"One of the privileges of childhood is that some of the world is mediated by adults."

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"One of the privileges of childhood is that some of the world is mediated by adults."

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"Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words."

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"For many of us, the curtain has just come down on childhood."

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"The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed."

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"When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"Beyond the boundaries of herself, her parents and the enclosing garden walls, were open fields and other waiting places she still knew nothing of " lies of the land, perhaps. What Katie did know is that out there in the lonely nowhere was a special quietness, free of the sounds of daytime birds or foxes at night " and that it was a quietness she might like to listen to one day."

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"Don't try to make me grow up before my time."

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"Kids chase the love that eludes them."

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"Texting is more direct. You don't have to use conversation filler."

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"The idea that we can be exactly what the other desires is a powerful fantasy."

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"But, of course, what is up on Facebook is her edited life."

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"I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day."

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"Sometimes a citizenry should not simply 'be good'. You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent."

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"We see a first generation going through adolescence knowing their every misstep, all the awkward gestures of their youth, are being frozen in a computer's memory."

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