"What does the future look like?'A deep blue, fading into golds and reds-like fire on a horizon. Afterlight. It's a sky that wants you to guess if the sun is about to rise or set."

Childhood, Vision, Future, Imagination, Transition

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"I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome."

Joan Didion, American Author

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"And on some level it walways felt like kids paying at being grown."

John Green, American Author

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"While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one."

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"Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books."

Theodore Roosevelt, American President

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"A person begins childhood with a mind that is essentially a blank slate " a tabula rasa " before receiving outside impressions. Early childhood experiences and perceptions begin the formulation of a state of conscious awareness, the infantile steps in forming a personality, developing social and emotional behavior, and acquiring practical and book knowledge. Childhood plays a critical role in forming our final version of a self-concept."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us."

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"I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood."

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"When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew."

Thom Gunn, British Poet

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"In the midst of the vagaries of life, they provide us a trip to the land of goodness and fairies, of imaginations and possibilities.A childhood that wasn't spent watching cartoons or reading comic strips, no wonder, seems too dull to imagine."

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"I don't want to lose you-Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?"

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"I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company."

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"Free the fire fluttering inside her rib cage. Work her muscles, the bow, the violin, until she played herself to ash and embers and left the rest of the world behind to smolder."

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"I pulled myself from his mind, day by day, piece by piece, memory by memory, until there was nothing of Ruby left to weigh him down or keep him bound to my side."

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"When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boy."

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"Do I look as pretty as I feel?"

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"I was looped in on your little romantic quest. The only way to get me out without it looking suspicious was to suggest that I come after you dumb asses, since I supposedly know your crappy personality so well."

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"Etta saw the way Sophia took a deep breathe, set her shoulders back, and moved with practiced grace on her way out - and she understood something about the other girl, truly understood for the first time. Sophia wanted it, when she was only ever sent out."

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