Quotes About Innocence

he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all

Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again.

This was the perfect day of his childhood. This the day to shape the days upon.

Do you remember that little boy, Papa? Yes. I remember him. Do you think he's all right that little boy? Oh yes. I think he's all right. Do you think he was lost? No. I don't think he was lost. I'm scared that he was lost. I think he's all right. But who will find him if he's lost? Who will find that little boy? Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again.

Satan hath power to assume a pleasing form. Them big blue eyes. Knew more ways to turn a man's head than the devil's grandmother. I dont know where they learn it at. Hell, she wasnt but seventeen.

The boy's candlecolored skin was all but translucent.

But who will find him if he's lost? Who will find the little boy? Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again.

The more naive your life the more frightening your dreams. Your unconscious will keep trying to wake you.

The girls emerged in their carboncopy dresses and the boy came out of the woods stiffly and looking churlish and sullen and strange, like a child pervert.

it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.

it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.

Life is so simple when you're young, though of course that's not what it feels like to the young.

It seems only yesterday I used to believe There was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I would shine. But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees. I bleed. Billy Collins, "On Turning Ten" A

The slow days drifted on, and each left behind a slightly lightened weight of apprehension. Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

But that was the trouble with this world — at heart, it was childish.

When you are a high school girl, there is nothing more miraculous than a high school boy.

Well-- My mother paused, and her tone was reflective in that way that is inevitably sad, because the past is sad. What I remember, she said, is that you were always such a dear little girl.

Ils sont tous ivres morts dice de Foxâ a bassa voce, stringendomi il braccio. Je commence à avoir peur. Allora io gli dico: Non mostrare di aver paura, per l'amor di Dio! Se si accorgono che hai paura, sono capaci di offendersi. Non sono cattivi: ma quando hanno bevuto, diventano come bambini. Non sono cattivi, lo so, dice de Foxâ son come bambini. Ma io ho paura dei bambini.

Her eyes were like the first morning of the world, so ageless

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.

remote, virgin look of modern girls, sisters

But both had the remote, virgin look of modern girls, sisters of Artemis rather than of Hebe.

She laid the doll on the sofa, and covered it with an antimacassar, to sleep. Then she forgot it. Meantime Paul must practise jumping off the sofa arm. So he jumped crash into the face of the hidden doll. Annie rushed up, uttered a loud wail, and sat down to weep a dirge. Paul remained quite still. ... He seemed to hate the doll so intensely, because he had broken it.

A Prelude, 1907 Lessford's Rabbits, 1908