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Ted Hughes
“Everybody tries to protect this vulnerable two three four five six seven eight year old inside, and to acquire skills and aptitudes for dealing with the situations that threaten to overwhelm it... Usually, that child is a wretchedly isolated undeveloped little being. It鈥檚 been protected by the efficient armour, it鈥檚 never participated in life, it鈥檚 never been exposed to living and to managing the person鈥檚 affairs, it鈥檚 never been given responsibility for taking the brunt. And it鈥檚 never properly lived. That鈥檚 how it is in almost everybody. And that little creature is sitting there, behind the armour, peering through the slits. And in its own self, it is still unprotected, incapable, inexperienced...

And in fact, that child is the only real thing in them. It鈥檚 their humanity, their real individuality, the one that can鈥檛 understand why it was born and that knows it will have to die, in no matter how crowded a place, quite on its own. That鈥檚 the carrier of all the living qualities. It鈥檚 the centre of all the possible magic and revelation. What doesn鈥檛 come out of that creature isn鈥檛 worth having, or it鈥檚 worth having only as a tool鈥攆or that creature to use and turn to account and make meaningful...

And so, wherever life takes it by surprise, and suddenly the artificial self of adaptations proves inadequate, and fails to ward off the invasion of raw experience, that inner self is thrown into the front line鈥攗nprepared, with all its childhood terrors round its ears.

And yet that鈥檚 the moment it wants. That鈥檚 where it comes alive鈥攅ven if only to be overwhelmed and bewildered and hurt. And that鈥檚 where it calls up its own resources鈥攏ot artificial aids, picked up outside, but real inner resources, real biological ability to cope, and to turn to account, and to enjoy.

That鈥檚 the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they鈥檙e suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That鈥檚 why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember.

But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and protective shells鈥攈e becomes one of the walking dead, a monster. So when you realise you鈥檝e gone a few weeks and haven鈥檛 felt that awful struggle of your childish self鈥攕truggling to lift itself out of its inadequacy and incompetence鈥攜ou鈥檒l know you鈥檝e gone some weeks without meeting new challenge, and without growing, and that you鈥檝e gone some weeks towards losing touch with yourself.”
Ted Hughes, Letters of Ted Hughes

Gillian Flynn
“Natalie was buried in the family plot, next to a gravestone that already bore her parents' names. I know the wisdom, that no parents should see their child die, that such an event is like nature spun backward. But it's the only way to truly keep your child. Kid grow up, they forge more potent allegiances. They find a spouse or a lover. They will not be buried with you. The Keenes, however, will remain the purest form of family. Underground.”
Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

Paul Hoffman
“...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it鈥檚 damaged for ever and what鈥檚 done can never be undone.”
Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things

Valerie Sinason
“How do we find words for describing levels of betrayal and emotional, physical, sexual and spiritual torture that fragment and destroy a child or cast and case traumatic shadows over the whole of adult life?
We might, as a society, slowly find it possible to accept that one in four citizens are likely to have experience some form of emotional, psychical, sexual or spiritual abuse (McQueen, Itzin, Kennedy, Sinason, & Maxted, 2008), in itself a figure unimaginable and hidden twenty years ago. However, accepting the way a hurt and hurting parent or stranger re-enacts their disturbance with a vulnerable child or children remains far easier to digest than to consider the intellectually planned, scientific, methodical, procedures of organized child-abusing perpetrators-in other words, torture.”
Valerie Sinason

Tom Giaquinto
“Every night I tell my children all of the things that I love about them. I tell them how proud I am of their accomplishments and how much better our lives have been since they were born. I hope they will always realize how much they are loved and valued. I feel so blessed that they are in my life.”
Tom Giaquinto

Alison   Miller
“Since the 1980s, therapists have reported encountering clients or patients who had experienced extreme abuses featuring physical, sexual, emotional, spiritual, and cognitive aspects, along with a premeditated structure of torture-enforced lessons. The phenomena was first labeled "ritual abuse," and, later, as our understanding developed, "mind control.”
Alison Miller, Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control

