Dorothy Parker Quotes

My childhood was absolutely the worst place I've ever been," "It was terrible.

What can I say? I deal with it. I think I have come to terms with my absolutely hateful and vile childhood. No, I have, really. But I did hate it at the time. I resented it. There were elements of it that were positively Dickensian.

I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.

I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.

Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon on puberty, all that sentimental candyfloss. The next, it leads you somewhere you don't want to go.. Somewhere dark and cold, filled with the damp ambiguous shapes of things you'd hoped were forgotten.

Anyone who has lost a child will tell you that they don't recover their sense of endless possibility. Some people hide that well. But after a certain age, almost everyone is carrying something like that around, I suppose.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

My mom died when I was 8.

I feel like I died as a child.

Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

It's a painful thing to talk about my childhood. I kind of don't talk about it much.

I was a very ziddi kid. One Diwali, I was hell-bent on lighting an anaar on my palm, and it burst on my palm! It is not a great memory but I still remember that.

All of us have that feeling of some deficiency from our childhood. I think that's a universal thing.

Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told the truth about what really went on in your family, a long bony white finger would emerge from a cloud and point to you, while a chilling voice thundered, "We *told* you not to tell." But that was then. Just put down on paper everything you can remember now about your parents and siblings and relatives and neighbors, and we will deal with libel later on.

But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.

When I was a child I experienced moments of not wanting to see the ugliness, not wanting to see not being wanted. This lack of love went into my eyes and into my mind.

Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.

The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know what my mother said at one point and what my father said at one point.

in her dreams, blood tasted like fizzy strawberry soda. If you drank it too fast, you got brain freeze. When she was older, after she'd licked a cut on her finger, the taste of that became the taste in her dreams: copper and tears.

My childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen.

Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for me to accept it. To accept all the embarrassment and the shame so I don't feel like I used to.

There are years from my childhood that I cannot remember and I cannot forget.

...after all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?

Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.

My head was spinning, I had never seen blood. Four years old, this don't feel like love.