Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

What I have got from my childhood aren't toys, but memories. And happy memories are better than any toy.

You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real.

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

I had a picture-perfect childhood.

For me, baseball just brings up a lot of nostalgic, happy feelings because I enjoyed it as a kid, and I liked being out there playing in the sun, and it was a simpler time for all of us.

I think we all miss our childhood.

I always cling to things that remind me of being a kid again.

He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days.

I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.

I might not remember how the sky looked on any given day. I do remember, though, what it was like to be a boy beneath a sky.

I think it reminds me of my childhood, my father, .. I think people have the same reaction. It reminds you of what it was like to be a kid, where everything is carefree and fun.

And true love waits In haunted attics And true love lives On lollipops and crisps

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood!

I envy my daughter's childhood.

I never played with anything like toys.

I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.

Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again.

I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.