Quotes Tagged With :childhood

I liked numbers because they were solid, invariant; they stood unmoved in a chaotic world. There was....

We played with the moon all night, painting faces on its blank cheek, shining its spotlight into sleeping....

That is surely childhood's end, when you look at a thing like a rabbit needing skinned and have to say:....

There would remain no sign of you ever having played in this house. Your childhood is going to be swept....

I like working on stories where I can explore the darker corners of childhood without illustrations but....

A child is never the author of his own history.

Eyes so young, so full of pain ... Two lonely drops of winter rain ... And no tear could these eyes sustain....

Within that quiet little girl with no apparent needs lived a person with a great imagination. In that....

It will never be all that I want it to be…But it is always twice what I expected.

Everyone knows that there are some odors that send you directly back to memories of your childhood -....