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  1. Kate Atkinson _ Life After Life

    Pamela produced placid babies. "They don't tend to turn feral until they're two," she said.
    book-quotehumorchildren

  2. Gregory Maguire _ Lost

    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 herself?
    book-quotehumorchildrenthe-world

  3. Joanne Harris _ The Gospel of Loki

    I'm only keeping in touch with you for the sake of the children. Way to look after our son, by the way. I let you have him for the weekend and before I know it he's chained underground, awaiting Last Times and stinking of mead.
    book-quotechildrenlokifenris

  4. Jeanette Winterson _ The World and Other Places:

    I made him walk on a lead and he jumped for joy, the way creatures do, and children do and adults don't do, and spend their lives wondering where the leap went.
    book-quotechildrenjoygrowing-up

  5. Jeanette Winterson _ The World and Other Places:

    Why doesn't every mother believer her child can change the world? The child can. This is the joke. Here we are still looking for a saviour and hundreds are being born every second. Look at it, this tiny capsule of new life, indifferent to your prejudices, your miseries, unmindful of the world already made. Make it again? They could if we let them, but we make sure they grow up just like us, fearful like us. Don't let them know the potential that they are.
    book-quotechildrenfearpotential

  6. Jeanette Winterson _ Sexing the Cherry

    When Jordan was a baby he sat on top of me much as a fly rests on a hill of dung. And I nourished him as a hill of dung nourishes a fly, and when he had eaten his fill he left me.Jordan...I should have named him after a stagnant pond and then I could have kept him, but I named him after a river and in the flood-tide he slipped away.
    book-quotechildrenmothersrivers

  7. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing _ Nathan der Weise

    Nicht die Kinder bloß, speist man mit Märchen ab.
    book-quotechildrenfairytales

  8. Francesca Lia Block _ Wasteland

    It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If someone said, Isn't it cute, look at them playing, we would have smiled back, humoring them, but it wasn't playing. It was transformation. It was our own world. Our own rules.
    book-quotechildrenchildhoodreality

  9. George Saunders _ Tenth of December

    A bad thing happened to you kids, Dad said. But it could have been worse.So much worse, Mom said.But because of you kids, Dad said, it wasn't.You did so good, Mom said.Did beautiful, Dad said."
    book-quotechildrentrauma

  10. Andrew Solomon _ 

    There is no such thing as reproduction, only acts of production.
    book-quotewritingchildrenparenting

  11. Hermann Hesse _ Klingsors letzter Sommer

    There had been a quarrel, she had been hurt, had wept. Now it was over; now she sat still and waited. Life would go on. As with children. As with animals. If only you did not talk, did not make simple things complicated, did not turn your soul inside out.
    book-quotelifechildrensilence

  12. Hermann Hesse _ Siddhartha

    The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.
    book-quoteworldchildrenobservation
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