The cafeteria in the Chicago’s Children’s Memorial Hospital basement was the saddest place in the world–and forever it shall be–with its grim neon lights and gray tabletops and the diffuse foreboding of those who stepped away from suffering children to have a grilled cheese sandwich.
A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children
-
Markus Zusak
When God Created Mothers"When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of "overtime" when the angel appeared and said. "You're doing a lot of fiddling around on this one." And God said, "Have you read the specs on this order?"...
-
Erma Bombeck
The soul is healed by being with children.
-
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.
-
Karl Lagerfeld
I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.
-
Anne Lamott
More Quotes By Aleksandar Hemon
Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.
When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.
Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.
All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.
There's a psychological mechanism, I've come to believe, that prevents most of us from imagining the moment of our own death. For if it were possible to imagine fully that instant of passing from consciousness to nonexistence, with all the attendant fear and humiliation of...
