A thousand times today I've started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, "Can you tell me...? But then I'd look into the front seat, at my mother's silent shaking, my father's grim profile, the mournful bags under his eyes, and all the questions I might ask seemed abusive. Assault and battery, a question mark used like a club. My parents are old and fragile. I'd have to heartless to want to hurt them.
Margaret Peterson HaddixMots clés fear parents silence child crying feelings discomfort protectiveness suppress
If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.
Emma DonoghueMots clés humor self child cake
Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible humiliation in front of adults, the confession that they bear the stigma of childhood, of being small and having a child's need for sleep.
Stefan ZweigMots clés children sleep childhood child bed
Hannah expected this to make her sob even more, but instead she found her tears drying up and her tummy growing warm. How dare they? How dare they do this to little girls? She understood now why her parents go so angry when they saw the result of bombers in the white hot streets of the Middle East, why men and women wailed in anger as well as grief as they lifted the limp bodies of children from the rubble. How dare they? No, she wasn't going to die like this, wrapped up like some helpless baby.
Stephen M. IrwinMots clés fear parents courage determination child anger bombs captive captured hostage-situation little-girl news-program
You see yourself as if old and wise.
I see you really miss your childhood.
And no child deserved to die for defending her father, no matter who she was
Janice HardyI don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail.
Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O' Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life. Maybe your childhood was grim and horrible, but grim and horrible is Okay if it is well done. Don't worry about doing it well yet, though. Just get it down.
Mots clés advice writing writers childhood child memoir encouragement memories young
When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.
Jodi PicoultEvery child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath TagoreMots clés man god child message
Before Elijah could raise a nation from the dead, he raised just one dead child.
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