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“And children are still the way you were ...as a child, sad and happy in just the same way and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children, and the gr...”
“Children have no business expressing opinions on anything except "Do you have enough room in the toes?”
“They had laid the tender, down-ruffled little bird on a platter and appeared now to be pondering a way to eat out its heart without causing it distress.”
“I enjoy load shedding in Nepal, when it allows me to witness the dancing of fireflies in the next field, and at the same time to hear children playing a chanting clapping game because there is no T...”
“For a child, it is in the simplicity of play that the complexity of life is sorted like puzzle pieces joined together to make sense of the world.”
“We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them.”
“So I had nothing to distract me from my books and their other worlds that swallowed me whole, from Narnia to the Wisconsin woods, from a small town in Sweden to the red earth of Prince Edward Islan...”
“Once-upon-a-time we buried the memories we didn't want.”
“A good vocabulary is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabulary of one's age group. It comes from reading books above one.”
“Kids never jumped head first from the top ledge. Never. It seemed forever beforeStoney came back to the surface. Most of the white bubbles had already disappeared.”
“Sometimes, It's awesome to be childish with your partner .Otherwise you are missing out.”
“Sometimes I return back to the state of mind I had as a child when I believed nothing was impossible.”
“The last thing we want to admit is that the forbidden fruit on which we have been gnawing since reaching the magic age of twenty-one is the same mealy Golden Delicious that we stuff into our childr...”
“This book is dedicated to all the students I've known over the years who've taught me humility and what it means to really be a kid.”
“I still can remember some of the poems and proverbs, I learnt in my childhood.”
“A person's integrity develops early in life. Once formed, it is difficult to alter, change, or improve.”
“The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation.”
“Have you noticed how children never bypass a puddle of water, but jump, splash, and slosh right through it? That's because they know an important truth: Life was meant to be lived; puddles were mea...”
“Later, in my adulthood, I will read the book again, even watch the movie, and understand that I wasnt equipped, as a child, to make room for arguments that would undermine every single choice made ...”
“But nothing warps time quite like childhood”
