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“I think the closest thing to a time machine that I've ever found is the Children's section of a library.”

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“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.' I said, 'Are you a monster? Like Ursula Monkton?' Lettie threw a pebble into the pond. 'I don't think so,' she said. 'Monsters come in all shapes and sizes, Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.' I said, 'People should be scared of Ursula Monkton.' 'P'raps. What do you think Ursula Monkton is scared of?' 'Dunno. Why do you think she's scared of anything? She's a grown-up, isn't she? Grown-ups and monsters aren't scared of things.' Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters. And as for grown-ups...' She stopped talking, rubbed her freckled nose with a finger. Then, 'I'm going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”

Children Truth Age Fear Fantasy Childhood Adults Scared Monsters Adulthood Inside Outside

Book:The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Source: The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“What you knew in your childhood is true; the Otherworld of magic and enchantment is real, sometimes terribly real - and certainly more real than the factual reality which our culture has built up, brick by brick, to shut out colour and light and prevent us from flying.”

Reality Magic Childhood Otherworld

Book:A Complete Guide to the Soul

Source: A Complete Guide to the Soul

“To My Mother You too, my mother, read my rhymes For love of unforgotten times, And you may chance to hear once more The little feet along the floor.”

Mother Childhood

Book:A Child's Garden of Verses

Source: A Child's Garden of Verses

“I felt somehow happy to be so high above the world - a childish feeling, I grant, but we can't help becoming children as we leave social conventions behind and come nearer to nature. All life's experience is shed from us and the soul becomes anew what it once was and will surely be again”

Nature Freedom Childhood

Book:A Hero of Our Time

Source: A Hero of Our Time

“Şımarmak çocukluğumuzdaki ruha misafirliğe gitmektir.”

Book:Heba

Source: Heba

“I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?”

Book:Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

“Throughout my childhood I believed that what I thought about was different from what other kids thought about. It was not necessarily more profound, but there was a struggle going on inside me to find some sort of creative or spiritual or aesthetic way of seeing the world and organizing it in my head.”

Writing Childhood Thoughts

Book:Bird by Bird

Source: Bird by Bird

“Over the years our mother has beaten us with belts, shoes, rulers, extension cords, hair brushes, a wooden spoon, a fly swatter, a toilet brush, wire coat hangers, wooden coat hangers and sometimes one of our own toys. When you get whacked by your own paddleball paddle or you have to watch your sister getting spanked with a badminton racquet that she asked Santa Claus (AKA Grandma) to bring, you don't feel much like playing with those things ever again.”

Childhood Trauma Child Abuse Physical Abuse Bad Mothering Paperboy

Book:Paperboy: A Dysfunctional Novel

Source: Paperboy: A Dysfunctional Novel

“Do you remember how this life of yours longed in childhood to belong to the grown-ups? I can see that it now longs to move on from them and is drawn to those who are greater yet. That is why it does not cease to be difficult, but also why it will not cease to grow.”

Suffering Childhood

Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

“Games are for childhood, and sometimes I think I lost my childhood young.”

Book:Talking It Over

Source: Talking It Over