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“When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.”

Wells Might Left Behinds Sea Childhood Rivers Our Children Leaving Fountain

Book:A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

“Even now, as I write this, I can still feel that tightness. And I want you to feel it--the wind coming off the river, the waves, the silence, the wooded frontier. You're at the bow of a boat on the Rainy River. You're twenty-one years old, you're scared, and there's a hard squeezing pressure in your chest. What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did?”

Source: The Things They Carried

“What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did?”

Thinking Feels Dream Hurt Behinds Childhood Dying Cry Leaving Pity Your Dreams It Hurts Feel Like Dying

Book:The Things They Carried

Source: The Things They Carried

“Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew, forbidden books read secretively late at night. Teenage years reading -trying to read- books I'd heard were important, Naked Lunch, and The Fountainhead, Ulysses and Women in Love... It was as though I had dreamt the perfect lover, who vanished as I woke, leaving me pining and surly.”

“So you go away from where you were afraid. Some stay; some go; it's a big difference, leaving the humiliations of childhood, the morbid fear. We didn't have much to say to each other, the ones that left and the ones that stayed. Children get shamed by fear but you can't tell the adults that; they don't care. They make children into dead things like they are. If there's something left alive in you, you run. You run from the poor little child on her knees; fear burned the skin off all right; she's still on her knees, dead and raw and tender.”

Ifs Children Littles Stills Bigs Care Running Left Differences Poor Alive Childhood Adults Skins Leaving Don't Care Knees Going Away Burned Humiliation Morbid

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.”

Girl Grows Loss Behinds Growing Up Childhood Leaving Magnificent Leaving It Behind

Book:The Peach Keeper: A Novel

Source: The Peach Keeper: A Novel

“There had been no more attacks since those on Justin and Nearly Headless Nick, and Madam Pomfrey was pleased to report that the Mandrakes were becoming moody and secretive, meaning that they were fast leaving childhood.”

Childhood Becoming Leaving Reports Justin Moody Secretive Headless

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it also grew up and turned into television, leaving behind, like dead skin, transistorized talk-radio and nonstop music. . . .”

Life Behinds Our Lives Childhood Television Grew Shapes Grew Up Skins Our Children Leaving Radio Maturity Adolescence Talk Radio

Book:The New York Times Guide to the Best 1000 Movies Ever Made

Source: The New York Times Guide to the Best 1000 Movies Ever Made