908 quotes found
“I dont want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was then, and me as I am now, and me like Ill be in the future. I want to be me and nothing but me. I want to be cr...”
“He told me that the phrase the happiest days of your life referred to your school days.This seemed nonsensical to me then, and I suspected it of being either adult propaganda or, more likely, confi...”
“It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood,A beautiful day for a neighbor.Would you be mine?Could you be mine?...It's a neighborly day in this beauty wood,A neighborly day for a beauty.Would you be ...”
“One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too d...”
“You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.”
“This story sounds as though it were invented, but it is true from beginning to end. There are people who have to pay for the smallest things in life with their very substance and their spinal cord....”
“Its the map of my childhood, my sadness, my Eden, my hell and home. when I look at it now, my heart swells with gratitude, then shrinks with disgust.”
“Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.”
“Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating.”
“The realization that my parents, too, felt pain and fear frightened me more than any strangers could.”
“I know I was writing stories when I was five. I dont remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.”
“Do you have a personal mantra? Mine comes from a childhood song. "Wherever I go the grass grows greener.”
“My parents are going to kill me!""That seems rather harsh...”
“The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance to, music with strong vocals and catchy melodies. Boys, on the other hand,...”
“I've loved him my whole life, and somewhere along the way, that love didn't change but grew. It grew to fill the parts of me that I did not have when I was a child. It grew with every new longing o...”
“I like the smell of my Grandma's soap - I used to sit in the bath and eat it.”
“We were all grinning and everyone had their eyes open for once. Ian must have been moving - his hand was blurred. It was exactly how I imagined us, right down to Kieran's arm around me and the peac...”
“He didn't want to play football. He wanted to be told the truth.”
“A Second Childhood.When all my days are endingAnd I have no song to sing,I think that I shall not be too oldTo stare at everything;As I stared once at a nursery doorOr a tall tree and a swing.Where...”
“No matter how much he talked, she never answered him, but he knew she was still there. He knew it was like the soldiers he had read about. They would have an arm or a leg blown off, and for days, e...”
