608 Quotes About Innocence

In a universe in which past, present, and future came into existence all at once, complete from beginning to end, with all possible outcomes of every life woven through the tapestry, there is no chance, only choice, no luck, but only consequences.

No child ever receives a box of colored crayons and says, “What’s the point? I can’t draw.” Nor does she reject a jar of modeling dough because sculpture is too complicated. If you give him a guitar, he gets sounds out of it without fuss. If you ask her to sing, she doesn’t refuse to because she doesn’t know the words or because she hasn’t got a perfect voice: she simply takes a breath, opens her mouth and belts it out!

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Innocence could be lost more than once after all.

Innocence is the beginning of ignorance. Experience is the end of stupidity.

Sometimes I return back to the state of mind I had as a child when I believed nothing was impossible.

I knelt and locked the door. I locked the door locking the world and time outside. I stretched my body across the mattress and Saskia drew in close to me and placed her open hand on my chest, her mouth near my shoulder; her breath, my breath blew out the candle, and I held my lost Wanderess with tenderness until sweet sleep overcame us.

Never had we ever kissed as lovers; if we touched lips it was as brother and sister. In one moment of emotion, our lips fell together by accident, but we quickly removed ourselves as though we were children touching glass with dirty hands.

Somos el uno para el otro, no puedes negarlo, tú eres la única persona en el mundo que puede calmarme cuando estoy molesto, y se que yo soy el único que te tranquiliza cuando le temes a algo. Nosotros no… No necesitamos palabras, simplemente con una mirada nos comunicamos, y el mundo entero desaparece. Así que no puedes escapar de esto, al menos se que yo no puedo, porque esto es lo mas real que ha ocurrido en mi vida.