Childhood Quote by Tabitha Suzuma

“The young people I loved have probably been wiped away by the real world, existing only as they once were in my memories.”

— Sophia Danton The Bull Years

“Disconnecting from my young self was a way of putting distance between the tragedy of those years and a future that seemed inaccessible.”

— Anna Camilleri

“There are those moments, probably few in a life, where before and after split off from each other forevermore in your mind.”

— Deb Caletti

“they would be reunited again. And when that time came, they would have all the memories of their love to keep them strong.”

— Lisa Blackwood

“They sat far apart deliberately, to experience, daily, the sweetness of seeing each other across great distance.”

— Louise Glück

“We belonged to each other, but had lived so far apart that we belonged to others now.”

— André Aciman

“And so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born.”

— Mohsin Hamid

“You could only truly reinvent yourself far from home. On trips to see her parents, she still feels a little stifled by all that…

— Jojo Moyes

“While their parents knew a different life and would never really feel at home again without it, their kids had never known anything else…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“Because the memories we leave with people matter just as much as the time spent with them”

— Caroline George

“We were still children, for all that we thought we weren’t. We were in that in-between place, the twilight between childish things and grown-up…

— Christina Henry

“Nothing is more foreign than the world of one's childhood when one has truly left it.”

— Pär Lagerkvist