“These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.” HeartI CanMomentsRememberChildhoodRecallsFragmentsIrresistibleShiver Book:The Prince of Tides: A Novel Source: The Prince of Tides: A Novel
“Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.” WayWantMomentsDiesChildhoodAmbitionAdults Book:In One Person: A Novel Source: In One Person: A Novel
“We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the state of refugees. Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between we can create.” WritingStatesMomentsStoriesProblemTurnsGoneChildhoodReaderSolutionsRefugeeTime Passes Author:Mohsin Hamid
“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.” PeopleWorldWayLifeMadeMomentsHappinessJoyHurtWalksPleasureGreaterChildhoodMissingSmall ThingsGreater ThingsHappy Childhood Author:Neil Gaiman
“We looked at each other. And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I’d liked Boris and felt happy around him from almost the moment I’d met him was that he was never afraid. You didn’t meet many people who moved freely through the world with such a vigorous contempt for it and at the same time such oddball and unthwartable faith in what, in childhood, he had liked to call “the Planet of Earth.” PeopleWorldReasonMomentsEarthFeltChildhoodPlanetsMetsMovedFaultsDespiteContemptSpectacularVigorousOddballs Author:Donna Tartt
“CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY” FirstsEndsStatesMomentsOpportunityChildhoodObstaclesEducationalPuddles Author:Michael K. Williams
“Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put my finger in the fire and it hurt,"), which is probably the earliest kind we learn. Then there's the logically convincing, which we probably come to first through maths, in the context of Pythagoras's theorem or something similar, and which, if we first encounter it at exactly the right moment, bursts on our minds like sunrise with the whole universe playing a great chord of C Major.” IfsMindFirstsKindDifferentHardWholeMomentsFormScienceUniverseHurtFireChildhoodRocksMajorsLogicOur ChildrenFingersVariousConvictionMathCertaintyEncountersSunriseIt HurtsConvincingChordsPersonal ExperiencesTheoremsRight Moment Author:Philip Pullman
“Childhood's over the moment you know you're going to die.” KnowsMomentsDiesChildhoodAgingCrow Author:Michael Wincott
“If you grow up ... in the suburbs of anywhere, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable, this moment is directly connected to those childhood imaginings. And for anybody who's on the downside of advantage, and relying purely on courage, it's possible.” IfsKindMomentsDreamSeemsGrowsGrowing UpChildhoodAdvantageConnectedSuburbsUnattainable Author:Russell Crowe
“Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming.” MomentsDreamFantasyChildhoodCapacityFlyingFlightAviationMiraculousRapidsOmnipotence Author:Joyce Carol Oates