---
title: "13 Lost-innocence Quotes by 13 authors"
description: "Browse 13 Lost-innocence quotes by 13 authors. Discover the best Lost-innocence sayings and thoughts."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17f/alan-bradley-1571_life_could-there-be-shadier-sides-of-life-of_1317380.png"
---

> [“Could there be shadier sides of life of which I was not yet aware? I didn't like to think that there were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bradley/could-there-be-shadier-sides-of-life-of-which-i-was-not-yet-aware-i/)

[Alan Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bradley/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17f/alan-bradley-1571_life_could-there-be-shadier-sides-of-life-of_1317380.png)

> [“The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-nabokov/the-nostalgia-i-have-been-cherishing-all-these-years-is-a/)

[Vladimir Nabokov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-nabokov/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ca/vladimir-nabokov-198_cherish_the-nostalgia-i-have-been-cherishing-all_990934.jpg)

> [“We reinvent our childhoods in deep colors, but are forced to face reality the moment we open our eyes.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/courtney-m-privett/we-reinvent-our-childhoods-in-deep-colors-but-are-forced-to-face/)

[Courtney M. Privett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/courtney-m-privett/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09f/courtney-m-privett-51336_children_we-reinvent-our-childhoods-in-deep-color_2515514.jpg)

> [“Most of the songs were based round the theme of lost innocence and as that's precisely what we were experiencing at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicky-wire/most-of-the-songs-were-based-round-the-theme-of-lost-innocence-and-as/)

[Nicky Wire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicky-wire/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a57/nicky-wire-52592_loss-of-innocence_most-of-the-songs-were-based-round-the-t_1281679.jpg)

> [“There are times when girls are inspired, when they want the risks to go on and on. They want to be heroines,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/there-are-times-when-girls-are-inspired-when-they-want-the-risks-to/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65e/alice-munro-1231_childhood_there-are-times-when-girls-are-inspired_912666.png)

> [“Erecto . It said it should allow you to erect something.” Nolan snorts. “Yeah. I don't think we have a problem in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-a-wills/erecto-it-said-it-should-allow-you-to-erect-something-nolan-snorts/)

[H.A. Wills](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-a-wills/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/000/h-a-wills-101585_blowjob_erecto-it-said-it-should-allow-you-to-er_1557227.jpg)

> [“She looks like an empty shell of a woman with her soul hovering above her. We believe in spiritual guías in Santo…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raquel-cepeda/she-looks-like-an-empty-shell-of-a-woman-with-her-soul-hovering-above/)

[Raquel Cepeda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raquel-cepeda/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a9/raquel-cepeda-13059_empty-shell_she-looks-like-an-empty-shell-of-a-woman_170324.png)

> [“Something died in the American people on November 22, 1963—call it idealism, innocence or the quest for moral excellence. It is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-shelby-downard/something-died-in-the-american-people-on-november-22-1963-call-it/)

[James Shelby Downard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-shelby-downard/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c24/james-shelby-downard-245666_adventure_something-died-in-the-american-people-on_2382078.jpg)

> [“Though I myself have come to this safe harbour – if safety can be found in this life – yet I mourn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/k-w-jeter/though-i-myself-have-come-to-this-safe-harbour-if-safety-can-be-found/)

[K.W. Jeter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/k-w-jeter/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/416/k-w-jeter-27902_innocence_though-i-myself-have-come-to-this-safe-h_3183086.jpg)

> [“And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-scott-card/and-then-the-queen-wept-with-all-her-heart-not-for-the-cruel-and/)

[Orson Scott Card](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-scott-card/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46b/orson-scott-card-134_children_and-then-the-queen-wept-with-all-her-hea_1067991.jpg)

> [“(WHEN I WAS A CHILD) I was told that I was insane, seeing doctors in hospitals far away from home. LITTLE WHITE…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-chouette/when-i-was-a-child-i-was-told-that-i-was-insane-seeing-doctors-in/)

[Laura Chouette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-chouette/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/64c/laura-chouette-14275_childhood-memories_when-i-was-a-child-i-was-told-that-i-was_735799.jpg)

