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  1. Anne Carson _ Glass, Irony and God

    So about an hour later we are in the taxishooting along empty country roads towards town.The April light is clear as an alarm.As we pass them it gives a sudden sense of every objectexisting in space on its own shadow.I wish I could carry this clarity with meinto the hospital where distinctions tend to flatten and coalesce.I wish I had been nicer to him before he got crazy.These are my two wishes.
    book-quotechildrenparentsillness

  2. V.C. Andrews _ Flowers in the Attic

    Then turn your eyes back on me,and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects. We haven'tremained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time.
    book-quoteunderstandingchildrenexperience

  3. V.C. Andrews _ Flowers in the Attic

    Then turn your eyes back on me,and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects.
    book-quoteunderstandingchildrenchild

  4. V.C. Andrews _ Flowers in the Attic

    We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.
    book-quotereadingchildrenexperience

  5. V.C. Andrews _ Flowers in the Attic

    Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling piousand self- righteous while you starve small children!
    book-quotechildrenchildkids

  6. V.C. Andrews _ Flowers in the Attic

    Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk tome about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead!
    book-quotelifedeathchildren

  7. John Steinbeck _ The Log from the Sea of Cortez

    Adults, in their dealing with children, are insane," he {Ed Ricketts} said. "And children know it too. Adults lay down rules they would not think of following, speak truths they do not believe. And yet they expect children to obey the rules, believe the truths, and admire and respect their parents for this nonsense. Children must be very wise and secret to tolerate adults at all. And the greatest nonsense of all that adults expect children to believe is that people learn by experience. No greater lie was ever revered. And its falseness is immediately discerned by children since their parents obviously have not learned anything by experience. Far from learning, adults simply become set in a maze of prejudices and dreams and sets of rules whose origins they do not know and would not dare inspect for fear the whole structure might topple over on them. I think children instinctively know this," Ed said. "Intelligent children learn to conceal their knowledge and keep free of this howling mania.
    book-quotelearningchildrenexperience

  8. Don DeLillo _ Underworld

    How children adapt to available surfaces, using curbstones, stoops and manhole covers. How they take the pockmarked world and turn a delicate inversion, making something brainy and rule-bound and smooth, and then spend the rest of their lives trying to repeat the process."
    book-quotechildrengames

  9. Billy Collins _ The Apple that Astonished

    though they know in their adult hearts,even as they threaten to banish Timmy to bedfor his appalling behavior,that their bosses are Big Fatty Stupids,their wives are Dopey Dopeheadsand that they themselves are Mr. Sillypants.
    book-quotefunchildrenyouth

  10. Paul Auster _ Moon Palace

    All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that.
    book-quotelovechildrenmoon

  11. Joan Didion _ Blue Nights

    We still counted happiness and health and love and luck and beautiful children as "ordinary blessings.
    book-quotelovechildrenhappiness

  12. Tom Robbins _ Still Life with Woodpecker

    It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
    book-quotechildrenyouthinnocence
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