#child

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Sometimes parents don't find what they're looking for it their child, so they plant seeds for what they'd like to grow there instead. I've witnessed this with the former hockey player who takes his son out to skate before he can even walk. Or in the mother who gave up her ballet dreams when she married, but now scrapes her daughter's hair into a bun and watched from the wings of the stage. We are not, as you'd expect, orchestrating their lives; we are not even trying for a second chance. We are hoping that if this one thing takes root, it might take up enough light and space to keep something else from developing in our children: the disappointment we've already lived.


Jodi Picoult


#disappointment #dream #dreams

Children live in a world of dreams and imagination, a world of aliveness… There is a voice of wonder and amazement inside all of us; but we grow to realize we can no longer hear it, and we live in silence. It isn’t that God stopped speaking; it is that our lives became louder.


Mike Yaconelli


#dreams #wonder #dreams

... I wrote about ... my childhood, when dreams were small and attainable for all. When sweets were a penny and god was a rabbit.


Sarah Winman


#growing-up #life-lessons #dreams

Come on then," Deeba said. "We haven't got time to waste. You're not the ones who are going to get forgot in a few days' time if you don't phone home.


China Miéville


#home

He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.


Cormac McCarthy


#god #son #child

There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.


Mitch Glazer


#reality #storytelling #child

I, too, do not want our children to leave us, Zeba, but it is not our decision to make. We are here only to facilitate their dreams.


Samina Ali


#dreams

...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.


Ransom Riggs


#exploration #childhood

In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.


John Irving


#childhood

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.


Dave Pelzer


#childhood