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41 " The bottle of red brush on a white table gleamed throughout the remaining years of my childhood as the sign of what was possible there. "
― Siri Hustvedt , A Plea for Eros: Essays
42 " Why is it that places thousands of miles from my childhood village home send me back, opening the sluice-gates of the past? Well, we are all emigrants from the homeland of our childhoods. It may be, then, that the natural place to meet ourselves as children is 'abroad', and that includes the foreign country of our growing up and aging. So it is that the personal, physical feeling of departure from the time of childhood may merge in a special symbiosis with geographical departure, biography and geography resonating now on a single wavelength. "
― Georgi Gospodinov , The Story Smuggler
43 " Eventually, however, the denial turned into emptiness and my childhood ended. "
― Floyd C. Forsberg , The Toughest Prison of All: The true story of bank robbery, prison escapes, and the search for love on the outside
44 " Either I can go back to my childhood or my childhood can come forth to me. This is what I'm desperately wishes... "
45 " People say they miss the deceased. I missed my father and my mother when they were still fully alive. They travelled through my childhood in the same way they moved around the hotel: my mother industrious, hurried, hidden; my father drunk, flamboyant, alone. "
― , Undressing Emmanuelle: A Life Stripped Bare
46 " One day I had nothing but my childhood to defend myself………. "
47 " One day I had nothing but my childhood to defend myself.......... "
48 " I would often sit in the corner of the room wearing Dad's massive headphones, carefully replaying the records time after time. It was something I did frequently throughout my childhood with music, comedy and film, inspiring my own creative imagination, the headphones rendering the experience intensely personal, as though it were all happening inside my own head. "
― Simon Pegg , Nerd Do Well
49 " Parts of my 20s and 30s have gone by in a flash but my childhood is with me all the time. "
― Sara Sheridan
50 " I was not brought up to know the Earth in intimate detail. No one I can remember from my childhood ever suggested that the land I lived on and was surrounded by contained anything important to me. My sense of kinship was connected to my house, my bedroom (my one almost personal space), my family, and my friends. I had no conscious sense of connection to the wild; the closest I came was that I deeply loved the trees in our small suburban backyard. "
― Robin Rose Bennett , The Gift of Healing Herbs: Plant Medicines and Home Remedies for a Vibrantly Healthy Life
51 " This is where the pivotal events of my childhood unfolded, while I ate banana and root beer Popsicles, two by two, tucking the sticks neatly under the skirt of the chair. It's where Sunnybank Lad met Lady, Ken met his friend Flicka, Atlanta burned, Manderley burned, Lassie came home, Jim ran away, Alice got small, Wilbur got big, David Copperfield was born, Beth died, and, on an endless gloomy winter afternoon, Jody shot his yearling. "
― Jo Ann Beard , In Zanesville
52 " I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult person, spiteful and full of rage, with a temper that could flare, seemingly out of nowhere, scorching everything and everyone who got in its way. [pp. 40-41] "
― Dani Shapiro , Devotion: A Memoir
53 " It took me most of my childhood to realize that traditions have infinite power over us.-MUKTA "
― Amita Trasi , The Color of Our Sky
54 " Sifting through long forgotten stories of my childhood and writing on a daily basis, I became obsessed with following the threads of my memories, one leading to another. I start pulling on a single, seemingly trivial strand, only to discover it is attached to a longer strand; that one in turn is attached to an even bigger one. Sometimes, I find have tugged a whole, hidden tapestry of my past into view, one thread at a time. "
55 " Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide. "
― Mohsin Hamid , The Reluctant Fundamentalist
56 " I was still keenly aware as in my childhood of the inexplicable nature of my presence here on earth "
57 " How did the Prince Charming of my childhood turn out to be such a crushing disappointment? Maybe he wasn't Prince Charming in the first place. "
― Paige Toon
58 " Years ago, my childhood friend Steve lost his father. Since Steve had left Tallahassee shortly after high school graduation, we had not seen each other for over a decade. Upon learning of his father’s funeral, I made plans to attend to " be there." After the service, I approached the family’s receiving line. When Steve saw me, he was stunned that I had made the effort to be there for him. We both cried as we hugged and he said, “I can’t tell you what it means to me that you showed up.” Showing up sends a message that you are a devoted friend, a team player, a dedicated parent, an inspiring leader, a loyal mate, and more. "
59 " I've found, though, that people are more likely to share their personal experiences if you go first, so that's why I always keep an eleven-point list of what went wrong in my childhood to share with them. Also I usually crack open a bottle of tequila to share with them, because alcohol makes me less nervous, and also because I'm from the South, and in Texas we offer drinks to strangers even when we're waiting in line at the liquor store. In Texas we call that '_southern hospitality_.' The people who own the liquor store call it 'shoplifting.' Probably because they're Yankees.I'm not allowed to go back to that liquor store. "
― Jenny Lawson , Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
60 " At times I am flabbergasted that my memory is considered false and my alcoholic father's memory is considered rational and sane. Am I not believed because I am a woman? If Peter Freyd were a man who lived in my neighborhood during my childhood instead of my father, would he and his wife be so believable? If not, what is it about his status as my father that makes him more credible? "
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