“ I'd take her to the top of the widow's tower at Ainsdale Castle, late at night, and we'd watch the moon rise. The widow's tower was very high but she wasn't afraid. Sometimes I'd steal a pie from the… Elizabeth Hoyt
“ So I went back in time and told her how I liked the smell of soil after the rain. It has a special place in my heart. It reminds me of my childhood days. Days spent in happiness and tranquility. Avijeet Das
“ One of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive. Audrey Niffenegger
“ She has that voraciousness about children. She swoops in on them. Even I, in public was a beloved child. She'd parade me into town, smiling and teasing me, tickling me as she spoke with people on the… Gillian Flynn
“ The fifties are a peaceful time, a quiet sleeping time between two noisy bursts of years, a blue and white time filled with sweet yellow days, music and bright smelling memories. David Gerrold
“ He felt as if he has heard similar stories before. The wimp at school had grown to become stronger than the bully. And by some devious twist of fate, he would pop back into your life years later and t… Vann Chow
“ Where do songs go when you cease to hear them? Where does the turbulence of the air disappear after thousands of birds flap their wings homeward at eventide? Where are the cries of the Rajput women wh… Kiran Nagarkar
“ Sometimes I return back to the state of mind I had as a child when I believed nothing was impossible. Jonathan Harnisch
“ There are things in this world that the children hear, but whose sounds oscillate below an adult's sense of pitch. Edmund de Waal
“ Seeing your mother naked is not something you easily recover from. Seeing your mother naked and jumping from one side of a king-sized bed to the other with a nurse's hat on while your father, who is a… Chelsea Handler
“ When I was a child, I thought like a child.When I became adult, I seek a deeper understanding of life. Lailah Gifty Akita
“ My world was very limited in size and experience. Small things took on extra importance, at least to a child. Dan Groat
“ She saw it in her mind's eye like a movie playing, the haunting memories from her childhood she couldn't seem to shake blending together into one raw, aching image. Her mother lying in a darkened room… Eve Berlin
“ A ten-year-old Amanda wandering around the sights and sounds of a carnival. Trying to take it all in as such an event was much larger than the backroads of isolated territory from whence she grew up.… Jaime Allison Parker
“ Instead of lullabies, my mother would sing us songs of the Revolution. Now she sings them to her grandchildren. 'Are you nuts?' I ask her. She replies, 'I don't know any other songs. Svetlana Alexievich
