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“I liked to be off by myself, away from the eyes of adults who always had some task or errand to demand of an unoccupied child.”

Book:The Secret Chord

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The Secret Chord

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Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks is an Australian journalist known for her in-depth investigative reporting and unique narrative style. She has over 30 years of experience in the news industry, having worked as a journalist and editor for The Sydney Morning Herald, among other news organizations. more

“In an instant he forgot Joe's poem about Japan except the part about 'you are the bell, and I am the tongue of the bell, ringing you,' and a new sound entered his life, like when he was a kid and he first heard the sound of horses clip-clopping and he asked his mother in wonder, "What's that sound, because I've never heard it before?”

Poetry Childhood The Piper S Son

Book:The Piper's Son

Source: The Piper's Son

“Sometimes when the three of us were together on our own, we would have a good time. I was pretty young, but sometimes we would go off in the woods and build forts and fight Indians and I think things were about as close to fine as they ever got right then during those times. In the woods. No parents. No yelling.”

Children Young Childhood Youth Child Child Abuse

Book:An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

Source: An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

“I prepared to get out of bed, tossing the covers aside, the sheets dank-smelling, gray from my body. I wondered how long it had been since I'd changed them. And then I wondered how often you were supposed to change them. These were the kinds of things you didn't learn. I changed bedclothes after sex, now, finally, and that I only learned a few years ago from a movie on TV: Glenn Close, some thriller, and she'd just had sex and is changing the sheets and I can't remember the rest, because all I was thinking was: Oh, I guess people change sheets after they have sex. It made sense, but I'd never thought of it. I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.”

Life Lessons Childhood Neglect

Book:Dark Places

Source: Dark Places

“I mostly felt fortunate, to have lived here, in this house, in this town, with this family and these parents, and tried to think of all the things that had influenced me along the way.”

Childhood

Book:Little Victories: Perfect Rules for Imperfect Living

Source: Little Victories: Perfect Rules for Imperfect Living

“Like many writers, I lived inside of books as a child.”

Reading Childhood Writers Bookworm

Book:Bad Feminist

Source: Bad Feminist

“Would've been useful when I was about eight," I said. "I used to have wicked nightmares." I did, too: stupid dreams about being chased by Elmo. A psycho Elmo with eyes like that Chucky doll. I'd wake up screaming and Vicky would come running in and ask what the nightmare was about. I never told her. I was too embarrassed.”

Dream Parent Childhood Young Adult Wicked Nightmare Creepy Psycho Spooky Kid Stalker Sesame Street Doll Puppet Elmo Embarrassing Moment Chucky Gives Me The Willies

Book:The World Without Us

Source: The World Without Us

“I glanced in the first open door and stopped short. Desks. Four tiny desks. A wall of faded posters of alphabet animals. A blackboard, still showing the ghost of numbers. I blinked, certain I was seeing wrong. Derek nudged my legs, telling me to get moving. I looked at him, and I looked at the classroom. This was where Derek had grown up. Four tiny desks. Four little boys. Four young werewolves. For a second, I could see them—three boys working at the three clustered desks, Derek alone at the fourth, pushed slightly away, hunched over his work, trying to ignore the others. Derek nudged me again, whining softly, and I looked down to see him eyeing the room, every hair on his neck on end, anxious to get away from this place.”

Childhood Werewolves Chloe Derek Lab Bad Memory

Book:The Reckoning

Source: The Reckoning

“I still can remember some of the poems and proverbs, I learnt in my childhood.”

Learning Childhood Poems

Author:Laillah Gifty Akita

“This is part of the answer to the riddle of childhood unhappiness: their minds need, and deserve, a whole world of utterly unfenceable freedom where everything has othering, everything is radiant with the possibilities of elseness.”

Thinking Education Childhood Educational Philosophy

Author:Jay Griffeths

“You can't go home again. Your childhood is lost. The friends of your youth are gone. Your present is slipping away from you. Nothing is ever the same.”

Philosophy Childhood Heraclitus

Book:The fragments of the work of Heraclitus of Ephesus on nature; translated from the Greek text of Bywater, with an introd. historical and critical

Source: The fragments of the work of Heraclitus of Ephesus on nature; translated from the Greek text of Bywater, with an introd. historical and critical

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