Youth
But I’m not sure going back to babyhood would be better
“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.”
**Mark Twain
Never Leave Your Childish Imagination
Depths of Imagination by JennaleeAuclair
“What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?”
**Beatrix Potter
And I Rage for Them, Poor Darlings
It usually starts as fear, but given enough time, that fear will turn to rage. And it’s a rage that never burns out.
“The abandoned infant’s cry is rage, not fear.”
**Robert Wilson
Takes Lots of Experience (And Apologies)
“Teenagers want to be able to fight for what’s right – but finding out what’s right is now 90 percent of the battle.”
**Maggie Stiefvater
The World Grows Bigger As You Age
I am not young enough to know everything.
**Oscar Wilde
Waiting Patiently, NOT!
I’m sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster.
**Andrea Arnold
🙂 I still do this, and I’m way past childhood. December 23 has always been the worst though. It takes forever, you’re usually already out of school and stuck at home, but you know that there is still a whole extra day left to go.
While Grown-Ups Would Beg for the Opportunity . . .
Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.
**Red Skelton
Room To Grow in Imagination
“The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.”
**Louisa May Alcott
High on Milk
“When kids hit one year old, it’s like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.”
**Johnny Depp
One Ear In The Past 