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“Child hood is a shield to the disgust and nausea of life. It is the only time in which a man escapes from the mill of life. Ah! To be a child again, when the notions of poverty, wealth and success means nothing.”

Childhood Innocence

Book:I, Vagabond

Source: I, Vagabond

“A whole summer ahead to cross off the calendar, day by day. Like the goddess Siva in the travel books, he saw his hands jump everywhere, pluck sour apples, peaches, and midnight plums. He would be clothed in trees and bushes and rivers. He would freeze, gladly, in the hoarfrosted ice-house door. He would bake, happily, with ten thousand chickens, in Grandma's kitchen.”

Childhood Beginning Summertime

Book:Dandelion Wine

Source: Dandelion Wine

“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.”

Stories Childhood Adventure Social Media Storytelling Adventure Fiction

Author:Benjamin Conlon

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

Book:Washington Black

Source: Washington Black

“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.”

Childhood Elaine Risley

Book:Cat’s Eye

Source: Cat’s Eye

“I was traumatized, but my vocabulary was improving.”

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