"There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third."

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Source : John Marsden (1998). “Checkers”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

John Marsden

#Love Is Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Innocence Quotes

“Now, if we only had as many casks of butter as there are people here, then I would eat lots of butter!”
“The so-called miraculous powers of a great master are a natural accompaniment to his exact understanding of subtle laws that operate in the inner cosmos of consciousness.”
“Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.”
“It's what they say to do when you're depressed, you know. Walk in someone else's shoes for a while, and your own won't feel so tight.”

Source : Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “Alice Alone”, p.117, Simon and Schuster
“I am always torn. Between control and chaos; passion and tranquility. Between what's fated and what I want. Part of me longs to take the plunge, to dive off headfirst and let the feeling of control evaporate on the wind. And part of me wants to be in a place where I'd never have to worry about that choice--or any choice. Where peace and calm are the only things I'd feel.”
“As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.”
“Nothing you say can ensure that the other person will get it, or respond the way you want. You may never exceed his threshold of deafness.”

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