#childhood

اللهم قنى شر الحرص و الحذر و الحيطة,و أحينى طفلاً شجاعاً و أمتنى طفلاً شجاعاً.اللهم إنى لا أريد أن أكون محنكاً أبداً. أريد لقلبى أن ينفجر و هو يقول ما فيه,و لا أريده أن يموت مطوياً على سره. هذه حياتى و لست أملك حياة غيرها. ↗

— مصطفى محمود

#children #humanity #life #life

Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it. ↗

— Heather O'Neill

#sad #life

Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#childhood #life

Ne, nisu jučer ubili majku, srušili kuću. Ubili su, babo, moje djetinjstvo, mladost, snove, sav moj život. ↗

— Nura Bazdulj-Hubijar

#bosnian-war #childhood #childhood-suffering #life #war

Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#fool #happiest-time-of-your-life #liar #life

That night I looked up at those same stars, but I didn't want any of those things. I didn't want Egypt, or France, or far-flung destinations. I just wanted to go back to my life from my childhood, just to visit it, and touch it, and to convince myself that yes, it had been real. ↗

— Jenny Lawson

#nostalgia #life

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#laughter #love #oblivious #love

one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#childhood-memory #happiness #loss #love #memory

He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#old-age #age

It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you. ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#nicole-krauss #the-history-of-love #love