Building Quote by Catherynne M. Valente

“They pray that their children will be brave and clever and strong, that they will tell the true stories instead of the easy ones.…

— Leigh Bardugo

Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again.

— Moira Kelly

Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories…

— Steven Johnson

You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats.

— Maya Angelou

Little kids' minds are very, very strong. They bend. There's a lot of tensile strength and they don't break. We start our kids off…

— Stephen King

When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in.

— Daniel Greenberg

“You must build castles in the air, how else will you learn to build?”

— Haresh Sippy

If you've got kids you know you've only got one prayer: "Let my kids outlive me." That's the bottom of everything.

— Peter Weller

“[There are] games children must conjure up to combat an awful fact of childhood: the fact of their vulnerability to fear, anger, hate and…

— Maurice Sendak

Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting lies or…

— Emma Donoghue

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

— Maurice Sendak

The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your…

— David Mitchell