"Hat's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them."

Childhood, Growth, Change, Desire

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"Hat's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them."

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"Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain."

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"I do not remember asking adults about anything, except as a last resort."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics."

Stephen King, American Author

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"A child is child."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Granny," said Esk, in the exasperated and remarkably adult voice children use to berate their wayward elders. "I don't think you quite understand. I don't want to hit the ground. It's never done anything to me."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Leading up to Christmas, there was talk of Santa. But I'd never even heard of Santa. Bunty, one of the workers who I grew to love, tried to explain, 'He brings little angels like you, presents."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"A child's best friend is often the one telling bedtime stories."

Eraldo Banovac, Croatian Scientist

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"The happiness of childhood, the calming of a child's fears and the healthy development of its self-confidence depend directly upon love."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect."

Jim Butcher, American Author

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"Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Do you expect to attend many balls, if I may ask?' and I said, 'Yes, when I am rich and famous.' and Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Yes, when the moon is made of green cheese."

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"Mrs. Binnie says we throw out more with a spoon than the men can be bringing in with a shovel...Binnie-like. Our men like the good living. And what if we don't be having too much money, Patsy dear? Sure and we do have lashings of things no money could be buying. There'll be enough squeezed out for Cuddles when the time comes. The Good Man Above will be seeing to that."

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"A woman who has a sense of humor possesses no refuge from the merciless truth about herself. She cannot think herself misunderstood. She cannot revel in self-pity. She cannot comfortably damn any one who differs from her."

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"If the bards of old the true has toldThe sirens have raven hair.But over the earth since art had birth,They paint the angels fair."

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"I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage."

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"She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms."

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"Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help."

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"But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?"

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"Oh, Gilbert, don't let's ever grow too old and wise... no, not too old and silly for fairyland."

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"There is so much in the world for us if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it ourselves- so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful for."

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