Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became one, you died one.
Khaled HosseiniStichwörter: childhood adulthood coming-of-age
Remember, childhood only lasts 10-12 years. There's a lot that has to be squeezed in to make for a lifetime of happy memories. ♥
Susan BranchStichwörter: childhood memories growing-up-happy
Childhood is this time of magic and monsters; hoping for one and fearing the other... The worst part of being a kid is discovering which one exists... So, I chose to believe in magic.
Thomm QuackenbushStichwörter: fear hope childhood magic monsters
I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.
Neil GaimanStichwörter: happiness childhood
Children have no business expressing opinions on anything except "Do you have enough room in the toes?
Florence KingStichwörter: family children childhood
Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
Adam PhillipsStichwörter: religion childhood adulthood
I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them
Maurice SendakStichwörter: fear imagination life fantasy childhood
The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.
Joe HillStichwörter: childhood
One of the few things I still miss from my Midwest childhood was this weird, deluded but unshakable conviction that everything around me existed all and only For Me. Am I the only one who had this queer deep sense as a kid? -- that everything exterior to me existed only insofar as it affected me somehow? -- that all things were somehow, via some occult adult activity, specially arranged for my benefit?
David Foster WallaceStichwörter: children self childhood midwest
They’d have people out looking for her, and nothing makes grown-ups quite so mad as finding a child safe when they’d been scared silly that they might find that child dead.
Jenny WingfieldStichwörter: fear childhood parenting
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