Quotes of: Inner-child Keyword

Henry closed his eyes and imagined the sweet petulant woundedness with which she had stared at him on the beach. He felt a little proud that she could love him.

Envy

They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight.

Envy

Simply building a fence between a child and temptation is not the same things as preparing him to face life.

Extravagant Grace: God's Glory Displayed in Our Weakness

Sometimes I wake up with such an immense sense of disappointment that I can hardly breathe.

The End of Mr. Y

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

The End of Mr. Y

Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk to me about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead!

Flowers in the Attic

Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men. A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.

Flowers for Algernon

Please consult your child’s Witch doctor before using this product. Diapers may cause severe allergies, internal bleeding, and irreversible sex change.

Fire Baptized

But memories got left behind while you kept walking on; every time you had to retrace your steps further to return to your memories, and sometimes it was better not to turn back at all.

Fiela's Child

While falling in love is fun, it's not everything, and it's not the antidote to an unfulfilled life, despite what Reese Witherspoon movies may tell you.

Full Frontal Feminism

The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person was oneself.

The Forgotten Garden

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

The Forgotten Garden

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.

The Fire Next Time

Conversing with children is a fine art.... An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion is a better word.

The Flying Troutmans

You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.

Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980

I've never had sex. Never wanted to. Not with a man or a woman or an animal, though my family jokes about it. And I never will. The thought of it disgusts me.

Gods Behaving Badly

The simplest strategy for bouts of noxious flatus is to not care. Or perhaps to take advantage of a gastroenterologist I know: get a dog. (To blame.)

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Constipation ran Presley's life. Even his famous motto TCB— 'Taking Care of Business'— sounds like a reference to bathroom matters.

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

I am a M.A.G.I.C. child.. Motivated And Growing In Christ! …I hope you too are a M.A.G.I.C. dreamer!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Everyone wants to look for something of their own, a house of their own, a child of their own, a partner of their own, entirely for themselves alone. No one is satisfied with a room of their own any more.

Greed

Child" said the Voice, "I am telling you your story, not hers. I tell no one any story but his own.

The Horse and His Boy