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“The worst part of childhood is not knowing that bad things pass, that time passes. A terrible moment in childhood hovers with s kind of eternity, unbearable.”

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Book:Aquarium

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“It’s what we’re all trying to do, right? Remember a time that was better. Re-create a moment of that memory as we let the crisp Coke bubble down our throats. Riding bikes on a summer day. Sitting on the curb and watching the streetlights come on. Playing in the sprinklers with a group of neighbor kids. We’re all trying to salvage a time when we dreamed beyond our reality and thought monsters were under our beds instead of peppering our family trees. We’re trying to harness those fleeting moments that turned our ordinary lives into something extraordinary. In the sepia haze of those memories, we are beautiful.”

Life Memories Childhood Memory

Book:Nowhere But Home

Source: Nowhere But Home

“It felt now as if I'd never known them and I couldn't know them again. It seemed to me that whatever had existed back in the place where I'd grown up was so far away now, impossible to retrieve.”

Change Childhood

Book:Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“Eventually he understood that he was crying for himself. He was ashamed of the man whom he had become, mourning the man whom he had expected to be when he'd been a boy.”

Life Dreams Childhood Adulthood Hopes Odd Thomas Brother Knuckles

Book:Brother Odd

Source: Brother Odd

“The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”

Happiness Hope Do

Author:allan chaimers

“The Unexpected Gift Torn asunder from her slumber in the hour of half past three The child knew the tyrannical regime and followed instinctively. -(slice from Enigmatic Evolution)”

Life Children Poetry Childhood Tyranny Child Abuse

Book:Enigmatic Evolution

Source: Enigmatic Evolution

“The very matrix of our ability to love and bond in later life, maternal sensitivity – or lack thereof – also determines cultural tenor.”

Childhood Motherhood Attachment Sensitivity Attachment Parenting

Book:Mama: Love, Motherhood and Revolution

Source: Mama: Love, Motherhood and Revolution

“Children are often like hostages under the care of authority, with spankings and groundings nudging them like guns pointed at their skulls, threatening to shoot if the wrong words are uttered.”

Young Women Feminism Childhood Abuse Memoir Southern Controversial Just Maggie Number Another

Book:Just Another Number

Source: Just Another Number

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