"A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to be human, in every good and awful sense. Perhaps most amazingly of all, Thomas Buergenthal remembers and renders the small mysteries and grand passions of childhood, even a childhood lived under the most horrific circumstances."

-- Elizabeth McCracken

#Children Quotes #Mean Quotes #Passion Quotes

“I love England, the people, the parks, the theatre.”
“In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.”
“Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world.”
“Desire is insatiable not because the goods of the world are too few, too uniform, or too bland. Desire burns through the goods of the world, even though these goods are not false or intrinsically unsatisfactory.... Desire shatters the economy of things; it disputes the tyranny of objects. IT longs for the great emptiness, which is beauty and love without limitation.”

Source : Wendy Farley (2005). “The Wounding and Healing of Desire: Weaving Heaven and Earth”, p.13, Westminster John Knox Press
“Wow. Who would want a fish for a pet when they could have a turtle?!”
“but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons.”
“I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.”
“Slumbering in every human being lies an infinity of possibilities, which one must not arouse in vain. For it is terrible when the whole man resonates with echoes and echoes, none becoming a real voice.”

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