True romance Quote by Leif Enger

“We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we are born.”

— Albert Einstein

“The years return us gradually to the afflictions and shames of childhood, it is a curiosity of existence.”

— Sebastian Barry

“the fabric of family, the limits of love, the loss of innocence and the birth of knowledge.”

— Betty Smith

“In his dominions children grow unloving between parents who have never loved; infants are nursed on deception from their very birth; they are reared…

— Charlotte Brontë

“As long as we're young, we manage to find excuses for the stoniest indifference, the most blatant caddishness, we put them down to emotional…

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“We shall give up the things of childhood -- gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.”

— Norman Spinrad

“For every lie I once believed, there is a transformative truth. And buried beneath all our childhood pain is a whole arsenal of hidden…

— Brian F. Martin

The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it…

— Alice Miller

“When we attempt to clear up the mess others have made, or when we love the unlovely, we demonstrate the kind of weirdness God…

— Ann Benton

“There is, in the act o destruction, a beauty which we try to deny, and a joy which we cannot. Children build to knock…

— Mark Lawrence

“We need mystery. Creator in her wisdom knew this. Mystery fills us with awe and wonder. They are the foundations of humility, and humility…

— Richard Wagamese

“Religious faith—for all its problems, despite its maddening tendency to replicate ungrace—lives on because we sense the numinous beauty of a gift undeserved that…

— Philip Yancey