Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.
Jenny HanTags: nostalgia childhood memories eight childhood-memories
It's remarkable the logic we'll build around a misapprehension.
Sloane CrosleyTags: childhood logic misunderstandings
Writing is my passion. Words are the way to know ecstasy. Without them life is barren. The poet insists, language is a body of suffering and when you take up language you take up the suffering too. All my life I have been suffering for words. Words have been the source of the pain and the way to heal. Struck as a child for talking, for speaking out of turn, for being out of my place. Struck as a grown woman for not knowing when to shut up, for not being willing to sacrifice words for desire. Struck by writing a book that disrupts. There are many ways to be hit. Pain is the price we pay to speak the truth.
bell hooksTags: poetry writing childhood memoir
Her love of words is a private passion - one she would rather not share. In the house of her childhood though everything had to be shared. If she tried to hold anything back, they would search and find the hidden places. Her written words, discovered, read were just the source of more pain and punishment. This was why she loved poetry. They did not always understand it so they left it alone.
bell hooksTags: poetry writing childhood memoir
Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about their history. They continue to live in their repressed childhood situation, ignoring the fact that is no longer exists, continuing to fear and avoid dangers that, although once real, have not been real for a long time.
Alice MillerTags: fear past reality history childhood danger emotions memory denial facts memories amnesia repression emotional-neglect child-sex-abuse chile-abuse repressed
Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.
Alice MunroTags: childhood
Whatever we know as children, this is the world, eaten whole and without question.
Debra DeanTags: childhood
Awakening your spiritual self is like having a second childhood with faulty parents, broken bones and proverbial brussel sprouts.
Christopher HawkeTags: spiritual childhood spirituality spirit
That I always had space to run and that I had the opportunity to play with my imagination. I also loved that my mum drew and painted with me. I always remember that my parents loved me, and that is essential when you're a kid; they always showed me how proud they were of my achievements. It's also very important when parents put their kids' drawings on the refrigerator.
Taylor SwiftTags: life growing-up happiness change childhood living fun achievements
...even a poisoned, desolate childhood can be missed.
Julianna BaggottTags: childhood bad-childhood
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