Children Quotes

“… the Mackenzies regarded all this foolishness with the deepest respect, as if it had some genuine significance. They may have suffered from an indiscriminate sense of the past or from an inability to understand that the past plays no part in our happiness.”
― John Cheever, The Children

“His beginnings were obscure, and, as everyone knows, he got rich enough to be an ambassador.”
― John Cheever, The Children