly saw where he was going - not a mad boo-hoo but wailing sheets of tears, shaken into funny groans by the bump of each step as he hurried down.
Pamela produced placid babies. They don't tend to turn feral until they're two, she said.
Sebastian it is. You can tell me what a patron saint is later, since I have no knowledge of such things. Sebastian Kane.Sebastian Kane Cannon. You're going to marry me and use my last name, right?Is t...
She was still glad she looked like Scully. He wasn't pretty either, but pretty people weren't the kind you need. Pretty people saw themselves in the mirror and were either too happy or too sad. People...
She’s happier than Nicola. That’s probably true. Alcoholics can stop drinking but what is there for the children of alcoholics? Is it always too late? Probably. She doesn’t know.
So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state.
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