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“If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.”

Ifs Children Sadness Childhood Accomplished

Author:Astrid Lindgren

“All too soon will Childhood gay Realise Life's sober sadness. Let's be merry while we may, Innocent and happy Fay! Elves were made for gladness!”

May Made Sadness Childhood Gay Innocent Realising Sober Merry Gladness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)

“I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.”

Knowing Sadness Childhood Angry Ugly Overweight Knowing Nothing

Author:Gloria Estefan

“Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.”

Children Happens Sadness Childhood Filled Happy Childhood

Author:Mark Haddon

“Your body is free but your heart is in prison. To release your heart, you simply reverse the process which locked it up. First you begin to listen for messages from your heart-messages you may have been ignoring since childhood. Next you must take the daring, risky step of expressing your heart in the outside world. . . . As you learn to live by heart, every choice you make will become another way of telling your story. . . . It is the way you were meant to exist. If you stop to listen, you'll realize that your heart has been telling you so all along.”

“I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.”

Inspirational Children Ideas Motivational Would Be My Own Healing Sadness Childhood Parenting Heal No Idea Healed Mothering

Author:Susie Bright

“So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind of sadness you feel at the end of summer. When the fireflies are gone, the ponds have dried up and the plants are wilted, weary from being so green.”

Feels Kind Ends Felt Gone Sadness Childhood Havens Summer Green Plant Brands Weary Ponds Firefly End Of Summer

Book:Dry: A Memoir

Source: Dry: A Memoir

“One strain could call up the quivering expectancy of Christmas Eve, childhood, joy and sadness, the lonely wonder of a star”

Joy Stars Wonder Sadness Childhood Lonely Strain Expectancy Christmas Eve Joy And Sadness

Author:Maud Hart Lovelace

“Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.”

Memories Sadness Childhood Unhappy Childhood Memories

Book:The Outsider, Pickman’s Model, The Rats in the Walls, The Silver Key

Source: The Outsider, Pickman’s Model, The Rats in the Walls, The Silver Key

“The two dozen commonplace childhood photographs - snowsuit, pony, tennis racket, looming fender of a Dodge - were an inexhaustible source of wonder for him, at her having existed before he met her, and of sadness for his possessing nothing of the ten million minutes of that black-and-white scallop-edged existence save these few proofs.”

Two Black White Existence Wonder Millions Sadness Childhood Minutes Source Mets Ten Photograph Proof Tennis Dozen Black And White Commonplace Possessing Racket Ponies Dodge Looming Scallops

Author:Michael Chabon

“...I have so many dreams of my own, and I remember things from my childhood, from when I was a girl and a young woman, and I haven't forgotten a thing. So why did we think of Mom as a mom from the very beginning? She didn't have the opportunity to pursue her dreams, and all by herself, faced everything the era dealt her, poverty and sadness, and she couldn't do anything about her very bad lot in life other than suffer through it and get beyond it and live her life to the very best of her ability, giving her body and her heart to it completely. Why did I never give a thought to Mom's dreams?”

Thinking Giving Heart Dream Body Remember Young Suffering Girl Opportunity My Own Ability Poverty Sadness Childhood Havens Mom Forgotten Pursue Eras Young Women

Author:Shin Kyung-sook

“I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years I spent inside my parents' marriage, under the reign of my father's rage, afer all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?”

Years Father Parent Sadness Childhood Loneliness Waste Rage Injury Survivor Reign Wrecks Parents Marriage

Book:Great House: A Novel

Source: Great House: A Novel