#child

Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken? ↗

— Trenton Lee Stewart

#family #family

We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed. ↗

— Justin Torres

#child #children #family #kids #love

Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird. ↗

— China Miéville

#reading #sense-of-wonder #fantasy

It seems better to me for a child to have these skills and never use them, than not have them and one day need them," she said. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#skill #child

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be. ↗

— John Connolly

#childhood #child

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#child #child

Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#child

I was with book, as a woman is with child. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#child

What I did next was so impulsive and dangerous I should've been named ADHD poster child of the year. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#child

A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#heart #hurt #word #wound #child