“There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.”
“Wisdom leads us back to childhood. Except ye become as little children.”
“A lot of childhood effort, worry, and whispering goes into cracking the codes of adult life. Children have to be accomplished spies.”
“Your children get only one childhood.”
“People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.”
“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”