Childhood Quote by Susan Sontag

“Alone with thoughts of what should have long been forgotten, I let myself be carried away into the silent screams of delirium.”

— Amanda Steele

“Childhood slips away when death settles in.”

— Sahar Delijani

“No kind of writing lodges itself so deeply in our memory, echoing there for the rest of our lives, as the books that we…

— William Zinsser

“But always when I was without a book, my soul at once became disturbed, and my thoughts wandered.”

— Saint Teresa of Avila

“Real readers poison themselves with words. They close each book as though climbing, reborn, from a tomb.”

— David Gordon

“I am again in the present and awake. I close my eyes and am desperately trying to recapture the childhood memory. Now, however, I…

— Alexandar Tomov

“As I started my personal voyage to unpack the childhood that I repressed for so long, everything unexpectedly made sense as to where some…

— Patricia Dsouza

“But it was the first time I had ever really used the place I knew and the things I felt in a piece of…

— Stephen King

“I cannot imagine how anyone can go through life without carrying the memories of his childhood on the surface of his soul.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

“Was a sadness so profound that the mind sought escape into fantasy?”

— Lorraine Heath

“The death of a parent, he wrote, 'despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise…

— Joan Didion

“I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón