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“Most adults make adulthood seem like a disease that is caused by a deficiency of playfulness.”

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“So I wasn't only afraid of becoming my mother, but a mother. I was afraid of being the steadfast, stationary anchor who provides a jumping-off place for another young adventurer whose travels I might envy and whose future is still unmoored and unmapped.”

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Book:We Need To Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin

“Children learn bullying behavior from adults, but no one talks about this transfer of destructive behavior.”

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Book:The Bullied Brain: Heal Your Scars and Restore Your Health

Source: The Bullied Brain: Heal Your Scars and Restore Your Health

“I don't need to know whether or not we are capable of magic. Because learning to love yourself, and finding people who love yourself too, that's the real magic.”

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Book:What Magic Is This?

Source: What Magic Is This?

“And when we had talked together for a great time hope returned to me and I rejoiced that I had not killed myself.”

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Book:The Horse and His Boy

Source: The Horse and His Boy

“Some children’s lives begin before the end of their parents’ childhood.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I think that’s the problem. Teenagers think their parents should have it all figured out, but the truth is, adults don’t really know how to navigate life any better than teenagers do.”

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Book:Regretting You

Source: Regretting You

“Sitting on the rail at the foot of the bed, he played a beautiful lullaby to his mother on his pipe. He made it up himself out of the way she said "Peter," and he never stopped playing until she looked happy.”

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Book:The Little White Bird; Or, Adventures in Kensington Gardens

Source: The Little White Bird; Or, Adventures in Kensington Gardens

“No one looked like her, which she'd thought didn't matter, since skin shouldn't matter. Who cares if others judged her for it? Those who saw her only for her skin were themselves blind.”

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Book:Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales

Source: Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales

“World-building is not filling a map with names. It is deciding what this world has already gained and lost.”

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Author:SAICHKARA

“Had any children? the doctor asks. I say No. And close my lips—the other half of the answer. If this were a party, I'd feel I had to go on, even if the other person hadn't asked Why not? Or Are you planning on having any? They feel free to ask. And almost always, I explain something about wanting them but not enough, or how I wish I had two lives: in one of them I'd have a child by now. But it's no good, not doing something never sounds as real as doing it. I seem to stand in for reserve, my life a keeping back, a state of being not in active service.”

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Book:No Moon

Source: No Moon