Children are hideous little creatures, terrible, taxing burdens.
The more people you love, the weaker you are. You’ll do things for them that you know you shouldn’t do. You’ll act the fool to make them happy, to keep them safe. Love no one but your children. On that front, a other has no choice.
The men of always aren’t interested in the children of never.
There are more ways for a woman to be indispensable than in just bearing children.
I don’t want your children.[Frank Haleton: I have children.]
Children grow up thinking the adult world is ordered, rational, fit for purpose. It’s crap. Becoming a man is realising that it’s all rotten. Realising how to celebrate that rottenness, that’s freedom.
The gods never had children with humans.
The newspapers are gonna be tough on you. And prison is very, very hard on people who hurt kids. If you get the opportunity, you should kill yourself.
Parents expect everything from their children. And then they die and what they expect ceases to matter.
Okay, it’s official. I’m never having kids.
Is this about the children? I apologize for the noise. I told them to cry using their inside voices.[to Justice Strauss]
Children transport us to our childhoods.
