Quote by Nicole Krauss

“Childhood feels so permanent,”

— Jonathan Tropper

“A childish feeling, I admit, but, when we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each…

— Mikhail Lermontov

“When you stop being a kid, you lose your one chance at that too-tender-to-touch gold, that breathtaken everything and forever. Once you start growing…

— Tana French

“Childhood is like that, so full of treasures. I've tried to bring as many of those treasures with me, into adulthood, as possible. Otherwise,…

— Sonya Chung

Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh…

— Eugene Ionesco

“Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.”

— Heather O'Neill

“Perhaps, when you leave your childhood behind too early and jump into adulthood, certain parts of you never fully grow up. They just become…

— Angela Hoke

“Childhood is both a chronological stage and a mental construct, an existential fact and a locus of desire, a mythological country continuously mapped by…

— Elizabeth Goodenough

Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it could have…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“adult life is full of hardship, childhood should be free of it.”

— Geraldine Brooks

Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.

— Bill Watterson

“As children, because of our dependency, we experience a sense of being powerless in a world of powerful people. If our home environments are…

— Susan Forward