Quotes About Innocence

When you reach a point in your life where you understand who is fucking who --beg pardon, Lord-- who's taking it and who's not, that's when you're obliged to choose how much you'll go along with. If you are not devoting every breath of every day waking and sleeping to destroying those who slaughter the innocent as easy as signing a check, then how innocent are you willing to call yourself? It must be negotiated with the day, from those absolute terms

Everything about her was sweet, pale like honey. You would not have been surprised to see a bee caught in the tangles of that yellow hair.

It's not the innocence that made him so certain. It's the arrogance of his guilt.

The warmth that went through her could not be laid entirely to a hot blush. "You, sir, have a very evil imagination!" "Nay, madam," he denied. "Vivid, aye! But nothing about you is evil, and that's all I think about." -Erienne & Christopher

The fairies went from the world, dear, Because men's hearts grew cold: And only the eyes of children see What is hidden from the old...

A newborn is murderous/but can't do anything about it.

Easing back in her seat, Grace watched the children in the playground opposite, coats off, faces flushed, laughing hysterically with pleasure. They were so vividly alive, completely immersed in the game. She tried to recall a time when she'd been that way and realized she couldn't remember when that had been. She'd lost the knack of forgetting herself. Instead she seemed to look down on herself throughout the day, scrutinizing, judging; finding herself wanting more.

Her eyes were as wide as a nun's in a brothel.

Innocence, like virginity, is more fun to lose than to keep.' 'Both are quite expensive, sir.

Innocence is attractive in children but it makes brittle, disappointed adults.

Why is eight years old middle-aged?" he asked a detective one day. When the man asked what Tim meant, he said, "Laura died at sixteen. For her, eight was middle-aged.

The little girl's eyes were squeezed tightly shut and she bore the angry expression unique to babies who had just been wrenched from the sanctuary of warmth and nourishment where they had spent the previous nine blissful months.

A shepherdess makes quite a mess, but little lambs are lovely.

I want to get out of here means I want to be innocent.

I see Christina, emerging, chewing and sticky-fingered, between two panels of the tent. Partly out of bravado and partly in order to test what will happen, I bite her on the arm as hard as I can

I felt like I was ten again and had been caught using my uncle's Cuban cigars as miniature canoes in the toilet.

I feel it, that expansiveness specific to childhood, the breath filling you all the way up to the puff of your cheeks, the feeling that each breath is good.

No one has a deeper or more tempestuous relationshipship with Innocence than you.

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

in the end it was better to have the love of a confessed killer, than to have no love at all, especially when you were just twelve years old.

Children know something that most people have forgotten.

I am now 28 years old on the outside and nearly 12 years old on the inside. I always want to stay 12 years old on the inside.

Back when he was a kid, about eleven years old, he used to go looking for cars that had "No Radio in Car" signs on them. He'd take a removable radio, of a type that was very popular at the time, and throw it as hard as he could at the car window with a note wrapped around it that read, now you have one.