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“We’re born kind, but it slips away as we age. Remember how fervently we searched for the truth when we were kids?”

Book:Cocoon

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“There was something about the stories bound between those covers, and the myriad species of Folk weaving in and out of them, each one a mystery begging to be solved. I suppose most children fall in love with faeries at some point, but my fascination was never about magic or the granting of wishes. The Folk were of another world, with its own rules and customs---and to a child who always felt ill-suited to her own world, the lure was irresistible.”

Childhood Books Fascination Faeries Fairytales

Book:Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

Source: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

“Now the last person who remembered me as a child is gone, I told myself. And only then did I burst into sobs, like a child.”

Death Parent Loss Childhood Child

Book:Time Shelter

Source: Time Shelter

“We expect so much of children, hovering above them like giant, invincible gods. What a racket to discover as an adult, how little we have to pass down.”

Life Wisdom Childhood Parenting Adulthood

Book:And Yet: Poems

Source: And Yet: Poems

“Trauma is a topographical map written on the child, and it takes a lifetime to read.”

Childhood Trauma Childhood Trauma Show Russian Doll

Author:Natasha Lyonne

“Calvin's Mom walks in on him. On the carpet he's been smashing rocks with a baseball bat. Mom freaks out. MOM: What on earth would make you DO something like that? CALVIN: Poor genetic material? Mom slaps her head with one hand; while her other hand expresses an almost uncontrollable rage. Now he's in his room, evidently in time out. CALVIN: Bad guess.”

Humor Childhood Parenting Satire

Book:The Days Are Just Packed

Source: The Days Are Just Packed

“CALVIN: Our country was founded a very long time ago, roughly around 200 B.C. TEACHER: (Glowering): 200 B.C.? CALVIN: Before Calvin. CALVIN: (Now sitting in the corner, wearing a dunce cap) That's what's IMPORTANT!”

Humor History Childhood Satire

Book:The Days Are Just Packed

Source: The Days Are Just Packed

“Life is small when you’re a kid. We get attached to what we can control and resist what we can’t.”

Childhood

Book:Tryst Six Venom

Source: Tryst Six Venom

“Will the freshness, unconcern, need for love and strength of faith you posses as a child ever return? What time could have been better than when the two finest virtues - innocent gaiety and a limitless need for love - were life's only impulses? Where are those ardent prayers? Where is the best gift - those pure tears of tenderness? A comforting angel would fly down to dry those tears with a smile and waft sweet reveries into the uncorrupted imagination of childhood.”

Love Childhood

Book:Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

Source: Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

“I have stored these memories the way any child stores memory--a haphazard collection of sharp, bright objects socked away on the darkest shelves in the dustiest corners of our mental filing systems. They stay there, those memories, rattling in the dark. Scratching at the walls. Disrupting our careful ordering of what we think is true. And injuring us when we forget how dangerous they are, and we grasp too hard.”

Childhood Memory Trauama

Book:When Women Were Dragons

Source: When Women Were Dragons

“My mother would let me outside to play on the sidewalk. Getting to know me better, she fastened me to the railing by a rope so I couldn't wander off or go into the street.”

Humor Childhood Memoir

Book:Lady Slippers

Source: Lady Slippers

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