"To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were mine."
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"I always had this put-together family, and I always identified as the outsider. And that's a position where I feel most comfortable, and yet I feel an incredible longing to belong. That is really a strong feeling from my childhood - a desire to be part of a group."
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"Elves apparently had a short childhood. Not like witches, who seemed to take forever to grow up, according to Jenks."
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"I think it's part of everybody's childhood, there are some wonderful Hammer movies and there are some dreadful ones."
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"But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity). [Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie)."
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"At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition."
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"Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind."
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"One study found that people who smile in childhood photographs are less likely to get a divorce."
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"In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting techniques that we read about in magazines."
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"I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood."
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"Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem."
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"So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age."
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"If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that."
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"We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally."
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"Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it could have been, as I wanted - and didn't want - it to be."
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"I was in a terrible mess in my childhood."
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"I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God's Word that showed me I wasn't living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood."
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"When you're hurt very badly in your childhood, the area that it has the greatest effect on is relationships. Once you feel like you can't trust people, once you feel like that they don't care about you, that they're really not going to take care of you, it gets very difficult in relationships."
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"Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover."
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"What do you suppose makes all men look back to the time of childhood with so much regret (if their childhood has been, in any moderate degree, healthy or peaceful)? That rich charm, which the least possession had for us, was in consequence of the poorness of our treasures."
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