Tuesday, November 17th. 1896
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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense.
Tags: imagination nostalgia childhood fairies
Children expect their mothers to love them, no matter what. Those who don't get this tend to feel cheated the rest of their lives.
Bella PollenTags: childhood motherhood
The tree was so old, and stood there so alone, that his childish heart had been filled with compassion; if no one else on the farm gave it a thought, he would at least do his best to, even though he suspected that his child's words and child's deeds didn't make much difference. It had stood there before he was born, and would be standing there after he was dead, but perhaps, even so, it was pleased that he stroked its bark every time he passed, and sometimes, when he was sure he wasn't observed, even pressed his cheek against it.
Karl Ove KnausgårdTags: consciousness words compassion solitude time childhood trees
On the stairs he was crying so much he hardly saw where he was going - not a mad boo-hoo but wailing sheets of tears, shaken into funny groans by the bump of each step as he hurried down.
Alan HollinghurstPhoebe realized how very wrong she’d been about this house, this family. It was far darker, more dangerous than the places she’d grown up in. In the dingy little apartments her mother rented, everything was out in the open. Their lives were dirty and squalid, but they didn’t pretend to be anything else. Here, things seemed so normal, so perfect, but it was all a deception.
Jennifer McMahonLike seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar can inspire a confrontation with the mystery of time.
Francine ProseTags: childhood handwriting
Childhood trauma does not come in one single package.
Asa Don BrownTags: childhood psychology research recovery child-abuse posttraumatic-stress-disorder trauma resiliency ptsd psychologist childhood-trauma child-trauma childhood-abuse childhood-traumas
Resiliency is not gender-, age-, or intellectually specific...
Asa Don BrownTags: childhood psychology research recovery trauma resiliency ptsd psychologist
Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone...
Asa Don BrownTags: childhood psychology research recovery trauma resiliency ptsd psychologist
Resiliency is the essence of a global positive framework...
Asa Don BrownTags: childhood psychology research recovery trauma resiliency ptsd psychologist
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