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“There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.”

Book:Through the Garden Gate

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“Children are not like us. They are beings apart: impenetrable, unapproachable. They inhabit not our world but a world we have lost and can never recover. We do not remember childhood -- we imagine it. We search for it, in vain, through layers of obscuring dust, and recover some bedraggled shreds of what we think it was. And all the while the inhabitants of this world are among us, like aborigines, like Minoans, people from elsewhere safe in their own time-capsule.”

Childhood Memory Adulthood Chilldren

Book:Moon Tiger

Source: Moon Tiger

“I remember my own childhood vividly..I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them. (In conversation with Art Spiegelman, The New Yorker, September 27, 1993)”

Childhood

Author:Maurice Sendak

“That wish to enter into an elusive element which had urged Cosimo into the trees, was still working now inside him unsatisfied, making him long for a more intimate link, a relationship which would bind him to each leaf and twig and feather and flutter.”

Nature Childhood Rebellion

Book:The Baron in the Trees

Source: The Baron in the Trees

“Wherever you turn, you run up against your childhood and hurt yourself because it’s sharp-edged and hard, and stops only when it has torn you completely apart. It seems that everyone has their own and each is totally different. My brother’s childhood is very noisy, for example, while mine is quiet and furtive and watchful. No one likes it and no one has any use for it.”

Childhood

Book:Childhood

Source: Childhood

“Your pants didn't get smaller, Mommy," I assured her. "Your butt got bigger.”

Humor Childhood Silly

Book:No More Dead Dogs

Source: No More Dead Dogs

“The girl looks out the window, watching the gentle, familiar blue sky fade into darkness. The stars come out, slowly at first and then all together, diamond-bright, each one a new world to discover. But no matter how long the girl looks, she feels nothing. Puzzled, she looks for the girl who wanted to be an explorer, the girl who wanted to learn deep-sea diving and mountain-climbing, the girl who wanted to travel the stars. But she can't find her. That girl died when her parents did, in a little shop in the slums of November. And now she has no soul left to shatter. She closes the shade over the window.”

Childhood Idealism Loss Of Innocence

Book:This Shattered World

Source: This Shattered World

“Never surrender to you're passions. Dream and live to excess.”

Love Believe Soul Dream Happiness Romance Joy Faith Karma Soul Mate Twin Flames Kindred Spirits Karmic Sated Truth Devour Wantin

Book:Unrequited

Source: Unrequited

“I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a chance to know the brother that I love, before it's too late, before we're not children anymore.”

Love Childhood Brother Child Ender

Book:Ender’s Game

Source: Ender’s Game

“It's funny how much of childhood is about proximity. Like who your best friend is is directly correlated to how close your houses are; who you sit next to in music is all about how close your names are in the alphabet. Such a game of chance.”

Childhood

Book:To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

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