Home > Topic > A happy childhood
1 " At forty-three, I bought my first house. I’d wanted one like crazy. A house meant family, a happy childhood for my litttle girl and for the little girl self inside me. . . . I was soon overwhelmed by the upkeep and overcome by the yardwork. . . . In the bright light of closing, it was obvious: it was never a house I wanted; it was what a house symbolized to me. (254) "
― Victoria Moran , Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit
2 " Redwing had read somewhere that one of his favourite writers, Ernest Hemingway, had been asked what was the best training for a novelist. He had said “an unhappy childhood.” Redwing had enjoyed a fine time growing up, but he wondered if this whole expedition was unfolding more like a novel, and would be blamed on one person, one character, the guy in charge: him. Maybe you got a happy childhood and then an unhappy adulthood, and that’s how novels worked. "
― Gregory Benford , Shipstar (Bowl of Heaven, #2)
3 " They say a happy childhood is a lousy preparation for life. Kids who spend their playground days fat, ginger or gay know the truth. "
― Adam Baker , Outpost (Outpost, #1)
4 " I have heard it said that a happy childhood is a curse, because what follows can never measure up. All I can say is, those people must want too much; they can't accept that life is a series of struggles and that happiness can be found in overcoming them, drawing strength from the reserves laid down in the good years. "
― Deborah Lawrenson , The Lantern
5 " They say a happy childhood is a lousy preparation for life. Kids who spend their playground days fat, ginger or gay know the truth. The world has always been full of vicious predators. For plenty of people this carnage and savagery is business as usual. "
