Edward Lewis Wallant

Children at the Gate

• You gotta take your skin off, you gotta love so much that you go insane.
  • Sammy.

• And a blade twitched into his heart, beginning the slow, massive bleeding he would never be able to stop, no matter what else he might accomplish. He was surprised and puzzled as he walked with that mortal wound in him, for it occurred to him that, although the wound would be the death of him, it would be the life of him too.

• I love you all, you hear? Nothing turns MY stomach. I'll kiss your gallstones, your ulcers, your cancers, your bleeding piles - and they'll all disappear! I'm the miracle man.
  • Sammy.

• All my parents gave me was their fumbly hands: I got their hands inside me to this day.
  • Sammy.

• And then she saw, and was instantly destroyed in a way that would insist upon her living.

Novels

• The Human Season (1960)
• The Pawnbroker (1961)
• The Tenants of Moonbloom (1962)
• The Children at the Gate (1962)