“What do you think Frederick is trying to say with his pictures?" "That the world is too much for him." They turned onto a dirt road. White dust rose around the car. "Children say it all the time in different ways. The privilege is lost with age.” LifeChildrenPainAdultsTraumaBeing Overwhelmed Book:What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us Source: What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us
“Often children's book illustrators were assumed to have kind and whimsical natures--a foolish expectation, for all the best children's literature, if anyone has been paying attention, hinges on betrayal, the heartlessness of nature, death.” ChildrenDeathNatureBetrayalChildren S BooksKids BooksIllustratorsKid LitChildren S Book Illustrators Book:I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories Source: I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
“I was an attentive child; the world seemed like a bewildering place and I wanted all the knowledge I could come by.” WorldLifeChildrenAttentionKnowledgeChildhoodBewildermentAttentiveness Book:I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories Source: I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
“Something she and her husband had in common but rarely discussed was the absence of a desire for children, to fill their home with people besides themselves. It was a silent agreement, felt rather than spoken, and in her experience the soundest agreements were the ones that did not require the reassurances of language. Therefore this line of questioning was the inverse of what she usually fielded, since a childless married woman in her thirties was so often regarded, by men and women alike, as a puzzle or a pity. What's the story here? people would ask, inquests designed to make women like her suspect there was something malformed inside, blinding them to the hideous reality of their choice.” ChildrenChoicesWomenMarriageAbnormalityChildlessness Book:The Third Hotel Source: The Third Hotel