> [“Dabbling in the sandbox gives Rabbit a small headache. Over at the pavilion the rubber thump of Roofball and the click of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/dabbling-in-the-sandbox-gives-rabbit-a-small-headache-over-at-the/)

[John Updike](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-updike/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b6/john-updike-396_1960_dabbling-in-the-sandbox-gives-rabbit-a-s_141489.png)

> [“devouring their dark lips, dark with wine and fleeting love, an ancient memory love had promised but finally never gave, until there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/devouring-their-dark-lips-dark-with-wine-and-fleeting-love-an-ancient/)

[Mark Z. Danielewski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-z-danielewski/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d6/mark-z-danielewski-2497_darkness_devouring-their-dark-lips-dark-with-wine_2963122.jpg)

```json
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@graph": [
        {
            "@type": "ItemList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lost-innocence/#itemlist",
            "name": "Lost-innocence Quotes",
            "numberOfItems": 13,
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Could there be shadier sides of life of which I was not yet aware? I didn't like to think that there were - but at the same time I didn't like to think that there weren't.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Alan Bradley"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bradley/could-there-be-shadier-sides-of-life-of-which-i-was-not-yet-aware-i/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17f/alan-bradley-1571_life_could-there-be-shadier-sides-of-life-of_1317380.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17f/alan-bradley-1571_life_could-there-be-shadier-sides-of-life-of_1317380.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17f/alan-bradley-1571_life_could-there-be-shadier-sides-of-life-of_1317380.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Could there be shadier sides of life of which I was not yet aware? I didn't like to think that there were…” — Alan Bradley",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Vladimir Nabokov"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-nabokov/the-nostalgia-i-have-been-cherishing-all-these-years-is-a/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ca/vladimir-nabokov-198_cherish_the-nostalgia-i-have-been-cherishing-all_990934.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ca/vladimir-nabokov-198_cherish_the-nostalgia-i-have-been-cherishing-all_990934.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ca/vladimir-nabokov-198_cherish_the-nostalgia-i-have-been-cherishing-all_990934.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow…” — Vladimir Nabokov",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“We reinvent our childhoods in deep colors, but are forced to face reality the moment we open our eyes.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Courtney M. Privett"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/courtney-m-privett/we-reinvent-our-childhoods-in-deep-colors-but-are-forced-to-face/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09f/courtney-m-privett-51336_children_we-reinvent-our-childhoods-in-deep-color_2515514.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09f/courtney-m-privett-51336_children_we-reinvent-our-childhoods-in-deep-color_2515514.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09f/courtney-m-privett-51336_children_we-reinvent-our-childhoods-in-deep-color_2515514.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“We reinvent our childhoods in deep colors, but are forced to face reality the moment we open our eyes.” — Courtney M. Privett",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Most of the songs were based round the theme of lost innocence and as that's precisely what we were experiencing at the time, we tended to look inwards rather than outwards.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Nicky Wire"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicky-wire/most-of-the-songs-were-based-round-the-theme-of-lost-innocence-and-as/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a57/nicky-wire-52592_loss-of-innocence_most-of-the-songs-were-based-round-the-t_1281679.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a57/nicky-wire-52592_loss-of-innocence_most-of-the-songs-were-based-round-the-t_1281679.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a57/nicky-wire-52592_loss-of-innocence_most-of-the-songs-were-based-round-the-t_1281679.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Most of the songs were based round the theme of lost innocence and as that's precisely what we were…” — Nicky Wire",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“There are times when girls are inspired, when they want the risks to go on and on. They want to be heroines, regardless. They want to take a joke beyond where anybody has ever taken it before. To be careless, dauntless, to create havoc--that was the lost hope of girls.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Alice Munro"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/there-are-times-when-girls-are-inspired-when-they-want-the-risks-to/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65e/alice-munro-1231_childhood_there-are-times-when-girls-are-inspired_912666.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65e/alice-munro-1231_childhood_there-are-times-when-girls-are-inspired_912666.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65e/alice-munro-1231_childhood_there-are-times-when-girls-are-inspired_912666.