John Boyne Quotes

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

There was a lot of beauty in my childhoood.

'In Ear Park' perfectly encapsulates the beauty of youth for me.

I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child.

I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

The world is so different for a child, waking in the mornings, wide-eyed and ready to take it all in.

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

Look at life with the eyes of a child.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

When you're a kid, you should be a kid.

It's such a potent thing, to be a kid. We grow up, and we don't want to remember how everything is so beautiful and terrifying when we're young. The older you get, the more you hope to muffle things.

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

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.

Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

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

I'm just a sweet little kid.