The Children's Hour Quotes

“Besides, back to the subject of you being nuts, all writers are nuts, didn’t you know that?”
― Douglas Clegg, The Children's Hour

“As Bambi’s mother said, why not blow a few extra bucks when the mood strikes?”
― Douglas Clegg, The Children's Hour

“If only... the two most miserable words in the English language. If only.”
― Douglas Clegg, The Children's Hour

“Wilma owned a pit bull and they lived in separate trailers, side by side, and sometimes, when she was angry, she and the pit bull looked like kin to him.”
― Douglas Clegg, The Children's Hour

“What is it you want the most? Money, love, fame, happiness? Make your choice, you only get one. Make it, and blow out the candles, spin the wheel, say the prayer. You only get one of them, so make it last.
What is it you want the most?
My name's Fate, Mister Fate to you, children, and whatever it is you want the most, make sure...
Very sure...
Because I'm gonna make sure it's the one thing you never get.”
― Douglas Clegg, The Children's Hour

“But he was exhausted, too, and not even feeling as if he were alive. Inside him, it felt as if something brilliant, some fire, had been sucked from his soul, and now he was just an animal living on instinct.”
― Douglas Clegg, The Children's Hour

“Where I am, it is always night.”
― Douglas Clegg, The Children's Hour

“He was too damned innocent. Homer wished he could keep Tad at this point, bonsai him to never grow up, to never have to experience bad things—”
― Douglas Clegg, The Children's Hour

“He thought he could hear the hum of the universe as he sat there. The airwaves of God, maybe, that kept the whole lunatic world somehow on track.”
― Douglas Clegg, The Children's Hour

“Tried to die, though, but can't. You can't die when you never really lived, can you? It would be redundant.”
― Douglas Clegg, The Children's Hour