“It was a child's awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt.”
“It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.”
“The April night on which Sammy felt most aware of the luster of his existence - the moment when, for the first time in his life, he was fully conscious of his own happiness - was a night that he would never discuss with anyone at all.”
“We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.”
“The good you have done, the kind words you have spoken, the love you have shown to others, can never be fully measured.”
“I'm off in search of adventure,even thoughi am sixty fve and fully aware of all the limitations that age can bring....”