and yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes.
Herman MelvilleTags: intelligence innocence sailor herman-melville billy-budd
Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.
John WyndhamThings that are truly innocent don’t need to be labelled as such.
Zoë HellerTags: innocence
The world’s crawling with stupid, innocent girls, and I’m just one of them, self-consciously chasing after dreams that will never come true.
Haruki MurakamiTags: innocence dreaming chasing naivete
The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them. That is the secret to family life.
Joyce Carol OatesTags: innocence family children
In the middle of a wrist's suicide slash-line, below the layered skin and above the pulse, there's an acupuncture point that says, Get back to who you were meant to be. This is the heart spot, the center. Your whole life the skin on that place will stay closest to being a baby's skin, as close as you can get anymore to the way you started, the way you once thought you'd always be.
Monica DrakeTags: innocence
That's the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with.
Dave MatthesTags: innocence love music hate eternity death childhood beat book guitar monsters memories irony comfort stage rock-and-roll drums
I’d prefer you accuse my son, so he can defend his innocence rather than prolong unnecessary guilt." (Spoken by Bracke, told by Eric)
Shannon A. ThompsonTags: innocence fiction guilt young-adult defense accusations
Innocence could be lost more than once after all.
Selena KittTags: innocence morality lost ethics morals evil loss sin purity guilt corruption moralism innocent pure purity-myth defile innocence-lost pureness
The more you face the truth, the angrier you will probably become. You have a right to be angry about being sexually abused. You have a right to be angry with the perpetrator, regardless of who it was, how long ago the sexual abuse occurred, or how much he/she has changed.
Beverly EngelTags: innocence anger rape victim sexual-abuse abuser perpetrator truth-inspirational
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