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“There are times when girls are inspired, when they want the risks to go on and on. They want to be heroines…” — Alice Munro",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 6,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Erecto . It said it should allow you to erect something.” Nolan snorts. “Yeah. I don't think we have a problem in that department\" \"I thought it might use air magic to lift something up,\" \"Oh I’m sure it does. With a little blowing, it’ll lift right up.” “More like explode,”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "H.A. Wills"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-a-wills/erecto-it-said-it-should-allow-you-to-erect-something-nolan-snorts/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/000/h-a-wills-101585_blowjob_erecto-it-said-it-should-allow-you-to-er_1557227.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/000/h-a-wills-101585_blowjob_erecto-it-said-it-should-allow-you-to-er_1557227.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/000/h-a-wills-101585_blowjob_erecto-it-said-it-should-allow-you-to-er_1557227.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Erecto . It said it should allow you to erect something.” Nolan snorts. “Yeah. I don't think we have a…” — H.A. Wills",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 7,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“She looks like an empty shell of a woman with her soul hovering above her. We believe in spiritual guías in Santo Domingo. Hers is her own self. I can see Mami’s soul desperately trying to find its way back into her small body.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Raquel Cepeda"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raquel-cepeda/she-looks-like-an-empty-shell-of-a-woman-with-her-soul-hovering-above/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a9/raquel-cepeda-13059_empty-shell_she-looks-like-an-empty-shell-of-a-woman_170324.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a9/raquel-cepeda-13059_empty-shell_she-looks-like-an-empty-shell-of-a-woman_170324.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a9/raquel-cepeda-13059_empty-shell_she-looks-like-an-empty-shell-of-a-woman_170324.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“She looks like an empty shell of a woman with her soul hovering above her. We believe in spiritual guías in…” — Raquel Cepeda",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 8,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Something died in the American people on November 22, 1963—call it idealism, innocence or the quest for moral excellence. It is the transformation of human beings which is the authentic reason and motive for the Kennedy murder.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "James Shelby Downard"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-shelby-downard/something-died-in-the-american-people-on-november-22-1963-call-it/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c24/james-shelby-downard-245666_adventure_something-died-in-the-american-people-on_2382078.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c24/james-shelby-downard-245666_adventure_something-died-in-the-american-people-on_2382078.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c24/james-shelby-downard-245666_adventure_something-died-in-the-american-people-on_2382078.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Something died in the American people on November 22, 1963—call it idealism, innocence or the quest for…” — James Shelby Downard",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 9,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Though I myself have come to this safe harbour – if safety can be found in this life – yet I mourn my former simple days. I have lost my Innocence, in more ways than one. I have seen the gears and furious machinery of the world that lies unreckoned beneath our feet. No longer can I note, as other men do, the passing hours upon the heavens' gilded face, without a vision of a hidden master-spring uncoiling to its final silence. I await the day when all clocks shall stop, including the one that ticks within my breast. Do thou the same, Reader, and profit from my example.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "K.W. Jeter"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/k-w-jeter/though-i-myself-have-come-to-this-safe-harbour-if-safety-can-be-found/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/416/k-w-jeter-27902_innocence_though-i-myself-have-come-to-this-safe-h_3183086.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/416/k-w-jeter-27902_innocence_though-i-myself-have-come-to-this-safe-h_3183086.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/416/k-w-jeter-27902_innocence_though-i-myself-have-come-to-this-safe-h_3183086.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Though I myself have come to this safe harbour – if safety can be found in this life – yet I mourn my former…” — K.W. Jeter",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 10,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and savaged everywhere he could. But for the boy who had somehow turned into that man, the boy whose gentle hand had comforted her childhood hurts, the boy whose frightened voice had cried out to her at the end of his life, as if he wondered why he had gotten lost inside himself, as if he realized that it was too, too late to get out again.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Orson Scott Card"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-scott-card/and-then-the-queen-wept-with-all-her-heart-not-for-the-cruel-and/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46b/orson-scott-card-134_children_and-then-the-queen-wept-with-all-her-hea_1067991.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46b/orson-scott-card-134_children_and-then-the-queen-wept-with-all-her-hea_1067991.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46b/orson-scott-card-134_children_and-then-the-queen-wept-with-all-her-hea_1067991.