Childhood Quote by Gene Wolfe

“Cause I don't think we ever really get over our childhood. It's always there, waiting.”

— Ted Dekker

“My time was growing short. I could feel it. And I could see it in the sad, worn faces of those I passed by.…

— Loren Niva

“Surely one’s childhood concerns must be hard to encounter decades later, regardless of the life fallen between.”

— Ruthanna Emrys

“I wonder if this is how it feels to grow old. Knowing that time is still passing but you’re no longer a part of…

— Ryan Galloway

“Oh hours of childhood, when behind each shape more than the past appeared and what streamed out before us was not the future. We…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Actually, time had always been passing. I had just managed to avoid thinking about it very much. It would be hard for me to…

— Banana Yoshimoto

“I was a happy child. I felt loved. I never would've imagined that things would turn out the way that they did".”

— Bella Forrest

“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

“I was so young, I tell myself now. I was twenty-one, only recently farewelled by childhood, although at the time childhood seemed like ancient…

— Mary-Rose MacColl

“We were still children, for all that we thought we weren’t. We were in that in-between place, the twilight between childish things and grown-up…

— Christina Henry

“...it occurred to me that I was stuck somewhere in between, with neither the blind confidence of youth that everything would turn out as…

— Neve Maslakovic

“I thought, too, about time. How fleet it is, and how certain, and like death how indifferent to our commentary upon it. Once not…

— Charles Finch