Tess Gerritsen Quotes

As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.

For any child, boy or girl, a father is both Jedi and Sith: Obi-Wan Kenobi - gentle and calming and good - and Vader, fierce and terrifying.

For me it is important that children be children. My parents felt exactly the same about me.

I have a soft spot for children.

I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.

The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

Your child's not looking at you and going, 'Mmm, I love a clavicle. Let me nestle into that.'

I want roles without anger and feistiness. I want to show weakness and sadness, some love, some happiness.

Dad is and always will be my living, breathing superhero.

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.

I was loved as a kid; I was raised with more love and emotional support than most folks could wish for... my memories aged nought to ten... are all bound up together in a mesh of innocence and fun.

The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.

Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?

A kid is something precious, and you want to protect it and keep it fun. I'm not a dad, but I've seen people and how they behave with their kids.

If you spend any time with a man, you'll realize that we're all still little boys.

Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us.

You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.

I don't know, maybe I'm overly paranoid that they're going to be spoiled, but I want to keep them going as kids for as long as I can. I want to keep them innocent and free.

Children are so precious.

A child deserves the maximum respect.

Even as a child, you can recognise the innocence of Piglet or the strange adult qualities of Eeyore. You just know you are with friends and family.

I love being around kids, and I love to see them happy.