Sheri S. Tepper Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Mother, Children, Lying

  Sheri S. Tepper (2011). “Plague of Angels”, p.118, Spectra

• Though this new forest grew mightily, elsewhere the mighty jungles fell. Elsewhere the coastal rain forests that furred the body of the world were torn and riven. Elsewhere the last of the old growth the last of the world's own garment were ripped away. It was in this time, now, that the mother of us all was stripped naked and left to die in shame of her children, she who had been robed in glory like this, adorned like this. I bent my head upon the roots and wept, sorrowing for the trees.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Mother, Children, Rain

• Other people's risks are statistical. When it's your risk, your own child, it isn't statistical anymore.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Children, People, Risk

  Sheri S. Tepper (2011). “Sideshow”, p.11, Hachette UK

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