"When Tana was six, vampires were Muppets, endlessly counting, or cartoon villains in black cloaks with red polyester lining."

Innocence, Childhood, Perception, Fear

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"When Tana was six, vampires were Muppets, endlessly counting, or cartoon villains in black cloaks with red polyester lining."

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"It is so heartbreaking what we do to children in this world, how they are destroyed."

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"God created all people good."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer."

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"If I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking."

Patrick Rothfuss, Australian Athlete

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"I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!"

Tennessee Williams, American Dramatist

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"And if not for the caterpillars and butterflies, who will I talk to? You'll be far away. And as for larger creatures, I'm not afraid. I have my thorns...to protect me."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Novelist

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"Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone."

Mary Astor, American Actress

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"As children play games with imaginary things, initially a seeker indulges in little things. So simple people believe in simple things."

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"This woman might have a daughter, but she was as innocent and pure as newly fallen snow."

Gena Showalter, American Novelist

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"She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air."

Nature

"I survive at the edge of friends circles."

Psychology

"I'm sorry,' she said to each of the dead as she unzipped and unfastened their things, 'I'm sorry Courtney. I'm sorry Marcus. I'm sorry Rachel. I'm sorry Jon. I'm sorry I'm alive and you're dead. I'm sorry I was asleep. I'm sorry I didn't save you and now I'm taking your things. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry."

Emotion

"What an author doesn't know could fill a book."

Writing

"Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying."

Honesty

"People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death."

Life

"They wore their strange beauty like war paint."

Aesthetics

"The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies."

Truth

"I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did."

Ambiguity

"Remember that I'm still a monster. I can listen to you scream and cry and beg and I still won't let you out."

Power