“She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.”
“There's nothing more toxic or deadly than a human child. A single touch could kill you.”
“A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father, but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble.”
“Someone accompanies every soul from the other side when it enters this place. Usually it is an ancestor with whom that child shares traits and gifts”
“I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.”
“Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.”