Garth Nix Quotes

Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.

I'm going to miss his childlike laugh. I'll forget the goals but I'll never forget that laugh.

Get into the habit of laughing; too many of us have forgotten how to laugh. As people grow older, they sometimes forget that they ever laughed. It is a part of their childhood that they can no longer remember.

The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.

My mom told me I never had enough Tonka toys when I was growing up.

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.

Looking back, some of the happiest moments of my childhood were spent with my arm in packets of breakfast cereal, rootling around for a free gift.

I loved playing with Barbies - that's why I didn't stop!

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

I used to play with model trains when I was a kid, and then I used to study history.

I was never one for dolls.

I loved listening to laughter even as a little kid.

I played with two lines of action figures when I was a kid: G.I. Joe and Star Wars.

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

If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in memory since childhood. These memories which live by the image and in virtue of the image become, at certain times of our lives and particularly during the quiet age, the origin and matter of a complex reverie: the memory dreams, and reverie remembers.

(...) Since I was a kid." "Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'" "Right.

I got my first laugh when my mother entered me in a baby contest.

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood!

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 stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.

There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and foget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.

My nickname when I was young was Teddy, so people would call me Teddy Bear.

I said: I must remember this, being small.

I have loved this life. I smile because I have tiny dreams that play hopscotch at the corners of my mouth. And every time I breathe they float, every time I laugh, they fly kites.