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“I wanted them to realize something: When you look back on your childhood, you want to have some stories of your own. Spending the weekend on your phone doesn’t make for a very good one. So go outside. Get some poison ivy. It's not going to kill you.”

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“I do not much care for childhood. It is a astate of terrible vulnerability, and is therefore unnatural and incomaptivle with human life.”

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“My father sits in an armchair in the evenings with a board across the arms of the chair and the drawings on the board, going through them with a red pencil. Sometimes he laughs to himself while doing this, or shakes his head, or makes ticking noises through his teeth. “Idiot,” he says, or “blockhead.” I stand behind his chair, watching the drawings, and he points out that this person has put the mouth at the wrong end, that person has made no provision for a heart, yet another one cannot tell a male from a female. This is not how I judge the drawings: I find them better or worse depending on the colours.”

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Book:Cat’s Eye

Source: Cat’s Eye

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Inspirational Childhood Humorous Trauma

Book:Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

Source: Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

“and nobody needed two mothers, did they? Oh yes they did, thinks Snowman. Oh yes, they really did...”

Childhood Dystopian

Book:Oryx And Crake

Source: Oryx And Crake

“Like a child I close my eyes in the hopes that when I open them again, the natural order will be overturned, the impossible made plausible by desire alone.”

Impossible Dreams Childhood Wishes Hopes

Book:The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Source: The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“I'm like a rifle that's a little out of date but very accurate: when I love, there's a strong recoil, back to childhood, and it hurts.”

Book:The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai

Source: The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai

“From her mother, Janie learned to play charades and murder in the dark, to run three-legged races, to spot hermit thrushes, towhees (Mrs. P. said the towhee's call was "Drink your tea!"; Bea said it was "Brush your teeth!"), and tell prairie warblers from the maryland yellowthroat and the great horned from the barred owl by their calls.”

Nature Childhood Birds

Book:The End of the Point

Source: The End of the Point

“The joy from eating does not come from the exclusivity of the food, but instead from the sensitivity that we eat it with.”

Happiness Food Positive Thinking Enjoyment Sensitivity Rationality

Book:BOTH of You: Behavior. Opinion. Thinking. Happiness - The more rational we are, the more emotional we can be.

Source: BOTH of You: Behavior. Opinion. Thinking. Happiness - The more rational we are, the more emotional we can be.

“Helen was happy for them, and disdainful, and jealous of them for getting more of each other while she got less of them, and, mostly, astonished-that life could actually move forward like this into adulthood.”

Childhood Adolescence

Book:The End of the Point

Source: The End of the Point

“Oh, yes, there was a witch; there are always witches where there are children.”

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