Awakening Quote by Patty Smith

“Discover the beauty of life through the eyes of a child.”

— Vasso Charalambous

“One of pleasures of parenting, future reader: parent can positively influence kid, make moment kid will remember for rest of life, moment that alters…

— George Saunders

I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a…

— Anonymous

I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the…

— Sophie Marceau

“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

“Youth. I don't seek it through another because I have it within; it's a state of mind, a spirit that is free, and a…

— Donna Lynn Hope

“All children, as long as they still live in the mystery, are continuously occupied in their souls with the only thing that is important,…

— Hermann Hesse

Sight by Jessie Greengrass was put up on Instagram by an acquaintance, so no one actually recommended it to me personally and yet it…

— Phoebe Fox

'Black Beauty,' by Anna Sewell, remains a star-dusted memory because my mom read it aloud to my sister and me at night for months.…

— Scott Turow

“A child is asleep. Her private life unwinds inside skin and skull; only as she sheds childhood, first one decade and then another, can…

— Annie Dillard

“we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives”

— Michael Ondaatje

“I was astonished at how wonderful these books were; and even though I was occasionally discomforted when someone, having asked me what book I…

— Jonathan Cott