Meg Wolitzer Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• The child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Children, Parent, Jackpot

  Meg Wolitzer (2013). “The Interestings: A Novel”, p.206, Penguin

• You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried to see them off into life and hoped that the little piece of time you’d given them was enough to prevent them from one day feeling lonely and afraid and hopeless. You wouldn’t know the outcome for a long time.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Lonely, Children, Long

  Meg Wolitzer (2008). “The Ten-Year Nap”, p.375, Penguin

• But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Teacher, Children, Parent

  Meg Wolitzer (2011). “The Uncoupling: A Novel”, p.21, Penguin

• Even if you yourself were unhappy and anxious, whenever you glimpsed happiness in your child, you suddenly became happy too.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Children, Unhappy, Anxious

  Meg Wolitzer (2008). “The Ten-Year Nap”, p.209, Penguin

• Being an adult child was an awkward, inevitable position. You went about your business in the world: tooling around, giving orders, being taken seriously, but there were still these two people lurking somewhere who in a split second could reduce you to nothing. In their presence, you were a big-headed baby again, crawling instead of walking.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Baby, Children, Taken

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