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“How fragile life was, how fleeting their days on earth, and how fickle was Death, claiming the young as often as the old, the healthy as often as the ailing, cruelly stealing away a baby's first breath, a mother's fading heartbeat.”

Firsts Earth Young Mother Baby Healthy Breaths Stealing Fragile Fleeting Heartbeat Fading Fickle

Author:Sharon Kay Penman

“One of the first things Catholic school taught me is that babies were born sinners. You sucked before you took your first breath.”

Firsts School Born Taught Baby Breaths Catholic Sinner Catholic School

Book:Lizz Free or Die: Essays

Source: Lizz Free or Die: Essays

“You love the way it makes me feel when I can't catch my breath Like walkin' on a high wire, Lord, it scares me half to death You're always high above me and I'm always fallin' down Our loves just a circus baby, and I'm just the clown”

Way Feels I Can Half Lord Baby Breaths Scare Our Love Clown Wire Circus

Author:Conway Twitty

“Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth.”

Ifs Firsts Looks Light Courses Wish Stars Attitude Feet Sky Car Baby Breaths Teeth Shooting Planes Candle Lifting Tunnels Shooting Star Feet Off The Ground Baby Teeth

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“However in the world did her skin come green?" Nanny wondered, stupidly, for Melena blanched and Frex reddened, and the baby held her breath as if trying to turn blue to please them all. Nanny had to slap her to make her breath again.”

Ifs World Trying Turns Baby Please Skins Breaths Blue Green Slap Nannies

Book:The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz

Source: The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz

“Pass by the synthetic yarn department, then, with your nose in the air. Should a clerk come out with the remark that All Young Mothers In This Day and Age (why can't they save their breath and say "now"?) insist on a yarn which can be machine-washed and machine-dried, come back at her with the reply that one day, you suppose, they will develop a baby that can be machine-washed and -dried.”

Should Age Young Mother Air Baby One Day Machines Breaths Noses Department This Day Remarks Clerks Knitting Synthetic Yarn Young Mother

Book:Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac: The Commemorative Edition

Source: Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac: The Commemorative Edition

“Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals of the frozen first breaths of babies, and those of the last gasps of the dying.”

Firsts Lasts Middle Dying Judging Baby Breaths Guilt Innocence Frozen Crystals Middle Aged Fleas Vendors Flea Markets Gavel

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer