The Children Quotes

“The children who grew up on these books and reread them later often say the same thing: These are darker than I remember. Crueler”
― Melissa Albert, The Children

“There was a certain cast of evening light that stirred up the loneliness in her”
― Melissa Albert, The Children

“Another canvas wouldn’t simply lose its luster placed beside it but the force that kept it together. What else might this painting swallow”
― Melissa Albert, The Children

“It was neither a promise nor a lie but some third thing. A pretty notion from a parallel world.”
― Melissa Albert, The Children