Quotes About Innocence

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You are a little girl, so you are still in milk days.

Let's love our girls well and protect their spirits, Introduce them to their own strength and power, and Keep them as bright and beautiful as the day they were born.

Things seem more when you're little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.

Thank you for your childhood.

He called after her as she walked away on the path. Alys? Why were we dancing? Take your mind there again, she called back. You'll remember! To herself she murmured, shaking her head with amusement as her eyes twinkled at her own memory. Only thirteen. But we was barefoot and flower-strewn and foolish with first love.

They can't help it. They know nothing

We thank you for your childhood.

she said, "thank you for your childhood.

somehow the first little Caleb had wandered away unnoticed

When I was very young, about four, I had a friend names Modest Storewrecker.

They have never known pain

But he was a happy and easygoing toddler. Now he moved unsteadily across the room, laughing. "Gay!" he chirped. "Gay!" It was the way he said his own name.

Jonas looked down through the dusk at the little head against his chest. Gabriel's curly hair was matted and filthy, and there were tearstains outlined in dirt on his pale cheeks. His eyes were closed. As Jonas watched, a snowflake drifted down and was caught briefly for a moment's sparkle in the tiny fluttering eyelashes.

Mama was laughing quietly. "I remember, too," she said. "Sometimes she wet the bed in the middle of the night!" "I did not!" Kirsti said haughtily from the bedroom doorway. "I never, ever did that!

In the new light, Gabe could see that the weapons had changed. They were broken toys, bits of rusted tin, as if a careless child had left them out in the rain.

innocence based in ignorance was unfit to protect itself.

When I was a wee little kid, remarked Roic, watching over their shoulders, there was a time I thought that any skinny old man I saw was my grandfather. It was pretty confusing.

You touch everyone, Emily. You touch a father's heart. A stranger's loyalty, and the soul I never knew I had. You touch it, and you remind us of all the innocence we've lost in the world. - Kell Krieger

she had known better. She should have sent Alex after him. She should have sent anyone after him but herself. Because she had known how it would end, and she had known where he would want it to go. Rather than accepting that, she had fooled herself into thinking that taking her, realizing her innocence, her feelings for him, that he would show a spark of possessiveness. Just a moment's hesitancy in sharing her with other men, with seeing another man touching her, taking her.

Well honey, seems innocent enough to me. He came in and fell in love with your buns.

When you were six you thought mistress meant to put your shoes on the wrong feet. Now you are older and know it can mean many things, but essentially it means to put your shoes on the wrong feet.

When you find out who you are, you will no longer be innocent. That will be sad for others to see. All that knowledge will show on your face and change it. But sad only for others, not for yourself. You will feel you have a kind of wisdom, very mistaken, but a mistake of some power to you and so you will sadly treasure it and grow it.

It reminded me of how children always thought too big; how the world tackled and chiseled them to keep them safe.