Family Quote by Betty Smith

“The moment you killed something – a living creature or a false hope – was the moment you came of age. Loss of innocence…

— Jennifer Miller

“The loss of innocence, and the arrival of knowingness, can become an addiction.”

— Charles Baxter

Don't we all look back in longing, those of us who had happy childhoods? Because the greatest loss we ever know is not the…

— Carolyn Hart

[Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And partly drawn…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

“So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream…

— Thomas Pynchon

“This is what making love must be like, she thinks. At twelve years old, she understands little more than that it will begin with…

— Sheri Holman

So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream…

— Thomas Pynchon

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained…

— Bruce Springsteen

I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.

— Steve Toltz

Mama and dada, mommy and daddy, mother and father, or mom and dad, it seems as though the names for parents embark on a…

— Anonymous

“The loss of innocence is inevitable, but the death of innocence disturbs the natural order. The death of innocence causes an imbalance and initiates…

— B.G. Bowers

To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an…

— Emile M. Cioran

a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.

— Dodie Smith

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

— Jodi Picoult

'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't.

— Lynda Barry