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“the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.” Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein” - 1818

“People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov” - 1880

“From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.” Benjamin Franklin, “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin” - 1791

“sometimes a child’s innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along—the same person that I am today.” Orson Scott Card, “Ender's Game” - 1985

“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“Tom's whole being applauded this idea. It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circumstances, the surroundings, were in keeping with it.” Mark Twain, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” - 1876

“Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal.” L. Frank Baum, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” - 1900

“What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves—our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies. Now that...” Margaret Atwood, “The Blind Assassin” - 2000

“The truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.” Neil Gaiman, “The Ocean at the End of the Lane” - 2013

“Snape’s Patronus was a doe . . . the same as my mother’s, because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from the time when they were children.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” - 2007

“These bitter sorrows of childhood! when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.” George Eliot, “The Mill on the Floss” - 1860

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.” Nicole Krauss, “The History of Love” - 2005

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Ender's Game (1)
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (1)
The Mill on the Floss (1)
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (1)
The History of Love (1)