Shawna Rothbart

“I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. she perfumed my planet and lit up my life.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or four years ago, she had a young child's perfectly shallow receptiveness; she fitted into the world of time, it fitted into her, as thoughtlessly as sky fits its edges, or a river its banks. But as she has grown, her smile has widened with a touch of fear and her glance has taken on depth. Now she is aware of some of the losses you incur by being here--the extortionary rent you have to pay as long as you stay.”
― Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

“A look of absolute terror locked onto her features.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

“It is no small thing, when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. ”
― Charles Dickens