Childhood Quote by Emily M. Danforth Download Open image ““The afternoon my parents died, I was out shoplifting with Irene Klauson.”” — Emily M. Danforth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Childhood Death Parenting Trauma-experiences
“They were my parents. Dead. They died in their bed under freakish circumstances three months ago, leaving my brothers and me devastated and bankrupt.” — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“My mother was in the bathtub crying and I was standing outside the door waiting, just in case she decided to slip her head… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“I was a vampire, and... someone was trying to call me? When my parents had said that not even death could pry me from… — Helen Keeble Copy Share Image
“I ran back into the emergency room crying, yelling, and screaming, “Somebody please help my mother. He is going to kill her!” — Russell Vann Copy Share Image
“One by one, using my fingers like tweezers, I pulled them out, and I couldn’t help but wonder why the parents of my girlfriends… — Tim O'Rouke Copy Share Image
“And my dad, who was somehow still dead, did what he sometimes did―died again, seconds after my waking.” — Jeannie Vanasco Copy Share Image
“My mother called the cops and demanded they remove me from the house. I was never sure if she had me removed because she was scared of me or mad that all her alcohol was in puddles mixed with glass and my blood. When the police and paramedics brought me into the sunlight, I saw. I saw the glass in… — Debra Anastasia Copy Share
“A half-drowned stranger was more exciting than a bruised and exhausted daughter. She could be dying for all they'd care, she thought angrily, picking… — Vivien Alcock Copy Share Image
“I take four or five heavy steps beyond the front door and Mom comes rushing down the hallway. "Shane! What in the hell-" Now she sees me, in all my dignified glory. I tell her I'm fine. Swear I stuck up for my sister, not an alien but an angel. By the time I get to, "I think I might… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share
“It appeared that spending my formative years getting smacked around by my dad may have earned me the privileged of getting smacked around by… — Veronica Wolff Copy Share Image
“I saw an infinity of such dreary evenings stretching out ahead of me. Trapped in a dirty old house with a grieving old woman… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
“Now there was photographic evidence of me with a girl. Lindsey pack the camera in her duffel while I contemplated the film inside it,… — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
“I've got the weed," Jane said, and we all laughed the way you laugh when you're trying to be brave in the face of… — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
“It felt really good to do something that made no sense at all.” — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
“What is it that I’m doing again?” “You know that already,” she said. “You just think that you don’t, but you do. It’s what… — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
“But Ruth was wrong, too. There was more than just one other world beyond ours; there were hundreds and hundreds of them, and at… — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
In the embrace's release I caught the scent again. Unmistakable. Marijuana. These homos were high as kites. — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
“Everything was heightened the way it always is when summer is slipping away to fall, and you're younger than eighteen, and all you can… — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
You can't catch somebody doing something when they're not hiding. — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
“...when I closed my eyes and saw her drinking tea and opened them and still could see her, and I wanted so much to… — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
“I felt like I needed something official to show me how all of this should feel, how I should be acting, what I should… — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
“Children's lives are always beginning and adults' lives are always ending. Or is it the opposite? Your childhood is always ending and your adult… — Alison Espach Copy Share Image
“From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
When I talk about my childhood I used to say it as if it was scripted and I'd make jokes because it was a… — Kerry Katona Copy Share Image
Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
It's a very familiar type of place where people either go to their house on the lake or they get together in different places.… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
