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“My world was very limited in size and experience. Small things took on extra importance, at least to a child.”

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Book:An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

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“You were very serious,” her grandmother continued. “You had these big brown eyes and you were always going, ‘What’s that? What’s that?’ You wondered what everything was. You would frown and point a lot, like a conductor looking for your orchestra. You always seemed very busy, like you were between appointments all the time, but you were just a little child.”

Life Childhood Curiosity

Author:Carrie Fisher

“A pure white puppy followed on the girl’s heels, barking, and the girl laughed in the breathless, drunken way of children as she ran into the hallway.”

Love Happiness Memories Childhood Laughter Purity Playfulness Heartwarming Moments

Book:Dreamfever

Source: Dreamfever

“Zombie nerds. They probably had the flyers already made up for this. There was nobody creepier than the zombie nerds, college guys who not only watched zombie movies and read zombie novels and played zombie video games, but actually formed clubs and collected zombie-killing weapons. Gun shops around there actually stocked zombie targets, and special zombie bullets with glow-in-the-dark tips. Not toy bullets, mind you. These guys would go out in the woods and train and shoot and defend to the death their right to stay in childhood until age thirty-five.”

Childhood Training Zombies Guns Zombie Apocalypse Preppers Extended Childhood Gun Shops Zombie Bullets Zombie Clubs Zombie Killing Weapons Zombie Movies Zombie Nerds Zombie Novels Zombie Targets Zombie Video Games

Book:This Book Is Full of Spiders

Source: This Book Is Full of Spiders

“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.”

Childhood Leisure

Book:The Secret Chord

Source: The Secret Chord

“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

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