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“Having a child flips your concept of love upside down into new depths, otherwise unknown to the human heart.”

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“Holly couldn't sleep; we played checkers. She lifts her fingers and dances them over the board like she's weaving a magic spell before she touches a counter. Apparently it's a mind game - makes the other player watch where you're going instead of planning their next move. Where did a seven-year old learn mind games?”

Children Checkers

Book:The Flatshare

Source: The Flatshare

“Laughter so easily turns to hysteria for imaginative children.”

Children Laughter Hysteria

Book:I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Someday our children, whom we love, may blame us for dishonoring America because we did not care enough about children 10,000 miles away [written, 1967].”

Children Honor Vietnam Suffering Children

Book:The Face of War

Source: The Face of War

“Children are imprinted with the lessons of life from their earliest years. They learn from their parents how to give and receive love. It is the necessary lesson which they must learn if they are to do more than exist in an emotional vacuum inhabited only by themselves.”

Love Children Lesson Parental Guidance Parental Neglect

Book:Crescendo

Source: Crescendo

“When, sometime later, Laurel asked about the bell, her mother replied calmly that how good a bell was depended on the distance away your children had gone.”

Book:The Optimist's Daughter

Source: The Optimist's Daughter

“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.”

Children Fear Change Potential

Book:The World and Other Places: Stories

Source: The World and Other Places: Stories

“There is monumental grace found at the top of the mountains. It is grace born of grit and the will to overcome pain.”

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Book:Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World

Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World

“Many of us are failed secret attempts to keep our parents together.”

Children Divorce Breakup Pregnancy Parenthood Child Childfree Antinatalism Childless Antinatalist

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Everybody deserves a story to read.”

Children Quotes Books Author Story Jill Telford

Author:Jill Telford

“They knew what had happened at school and what was happening now, but they dismissed it in that self-serving way parents often had of pretending anything they can't solve isn't really a problem.”

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Book:Scythe

Source: Scythe