Colleen Hoover
“You need to be proud of the fact that you survived everything you went through as a child. Don't seperate yourself from that life. Embrace it, because I'm so fucking proud of you.”
Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

Dan Pearce
“Do we not see the influence we have when we say we believe in one thing, but our children see us living something else? Do we not realize how little we encourage our children to actually decide what they believe, declare what they believe, and then live by it? Whether it鈥檚 religion, politics, sports, or societal norms. It is not our place to tell our kids what to think. It is our place to teach our kids to think correctly. If we do this, we need have no fear of what they will decide for themselves and how strongly they鈥檒l stand behind it. A man will follow his own convictions to his death, but he鈥檒l only follow another man鈥檚 convictions until he steps in manure.”
Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

Dan Pearce
“Dads. Do you honestly expect anybody to believe that you can鈥檛 find 20 minutes to step away from your computer or turn off the television to play with your child? It has to happen every single day. Do you not understand that children will hinge their entire facet of trust on whether or not their dad plays with them and how involved he is when he plays with them? Do you know the damage you do by not playing with your children every day?”
Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

Mikhail Lermontov
“A childish feeling, I admit, but, when we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each attribute acquired by experience falls away from the soul, which becomes anew such as it was once and will surely be again.”
Mikhail Lermontov

Francesca Lia Block
“It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If someone said, Isn鈥檛 it cute, look at them playing, we would have smiled back, humoring them, but it wasn鈥檛 playing. It was transformation. It was our own world. Our own rules.”
Francesca Lia Block, Wasteland

David Paul Kirkpatrick
“He tossed a word like a ball, never letting it fall. Instead it swam in the air, without care, strung together with an art that came straight from his heart.”
David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“I鈥檓 just happy to have experienced life; to have had a beautiful son and to have loved.”
Aaron B. Powell, Voluntary

Vladimir Nabokov
“And what agony, thought Krug the thinker, to love so madly a little creature, formed in some mysterious fashion (even more mysterious to us than it had been to the very first thinkers in their pale olive gloves) by the fusion of two mysteries, or rather two sets of a trillion of mysteries each; formed by a fusion which is, at the same time, a matter of choice and a matter of chance and a matter of pure enchantment; thus formed and then permitted to accumulate trillions of its own mysteries; the whole suffused with consciousness, which is the only real thing in the world and the greatest mystery of all.”
Vladimir Nabokov, Bend Sinister

Lauren Child
“She knows that it's not my fault if I don't know how many Zs there are in LOSER.”
Lauren Child, Clarice Bean Spells Trouble

“You stupid, conceited fool! You know nothing! You're like a child, blind to everything but its own empty stomach! Well, grow up, Carl, and join the real world. Until you do, for God's sake leave me be!”
Amanda Browning, Web of Deceit

Swami Dhyan Giten
“Meditation expands our inner being. The inner being is like a small, individual river flowering towards the Ocean.
In meditation, I feel how my inner being expands into an inner ocean, which is part of everything, which is one with Existence.
Through the inner being, we come in contact with the inner ocean, the undefined and boundless within ourselves, where we are one with life. We realize that God is part of life. We realize that God is not a person, but the consciousness that is part of everything. We find God in a flower, in a tree, in the eyes of a child or in a playful dog.
Through discovering our inner being, we discover that we are also part of the flower, the child or the dog. We realize that God is everywhere.”
Swami Dhyan Giten, Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being

C. Robert Cargill
“You see, there was this man, and he was a good man; he worked hard and did everything to the best of his ability. All he desired was for the most beautiful woman in the kingdom to be his wife. Now this wasn't all bad because she actually loved him too--very much so--but this vizier, he wanted her as well and not for so noble a cause as love."

"What did he want her for?"

Yashar paused for a moment. "So that people could look at him and say, 'He must be a great man to have such a beautiful wife.'"

