"I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old."

Childhood, Happiness, Memory, Realization

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"I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old."

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"I do not think I liked being a child very much. It seemed like something one was intended to endure, not enjoy: a fifteen-year-long sentence to a world less interesting than the one that the other race inhabited."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Childhood, Endurance, Memory, Reflection

"When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Childhood, Experience, Courage, Mother

"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

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"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."

Tom Stoppard, English Dramatist

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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

Childhood, Children, Imagination, Preparation, Strength

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

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Childhood, Aging, Innocence, Imagination, Renewal

"The fundamental emotional need of every child is being-with."

Dragos Bratasanu, Romanian Scientist

Childhood, Attachment, Emotion, Love

"What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles, it was a miraculous world."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Childhood, Wonder, Miracle, Life

"More silence; children's silence, so desperately desired by adults yet eerie when it finally occurs."

Zadie Smith, British Novelist

Childhood, Silence, Observation, Truth, Contemplation

"I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story is not intended for them. I am telling it to those who have a better knowledge of man. The adult who has learned to translate a part of his feelings into thoughts notices the absence of these thoughts in a child, and therefore comes to believe that the child lacks these experiences, too. Yet rarely in my life have I felt and suffered as deeply as at that time."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Childhood, Feelings, Adultery, Story, Absence

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"Slowly I swam up from the bottom of a black sleep."

Healing, Sleep, Awakening, Darkness, Emotion

"I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives."

Humanity, Love, People, Life, Truth

"What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from."

Gender, Future, Identity, Relationship

"I may never be happy, but tonight I am content."

Peace, Contentment, Happiness, Night

"I don't know what I ate, but I felt immensely better after the first mouthful. It occurred to me that my vision of the fig-tree and all the fat figs that withered and fell to the earth might well have arisen from the profound void of an empty stomach."

Perception, Vision, Hunger, Reality, Life

"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."

Desire, Limitation, Experience, Learning

"I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass."

Reflection, Disappointment, Expectation, Holiday, Life

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"I do not think I liked being a child very much. It seemed like something one was intended to endure, not enjoy: a fifteen-year-long sentence to a world less interesting than the one that the other race inhabited."

"When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels."

"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."

"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."

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

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

"The fundamental emotional need of every child is being-with."

"What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles, it was a miraculous world."

"More silence; children's silence, so desperately desired by adults yet eerie when it finally occurs."

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"Slowly I swam up from the bottom of a black sleep."

"I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives."

"What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from."

"I may never be happy, but tonight I am content."

"I don't know what I ate, but I felt immensely better after the first mouthful. It occurred to me that my vision of the fig-tree and all the fat figs that withered and fell to the earth might well have arisen from the profound void of an empty stomach."

"Talking about my fears to others feeds it."

"Dancing is the normal prelude to intercourse."

"Fixed stars govern a life."

"I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass."