“The moment you killed something – a living creature or a false hope – was the moment you came of age. Loss… — Jennifer Miller Copy Share Image
“He noticed, without understanding, how the flames were visible now against the dull light. Evening was come, not with calm beauty but… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“More than anything, Natalie wanted to move to the bed, take Sophie's hand, sit beside her.Lay her head against her shoulder. But… — Glen Hirshberg Copy Share Image
“This is what making love must be like, she thinks. At twelve years old, she understands little more than that it will… — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
“So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
[Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
“Of all her putative fathers -- Max Schlepzig and masked extras on one side of the moving film, Franz Pökler and certainly… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Don't we all look back in longing, those of us who had happy childhoods? Because the greatest loss we ever know is… — Carolyn Hart Copy Share Image
“And when the clouds do clear away Get a momentary chance to see The thing I've been trying to beat to death… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
“The loss of innocence, and the arrival of knowingness, can become an addiction.” — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“No mi kršćani upućeni smo po središtu našega Creda - 'mučen pod Poncijem Pilatom' - u povijest u kojoj je bilo razapinjanja… — Johann Baptist Metz Copy Share Image
“the fabric of family, the limits of love, the loss of innocence and the birth of knowledge.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“He remembered a version of himself untrammeled by expectation, unimpeded by Ego. He had suffered in the many years since then, seeking… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
“ The Summer of Love had already given way to the the winter of Who the f--k are you? ” — Jaffe Cohen Copy Share Image
“It has to do with me because it has to do with you," Young says, his voice dropping. "Jaewon-ah, we've been friends… — Axie Oh Copy Share Image
“Most of the songs were based round the theme of lost innocence and as that's precisely what we were experiencing at the… — Nicky Wire Copy Share Image
a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation. — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“I no longer believe that people are born without virtue. It gets beaten out. Misfortune threshes our souls as a flail threshes… — Danielle Teller Copy Share Image
“But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like--history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image