"Grown-ups love figures. When you talk to them about a new friend, they never ask questions about essential matters."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Novelist

Childhood, Observation, Curiosity, Behavior

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"Play like a child, because you are still that beautiful child."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"A child is a child."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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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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"Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday."

Margaret Mitchell, American Novelist

Childhood, History, Power, Tradition, Class

"I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in the middle of dull, long adult books, the kind with no pictures or conversations."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Childhood, Adultery, Perception, Truth

"Having in our childhood felt primal awe for the spectacle of the holiday, we are told to age into feeling sullen and resentful. You are supposed to proclaim Santa dead like preadolescent Nietzsches and decry the whole month as an orgy of crass commercialism."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

Childhood, Awe, Holiday, Resentment

"Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again."

C. S. Lewis, 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

Childhood, Innocence, Truth, Wisdom, Regret

"For her next birthday she'd asked for a telescope. Her mother had been alive then, and had suggested a pony, but her father had laughed and bought her a beautiful telescope, saying: "Of course she should watch the stars! Any girl who cannot identify the constellation of Orion just isn't paying attention!" And when she started asking him complicated questions, he took her along to lectures at the Royal Society, where it turned out that a nine-year-old girl who had blond hair and knew what the precession of the equinoxes was could ask hugely bearded famous scientists anything she liked. Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe?"

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being."

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"That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man."

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"But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you."

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"Play like a child, because you are still that beautiful child."

"A child is a child."

"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."

"Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday."

"I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in the middle of dull, long adult books, the kind with no pictures or conversations."

"Having in our childhood felt primal awe for the spectacle of the holiday, we are told to age into feeling sullen and resentful. You are supposed to proclaim Santa dead like preadolescent Nietzsches and decry the whole month as an orgy of crass commercialism."

"Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us."

"One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again."

"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."

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"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."

"I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings."

"The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time."

"Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are."

"It's hard luck always having to be a judge."

"How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being."

"That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man."

"But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you."

"I may be a little like the grown-ups. I must have grown old."

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction."