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“Children were much braver than they were given credit for. She said that childhood was a frightening time and that hearing scary stories was a way of feeling less alone.”

Book:The Clockmaker's Daughter

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The Clockmaker's Daughter

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Kate Morton

Kate Morton, born in 1976, is an acclaimed Australian author known for her intricate family histories and emotional storytelling. more

“Early reading is serendipitous, and rightly so. Gloriously so. Libraries favor serendipity, invite it; the roaming along a shelf, eyeing an unfamiliar name, taking this down, then that--oh, who's this? Never heard of her--give her a go? That is where, and how, you learn affinity and rejection. You find out what you like by exploring what you do not.”

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Book:Ammonites And Leaping Fish: A Life In Time

Source: Ammonites And Leaping Fish: A Life In Time

“What Columbus felt when he landed in America, what the astronauts felt when they landed on the moon, is what a child feels when he discovers the earth, between the ages of two and seven.”

Childhood Discovery

Book:The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution

Source: The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution

“Cosmic Ordering is a dish best served today.”

Happiness Money Focus Goals Fearless Law Of Attraction Life Changing Manifestation Mind Power Metaphysical Mind Body Spirit New Age Goal Setting Manifesting Cosmic Ordering Abundance Creation Millionaire Mindset Author Stephen Richards

Book:Cosmic Ordering Guide

Source: Cosmic Ordering Guide

“Happiness is a consolation for those who cannot orgasm yet … or anymore.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The best thing you can do for your child is to nurture and indulge this curiosity by providing a highly stimulating environment.”

Childhood Child Parenting Tips

Book:How to Raise a Founder With Heart: A Guide for Parents to Develop Your Child’s Problem-Solving Abilities

Source: How to Raise a Founder With Heart: A Guide for Parents to Develop Your Child’s Problem-Solving Abilities

“Childhood is the cruelest time. A place of extremes, in which one might this day sail carefree amongst the silvery stars, only to be plunged tomorrow into the black woods of despair.”

Childhood

Book:The Clockmaker's Daughter

Source: The Clockmaker's Daughter

“Their dark forms are larger than life, because memories like that grow along with your body, so that adults from our childhood always resemble an extinct race of old gods, still towering over us.”

Childhood Memory Childhood Memories

Author:Stefan Hertmans

“Con los árboles pasaba todo lo contrario que con las personas: éstas, cuanto mayores eran, más pequeñas parecían volverse. Con los árboles, funcionaba al revés.”

Childhood

Book:Noah Barleywater Runs Away

Source: Noah Barleywater Runs Away

“It was in that tree that I learned to read, filled with the passions that can only come to the bookish, grasping, very young, bewildered by almost all of what I read, sweating in the attempt to understand a world of adults I fled from in real life but desperately wanted to join in books. (I did not connect the grown men and women in literature with the grown men and women I saw around me. They were, to me, another species.)”

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Book:An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir

Source: An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir

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