Children Quote by Andrei Codrescu

“I always thought I didn't have real childhood memories. That my history fit into a few lines. One one page, maybe. In large print.…

— Alejandro Zambra

“There was something about the people you grew up around, the ones you'd seen throughout your childhood, the folks you couldn't remember not knowing.…

— J.R. Ward

“Who but my mother held those small pieces of my childhood? Where would they go when she was gone?”

— Lorna Crozier

“I think I would like that, knowing it had wound up in that room. Up on one of the shelves above my bed, for…

— Paul Auster

“It was merely the small, warm hand of a twelve-year-old girl, yet those five fingers and that palm were like a display case crammed…

— Haruki Murakami

“The live, warm presence of my mother had disappeared. In its place stood this remoteness posing as Mama. Her anxiety was unbearable to me.…

— Vivian Gornick

“When I was ten years old, I realized I'd been kidnapped as a toddler. Of course, I would have to have been a fairly…

— Augusten Burroughs

“I think repressing what happened is what saved me in my childhood. I was able to use my imagination to create happy events, but…

— Erin Merryn

“It was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much, had seen too much, I…

— William Faulkner

“Ghosts are not what I remember of my childhood; but somehow they infuse memories of myself as a child, the little girl in a…

— Yolanda A. Reid

“All I had to do was open a book - to see the stories bleeding from page to page. To see the memories etched…

— Tahereh Mafi

“One minute we were a memory in the making, and in the next we were just a memory. Something to haunt me for the…

— Karina Halle