Quotes Tagged With :childhood

Whatever we know as children, this is the world, eaten whole and without question.

I remember the pain I felt, and wonder why a man who was such an accomplished liar had to tell the truth....

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

There is much that I do not know and I'd like to know even less.

Childhood trauma does not come in one single package.

Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has....

A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a....

A child is never the author of his own history.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves....

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected....