Childhood Quote by Siri Hustvedt

“I remember the first time I saw my favorite painting, how its fragile beauty caught my breath. And I thought if the artist had…

— Lang Leav

“On the chalkboard was another horrible but familiar sight. Someone had dipped his or her hand into a can of paint and pressed it…

— Michael Buckley

“I grew sodden with light; my skin on the inside glowed a dull red.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Remember when we didn't know that colours can mix and form other colours. When we were not introduced to strokes that brushes can form,…

— Mona Adnan

“...a vase full of flowers: dark red and pale pink in a cloud of baby's breath.”

— Kim Edwards

“Red was the color of the sun's most beautiful throne and all the other colors prayed on red rugs. ... I still follow the…

— Anonymous

“...-smells and sounds I'd grown up with and known every year of my life until then but that had suddenly turned on me and…

— André Aciman

“The brush of your lips will last my lifetime.”

— Don Scribner

“...real age, as I came to see from the genuine pieces that passed through my hands, was variable, crooked, capricious, singing here and sullen…

— Donna Tartt

“Already my childhood seemed far away—a remote age, faded and bittersweet, like dried flowers. Did I regret its loss, did I want it back?…

— Margaret Atwood

“She smelled like sweet tea and old books, like she had always been here.”

— Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

“Behind the counter, I slouched on my stool in the sun and sucked up the summer as If I could hold every drop of…

— Maggie Stiefvater