Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

Guys like Henry and his buddies were an accident waiting to happen; the little kids' version of floods or tornadoes or gallstones.

Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.

Louis wondered now (and not for the first time) if childhood was not more a period of forgetting than of learning.

Clara n me was always close. Growin up it was me for her and her for me. You probably don’t know about a thing like that, you strike as a mighty cold fish, but that’s how it was.

The perception of a child who has not yet learned to protect itself by developing the tunnel vision that keeps out ninety percent of the universe.

It had been in their hands then; he was quite sure of it. But kids lose everything, kids have slippery fingers and holes in their pockets and they lose everything.

E' una bambina che è stata punita per la sua innocente superbia, una bambina che ha commesso l'errore di pensare di essere grande quando era piccola, di contare quando non valeva niente, di essere circondata dall'affetto del mondo quando in realtà il mondo non è che un enorme locomotore morto, con un motore ma senza fanale.

No one ever forgets a toy that made him or her supremely happy as a child, even if that toy is replaced by one like it that is much nicer.