"Oh. I thought he wanted her for sex," said Colby, disappointed.”
C. Robert Cargill, Dreams and Shadows

Swami Dhyan Giten
“Acceptance is to love and embrace everything that we find within ourselves like a mother embraces her child.”
Swami Dhyan Giten, Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being

Mark A. Rayner
“To live for the hope of something isn鈥檛 really living at all, and so, like a child putting away its toys and picking up a tool, he marched to Lyca鈥檚 bathroom, to shower off the stench of failure, soap up the death of hope, then wash away the ashes of his love for Daphne.”
Mark A. Rayner, The Fridgularity

Dan Pearce
“Dads. Do you not realize that your child needs to feel your skin on his? Do you not realize the incredible and powerful bond that skin on skin contact with your daughter will give you? Do you not understand the permanent mental connections that are made when you stroke your son鈥檚 bare back or rub your daughter鈥檚 bare tummy while you tell bedtime stories? And if any idiot says anything about that being inappropriate, you鈥檙e gonna get kicked in the face, first by me, and then by every other good dad out there. Touching your child is your duty as a father.”
Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

Somaly Mam
“She was eight years old, with the body of a child, but her spirit was weighed down by an adult suffering.”
Somaly Mam, The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine

Markus Zusak
“The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is like a yellow hole..." Max, at that moment, knew that only a child could have given him a weather report like that. On the wall, he painted a long, tightly knotted rope with a dripping yellow sun at the end of it, as if you could dive right into it. On the ropy cloud, he drew two figures-a thin girl and a withering Jew-and they were walking, arms balanced, toward that dripping sun.”
Markus Zusak

Oscar Hammerstein II
“Sentiment has never been unpopular except with a few sick persons who are made sicker by the sight of a child, a glimpse of a wedding, or the thought of a happy home.”
Oscar Hammerstein II

Dan Pearce
“I am far from a perfect dad. And I always will be. But I鈥檓 a damn good dad, and my son will always feel bigger than anything life can throw at him. Why? Because I get it. I get the power a dad has in a child鈥檚 life, and in a child鈥檚 level of self-belief. I get that everything I ever do and ever say to my son will be absorbed, for good or for bad.”
Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“Motherhood doesn't have a nationality”
Melinda Cross, One Hour of Magic

V.T. Davy
“I couldn鈥檛 imagine leaving a child. Not because it was unthinkable, but because I couldn鈥檛 imagine having a child to leave.”
V.T. Davy, Black Art

Mehmet Murat ildan
“Child! Turn your face to the light, to the science, to the reason, to the truth, to the peace! Child! Be modern, be compassionate, be individual, and be independent! Child! Don鈥檛 be the man of anyone or any system, don鈥檛 believe in any religious stories, and don鈥檛 ever be silent against any oppressor! Child, turn your face to the light and walk towards the light!”
Mehmet Murat ildan
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“But we left camp after a while and we was driving in a real spooky place cause all the roads up near camp are dark and in the woods and we had to drive for a while to get to a highway cause there was no street lights or anything and nothing but woods and my dad asked me if I had a good time and I told him I did, but that鈥檚 really a lie and I felt like telling him what it was like at that mean old camp, but I thought he鈥檇 get mad and tell me I鈥檓 making it up and I thought I鈥檇 tell him some other time like Febuary and cause I didn鈥檛 think he鈥檇 believe me anyway, but so I changed my mind and then I thought I should tell him now cause he鈥檒l wonder howcome I never told him sooner, so when he said that鈥檚 a nasty gash and when he said what did I do, stumble on the trail and hit a big rock or something? I told him no and I told him that lots of bad things happened to me at camp and that I never want to go there again cause I hate it and I almost cried. But he said I always had a bibid emigination cause he鈥檚 sure it wasn鈥檛 that bad! And I don鈥檛 know about those big words either, but what he said made me kind of mad cause grownups always think they know what happened to you better than you do yourself.”
Timothy Victor Richardson, Morning Song