Abuse Quote by Patricia Dsouza

“Like most, I was a solitary boy at first, keeping to my books and weeping in the hedgerows whenever I could get away on…

— Alan Bradley

“Maybe growing up was really nothing more than growing away: from your old life, from your old self, all those things that kept you…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“It is strange how, when a child, I always longed to be like grown-up people, and yet how I have often longed, since childhood’s…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Isn't that the tragedy of growing up though? One day you wake up and realize that everything you are and everything you feel is…

— Nadine Rose Larter

“Everyone is supposed to be a combination of nature and nurture, their true selves shaped by years of friends and fights and parents and…

— Melissa Albert

“Childhood is a process of slowly recomposing oneself out of the borrowed materials of the world.”

— Nicole Krauss

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

— Sebastian Barry

“I felt myself increasingly unmoored from real life. it was as if the children were ropes tying me to the World. Without them, I…

— Tamar Cohen

“I had grown accustomed to living within myself. I was resigned to the knowledge that I had lost all appreciation of the outside world,…

— Hermann Hesse

“I have crossed over, and that childhood is as far away and strange as something that happened to someone else in a land beyond…

— Kermit Roosevelt III

“I think repressing what happened is what saved me in my childhood. I was able to use my imagination to create happy events, but…

— Erin Merryn

“I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years I spent…

— Nicole Krauss