“She is all interest, eagerness, vivacity, the world is to her a charm, a wonder, a mystery, a joy; she can’t speak for delight when she finds a new flower, she must pet it and caress it and smell it and talk to it, and pour out endearing names upon it. And she is color-mad: brown rocks, yellow sand,…”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Huck was always willing to take a hand in any enterprise that offered entertainment and required no capital, for he had a troublesome super-abundance of that sort of time which is not money.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“When one writes a novel about grown people, he knows exactly where to stop - that is, with a marriage; but when he writes about juveniles, he must stop where he best can.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“I'm not the same kid I was when I was younger. I just thought you should know.”— via YouTube, youtube.com
“...because once you've got one scar on your face or your heart, its only a matter of time before someone gives you another - and another - until a day doesn't go by when you aren't being bashed senseless, nor a town that you haven't been run out of, and you get to be such a goddamn mess that finally…”— Nick Cave, goodreads.com
“Just because your inner child is dead, doesn’t mean you should try to kill the child in other people. If someone wants to enjoy Pokemon, or Finding Dory, or Star Wars - just let them. There is enough in this world to take joy from us without it being taken because of some pseudo maturity complex.”— patoispapi, patoispapi.tumblr.com
“Ever been in a spelling bee as a kid? That snowy second after the announcement of the word as you sift your brain to see if you can spell it? It was like that, the blank panic.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“They thought that children should be seen and not heard. In their world, you're not supposed to have feelings or opinions until you turn eighteen.”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“All children are miracles, but my sister and I and other children of survivors were not supposed to have ever existed. We had a special obligation (like it or not, and many do not) to make good use of our lives and to be proud Jews and grateful Americans.”— Edna Friedberg, theatlantic.com
“Once upon a time we were young, our dreams hung like apples waiting to be picked and peeled.”— Shane Koyczan, blog.ted.com
“It is not so much that they fear the risk of committing themselves as that they basically do not understand what commitment is all about. Because their parents failed to commit themselves to them as children in any meaningful way, the grew up without experience of commitment. Commitment for them rep…”— M. Scott Peck,, amazon.com
“One of the oddest things about being grown-up is looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed.”— Patricia Briggs, amazon.com
“I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child. When you're a child, something as simple as a tree doesn't make sense. You see it in the distance and it looks small, but as you go closer, it seems to grow - you haven't got a handle on the rules when you're a child. We think…”— David Lynch, amazon.com
“I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it used to be, and that growing older has served no purpose”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com