Lisa Kleypas Quotes

I wasn't ever unable to function, but I did realize at some point that I had built a wall between myself and my childhood by saying, "I'm so glad that's over. Nothing can ever be as bad again," without understanding that my childhood was still very much with me.

You know, it's kind of hard because I really - I see kids on their Rollerblades and their bikes, and just running around, climbing trees, and I used to do that. And I loved doing that.

Now, Marlon and I - for some reason, even today - even today, we can't say two words to each other. We really can't talk to each other. You know, I say to him - Marlon can't talk. I mean, he'd talk to you. But he can't talk.

Once upon a time the world was sweeter than we knew. Everything was ours; how happy we were then, but then once upon a time never comes again.

Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.

I never wanted my kids to feel about me the way I felt about him.

Some of the most powerful memories are those when you are very, very young. Adult life is seen through the reflection of complex, rational thought.

'Talking Peace' is one of the few books from childhood that I still keep prominently displayed on my bookshelf.

My father was never very friendly. When I was growing up, I thought the doorbell ringing was a signal to pretend you weren't home.

There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.

The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.

To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasureable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris.

Where once my careless childhood strayed, / A stranger yet to pain.

Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was?

You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.

I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.

There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.

I pictured my mom, alone in our little apartment on the Upper East Side. I tried to remember the smell of her blue waffles in the kitchen. It seemed so far away.

In childhood we all have ... a far higher sensibility for April and April evenings - a heartache for them, which in riper years is gradually and irretrievably consoled.

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn’t any reclaiming it or revising it.

What a childhood I had. Once on my birthday my ol' man gave me a bat. The first day I played with it, it flew away.

That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.

Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well, I won't do that.

Gertrudis got on her horse and rode away. She wasn't riding alone--she carried her childhood beside her, in the cream fritters she had enclosed in a jar in her saddlebag