#innocence

Adults have the benefit of experience and know the trick will work as long as the technique is correct. When we “grow up” we gain this experience and knowledge, but we lose our innocence and sense of wonder. In other words, the price we pay for growing up is a permanent sense of loss. ↗

— Alberto Alvaro Ríos

#innocence #life #experience

...I'm innocent still -inside me are stained glass windows that have never been broken- and when I see your light it stains my soul with color ... ↗

— John Geddes

#innocence #light #love #poetry #soul

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#memories #want

I prefer to be left alone with my books. ↗

— Alison Weir

#jane-grey #solitude #innocence

It takes a very long time to become young. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#innocence #knowledge #wisdom #youth #youth

Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much. ↗

— P.D. James

#pain #innocence

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. ↗

— Voltaire

#guilt #innocence #judgment #justice #mercy

Was your mom a gardener?” I asked innocently. “What?” Ren’s mouth hung open slightly. “Because a face like yours belongs planted on the ground. ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#innocence

There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#innocence #innocence

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#innocence