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and…” — Orson Scott Card",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 11,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“(WHEN I WAS A CHILD) I was told that I was insane, seeing doctors in hospitals far away from home. LITTLE WHITE PILLS inside small transparent containers that could fit my baby teeth like seashells, I dreamed. WHEN I WAS A CHILD my mind made up things— not castles of sand, nor careless childish dreams. NOW I AM GROWN I can’t see myself anymore, behind walls of lights I painted on as a child. (BUT NOWADAYS) I cannot think back and wonder if these things ever really happened.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Laura Chouette"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-chouette/when-i-was-a-child-i-was-told-that-i-was-insane-seeing-doctors-in/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/64c/laura-chouette-14275_childhood-memories_when-i-was-a-child-i-was-told-that-i-was_735799.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/64c/laura-chouette-14275_childhood-memories_when-i-was-a-child-i-was-told-that-i-was_735799.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/64c/laura-chouette-14275_childhood-memories_when-i-was-a-child-i-was-told-that-i-was_735799.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“(WHEN I WAS A CHILD) I was told that I was insane, seeing doctors in hospitals far away from home. LITTLE…” — Laura Chouette",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 12,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Dabbling in the sandbox gives Rabbit a small headache. Over at the pavilion the rubber thump of Roofball and the click of checkers call to his memory, and the forgotten smell of that narrow plastic ribbon you braid bracelets and whistlechains out of and of glue and of the sweat on the handles on athletic equipment is blown down by a breeze laced with children's murmuring. He feels the truth: the thing that has left his life has left irrevocably; no search would recover it. No flight would reach it. It was here, beneath the town, in these smells and these voices, forever behind him. The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "John Updike"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/dabbling-in-the-sandbox-gives-rabbit-a-small-headache-over-at-the/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b6/john-updike-396_1960_dabbling-in-the-sandbox-gives-rabbit-a-s_141489.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b6/john-updike-396_1960_dabbling-in-the-sandbox-gives-rabbit-a-s_141489.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b6/john-updike-396_1960_dabbling-in-the-sandbox-gives-rabbit-a-s_141489.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Dabbling in the sandbox gives Rabbit a small headache. Over at the pavilion the rubber thump of Roofball and…” — John Updike",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 13,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“devouring their dark lips, dark with wine and fleeting love, an ancient memory love had promised but finally never gave, until there were too many kisses to count or remember, and the memory of love proved not love at all and needed a replacement, which our bodies found, and then the giggles subsided, and the laughter dimmed, and darkness enfolded all of us and we gave away our childhood for nothing and we died”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Mark Z. Danielewski"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/devouring-their-dark-lips-dark-with-wine-and-fleeting-love-an-ancient/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d6/mark-z-danielewski-2497_darkness_devouring-their-dark-lips-dark-with-wine_2963122.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d6/mark-z-danielewski-2497_darkness_devouring-their-dark-lips-dark-with-wine_2963122.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d6/mark-z-danielewski-2497_darkness_devouring-their-dark-lips-dark-with-wine_2963122.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“devouring their dark lips, dark with wine and fleeting love, an ancient memory love had promised but finally…” — Mark Z. Danielewski",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "CollectionPage",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lost-innocence/#webpage",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lost-innocence/",
            "name": "Lost-innocence Quotes",
            "isPartOf": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website"
            },
            "mainEntity": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lost-innocence/#itemlist"
            },
            "primaryImageOfPage": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17f/alan-bradley-1571_life_could-there-be-shadier-sides-of-life-of_1317380.png"
            },
            "description": "Browse 13 Lost-innocence quotes by 13 authors. Discover the best Lost-innocence sayings and thoughts.",
            "breadcrumb": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lost-innocence/#breadcrumb"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lost-innocence/#breadcrumb",
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "name": "Home",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "name": "Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "name": "Topics",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "name": "Lost Innocence Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lost-innocence/"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "WebSite",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "publisher": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Organization",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "logo": {
                "@type": "ImageObject",
                "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png",
                "width": 512,
                "height": 512
            }
        }
    ]
}
```
