Childhood Memoir Quotes

“Summers with Rene began with a cigarette in one side of her mouth and a squinting of her eyes as she thought . . . . Shortly, she would make her pronouncement and it would seem magical no matter how often the words were said. "It's a beach day," blessed the day. The rest was understood. No more needed to be said. I knew that she knew. She had the gift to read what would come from the skies as surely as my mother could see births and betrayals in the cards.”
― Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

“Do you remember the unbidden summer rain
Washing the dew from mulberries away?

Can you forget the scent of honey over fields,
And those amber-colored acorns beads…

And crowds of singing motley birds
Around the foggy, misty lake?

That’s where our childhood mirth
Will be remained as a fairy-tale…”
― Sahara Sanders, Gods’ Food

“In life, we all have a cross to bear and a unique story to tell. We just hope that someone will take the time to listen.”
― Greg McVicker, Through the Eyes of a Belfast Child: Life. Personal Reflections. Poems.

“It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly
worth your while.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes (Scholastic ELT Reader)

“Here is the thing about doorways: once you step through them, you can’t go back. Even if you do, you will never see the world the
same way as before. Cottonwood leaves will forever shimmy singularly in the wind. It might be hard.”
― Jeannine Ouellette, The Part That Burns

“The instructions read, ‘Dump the monkeys onto the table. Pick up one monkey by the arm. Hook another arm through a second monkey’s arm. Continue making a chain. Your turn is over when you drop a monkey.’ Most of my childhood life at the house on Arce Subdivision had been like that, constantly linking monkeys together and anticipating something going wrong.”
― Bong Serrano, Batangas: My Sky and Earth