#childhood quotes

[fatimazainab]

one day, you’re collecting stickers and stuffed animals, and the next, you’re collecting reasons to keep going.

[killabeeblog]

My childhood trauma didn't make me stronger. it made me a people pleaser. it made me forgive way too much. it made me not speak when i'm supposed to. it made me an extreme empath.

[dreamer-but-realist]

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"He knew from a childhood memory how strange and sad it is to see a familiar place after a long separation. Your heart is still bound to the place, but the unmoving objects have forgotten you and do not recognize you; it is as if they have been living an active and happy life without you, and you have been alone in your feeling -- and now here you are before them, an unknown and pitiful creature."

~ Andrey Platonov, "Soul," from Soul and Other Stories, transl. by Robert & Elizabeth Chandler, et al.

[mournfulroses]

Tezer Özlü, from her novel titled "Cold Nights of Childhood," published in 1980

[letsbeapoemtogether]

"I want to be 6 again, looking out the window and wishing for rain so I could miss school, sit on the kitchen floor, and eat whatever Mum cooks."

Abhilasha

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

I find this morning that what I most vividly and longingly recall is the sight of my grandson and his little sunburnt sister returning to their kitchen door from an excursion, with trophies of the meadow clutched in their hands—she with a couple of violets, and smiling, he serious and holding dandelions, strangling them in a responsible grip. Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists—just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.

E.B. White, Essays of E. B. White

[qalbofnight]

[thoughtsofcmn]

i hated my childhood,

yet there always seems to be some sort of yearning

to return to it.

-cmn

[lettertoholly]

Stop treating me like I'm the child I once was. You stole her from me; the damage is done.

-lettertoholly

[everywarmth]

Patti Smith, Just Kids

[notesappshakespeare]

[artsymeeshee]

Haven’t collabed with @renconner in a long while for a mini comic (minus our big one, Instinct). We were talking about one of Stan’s lowest moments involving being outside with that damn sign, so we decided to make a comic with Stan remembering it. I’ve also kinda of assumed Filbrick would lie to Ford about what’s going on with Stan (Stan probably did too to some extent).

[ed-recoverry]

People who self harm only for attention are just as valid as people who self harm for any other reason.

Seriously.

Parents often make the mistake of dismissing their child’s self harm as “attention seeking” when it’s otherwise.

But what always gets me is that, even if a child is harming themselves solely to get attention, that is a huge problem they need help for!

If a person has to go as far as to cause physical harm to themselves in order to gain what they feel as the proper amount of attention, that is someone who needs help ASAP.

No matter the form, no matter the severity, no matter the reason, self harm is a sign of severe distress that deserves immediate, intense attention.

And no one will ever convince me otherwise.

[sayangrafayel]

Childhood trio Pt. Groupchat

[6:35PM] Caleb: :(

[6:35PM] Caleb: :((

[6:37PM] MC: Caleb? What's wrong? Are you okay?

[6:37PM] Caleb: Promise me you won't be mad. :(

[6:38PM] Zayne: HE JUST HIT ME WITH HIS CAR.

[letsbeapoemtogether]

When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood."

Sam Ewing