104 Quotes About Childhood-memories

Some of my earliest and fondest memories of my mother are of her kneeling at the side of per bed every night and praying. As a child, I would always get very close to her as she prayed. I would put my ear as close as I could to her mouth and try my best to hear what she was saying to God, but I never could make out the words. Today, being married to an addict myself, I'm pretty sure I know exactly what she was praying.

The morning heat had already soaked through the walls, rising up from the floor like a ghost of summers past.

Being a kid was much more fun than being an adult. Life was sweeter then.

Moonless nights haunt me. They evoke remembrances of a carefree life when I dreamed without doubt to what my future could be. I yearn for a time when my mother’s tree swayed beneath the dusk like an amber sea, but the past is locked without a key. Never to return—only flee

Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away.

But when she was scared, she was a child again, and she was more afraid of being a child again than anything else in her life.

But when she was scared, she was a child again, and she was more scared of being a child again than anything else in her life.

My mother was already an abandoned soul, a misguided young woman who would subconsciously put herself into situations that starved her soul. The worst feeling in the world is to love someone who cannot love you back, to care about someone who can only care about themselves.

Birthdays are happy as a child, defeatist with age and joyful again at surviving another year.