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“So you know that feeling, (...) when life has been poisoned by something, right from the start. Like black liquid poured into a basin of clean water.”

Book:Vom Ende der Einsamkeit

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Vom Ende der Einsamkeit

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“In her loneliness, Lee collected a legion of animals in her room, where she left the window open to let them come and go. There were barn kittens and baby mice and tiny raccoons and little possum. They always grew up and eventually left her, but she was okay with that. Sometimes she'd see them in the woods months or years after, and they'd make eye contact, and an understanding would pass between them. It was the type of memory that she questioned now, skeptical of its plausibility. Yet, she could still remember the feeling of falling asleep with quivering fur against her cheek.”

Childhood Animals Pets

Book:Strange Folk

Source: Strange Folk

“History has often denied full moral thinking capabilities in women, minorities, the poor, the colonized, and most other human groups. Today, however, those most likely to be thought incapable of moral thought are children. What if, however, childhood taught us to think about ethical thinking in a more expansively human way?”

Philosophy Childhood Morality

Book:Ethics in Light of Childhood

Source: Ethics in Light of Childhood

“Ethical responsibility is not a capability installed in children that they otherwise lack. It does not appear at some magical age of reason. Rather, it is integral to human thinking throughout life.”

Philosophy Childhood Morality Ethics

Book:Ethics in Light of Childhood

Source: Ethics in Light of Childhood

“Storytelling fosters empathy, builds bridges of understanding, and cultivates a supportive community that can collectively work toward breaking the chains of trauma.”

Childhood Trauma

Book:The Julie Fairhurst Story: Healing Generations, One Story at a Time

Source: The Julie Fairhurst Story: Healing Generations, One Story at a Time

“Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on Anna-he did not yet believe that-but because the impression she had made on him gave him happiness and pride.”

Happiness Romance Expression Pride King

Book:ANNA KARENINA

Source: ANNA KARENINA

“When, if ever, do people find themselves if they’ve had somebody else tell them who they are for all of their formative years?”

Childhood Finding Yourself Coming Of Age

Book:You Cannot Mess This Up: A True Story That Never Happened

Source: You Cannot Mess This Up: A True Story That Never Happened

“There was a particular brand of humor employed by twelve- and thirteen-year-old girls, especially when they weren't in the presence of boys: it was at once disgusting and innocent bawdy and naive. When it wasn't being used for ill - when no one was its target - this type of humor delighted Louise.”

Humor Childhood

Book:The God of the Woods

Source: The God of the Woods

“Life was like being dragged through concrete in circles, wet and setting concrete that dried with each rotation of my unwilling body. As a child, I was light. It didn’t matter too much; I slid through it, and maybe it even felt like a game, like I was just playing in mud, like nothing about that slipperiness would ever change, not really. But then I got bigger and it started drying on me and eventually I turned into an uneven block, chipping and sparking on the hard ground, tearing off into painful chunks.”

Life Death Childhood Concrete Heaviness

Book:The Death of Vivek Oji

Source: The Death of Vivek Oji

“The boy in me still carries the memories of those days when I lifted crab pots out of the Colleton River before dawn, when I was shaped by life on the river, part child, part sacristan of tides.”

Childhood Memory Fishing Southern Tides River Childhood Memories Boyhood Crab

Book:The Prince of Tides

Source: The Prince of Tides

“The boy is only four," Dad said. "Just a child. And children don't always believe they're seen unless they move. That's all he's doin'. Just movin' so we remember to see him. So we know that in this home, he is here with us.”

Childhood

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