Steve Toltz Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?" but when you're an adult and to be different is suddenly a crime, people seem to be saying, "Hey. Everyone else is jumping off a bridge. Why aren't you?

  Steve Toltz

  Children, Jumping, Bridges

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.529, Spiegel & Grau

• To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.

  Steve Toltz

  Children, Responsibility

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.196, Spiegel & Grau

• Let’s not mince words: the inside of the Sydney casino looks as if Vegas had an illegitimate child with Liberace’s underpants, and that child fell down a staircase and hit its head on the edge of a spade.

  Steve Toltz

  Children, Vegas, Looks

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”

• The universe doesn't really care if you bounce back. It doesn't feel that weird to write about paralysis or being in hospital or losing a child or, you know, splitting up with your wife, because that's just life.

  Steve Toltz

  Children, Writing, Wife

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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