The Wild Children Quotes

People had been disappearing. Everyone knew that. And yet, when Alex […] found his whole family had been taken away […] he couldn't quite believe it. (1.1)

People had been disappearing for months, years now, yet none dared talk about it except in the privacy of their homes with the curtains drawn. (1.5)

He often wondered how life could be so perilous for the people, even though his father had told him that the new government was a "people's government." (1.7)

There were months at a time when the town had had no meat, no milk, no bread. The peasants were being forced to give up their farms, their cattle. (1.7)

He was acting […] playful, not worried, while all the day his insides had been crying, moaning, sometimes screaming. It was like pain, but worse. (1.24)

He was twelve years old, but on this day he was so insecure and uncertain that he felt as he had when he was a much younger child. (1.38)

"Don't think, Alex, that the idea of socialism is bad. […] It is just there are good people and bad people in all systems, and sometimes the good people are overwhelmed by the bad." (1.61)

Since the civil war and the revolutions nobody was really safe, yet Alex's father behaved as if they were. (1.5)