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“If shadows were caused by the interplay between light and Life, a child's was still forming. An adult's was inextricably bound to his body, but a child had a tenuous relationship to his own permanence, and thus, his own shadow.”

Ifs Children Stills Body Light Adults Shadow Bounds Permanence

Book:The Shadow Thieves

Source: The Shadow Thieves

“When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be heroines, swordswomen. Even if she had to rage across all China, a swordswoman got even with anybody who hurt her family. Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound.”

Ifs Stories Girl Hurt Wife Feet Dangerous Grew Grew Up Adults Independence Slave Bounds China Rage Chinese Heroines

Book:The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Source: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

“Indeed, the great Leonardo (da Vinci) remained like a child for the whole of his life in more than one way. It is said that all great men are bound to retain some infantile part. Even as an adult he continued to play, and this was another reason why he often appeared uncanny and incomprehensible to his contemporaries.”

Men Way Children Said Reason Play Whole Adults Bounds One Way Reason Why Great Men Uncanny Infantile Leonardo

Book:Leonardo da Vinci

Source: Leonardo da Vinci

“Finally, this is one way to reconcile the delight in beauty with the bourgeois life. Aschenbach, on one reading, has spent virtually all of his adult life balancing his restrained homosexuality, which is bound together with his sensitivity to beauty and thus with his artistic vocation, against the demands of conventional society.”

Way Together Reading Demand Adults Bounds Delight One Way Artistic Conventional Homosexuality Sensitivity Vocation Bourgeois Reconcile

Author:Philip Kitcher

“Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.”

May Children Facts Grows Process Simple Growing Up Adults Bounds Inferiors Forgiven Linked Incentives

Author:Philip Larkin

“I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.”

Pain Past Adults Shadow Bounds Thread My Past

Book:Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

Source: Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

“You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.”

Life Years Friendship Childhood Inspirational Life Months Adults Bounds Substitutes Steel New Friends

Author:Alexander McCall Smith