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You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just lets you get on with it. ~ Emma Donoghue
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Emma Donoghue
Yet I had become very attached to George Roc. I liked him, not for the joy of playing with him, not for some talent that made him stand out from the rest, not even for his kindness: above all, I liked him because he was always sad and because the things he told me caused me a degree of pain.....George Roc was the first being that I'd met who saw and felt himself unhappy. ~ Joseph Zobel
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Joseph Zobel
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood. ~ Gertrude Stein
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Gertrude Stein
People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland ... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given. ~ Sue Grafton
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Sue Grafton
I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy. ~ Tyler Perry
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Tyler Perry
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice - that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it. ~ Sydney J. Harris
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Sydney J. Harris
People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others. ~ John Le Carre
Unhappy Childhood quotes by John Le Carre
She had had such an unhappy childhood and she had only to picture some poor child suffering in a similar way for her heart to sink. Of course, she knew that she would never punish her child for poor academic performance. She would not comment on her child's lack of good looks either. Nor would she ever tell her son or daughter as her mother had once told her that she was only staying in a bad, destructive relationship for their sake. ~ Lynne Graham
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Lynne Graham
You've already said that," Alex says. "Why should I go?"

"You're the only person I have," I say. "And I want us all to be together. It will be good for us."

"Oh, so now I'm back in the picture again."

"Alex. Something bigger than you is occurring right now. I'm sorry about your unhappy childhood."

She glares at me in that special way of hers and Joanie's that makes me feel worthless and foul-smelling.

"So we'll tell Scottie we're going on a vacation while Mom is in the hospital?"

"It's for a day or two," I say. "Scottie's been in the hospital every day for almost a month now. She needs a break. It's not good for her. I'd like you to be in charge of answering any questions she may have. She looks up to you. She'll hang on whatever you say."

I'm hoping a leadership role, a specific chore, will make Alex act like an adult and treat Scottie well.

"Can you do that?"

She shrugs.

"If you can't handle things, let me know. I'll help. I'm here for you."

Alex laughs. I wonder if there are parents who can say things to their kids like "I love you" or "I'm here for you" without being laughed at. I have to admit it's a bit uncomfortable. Affection, in general, is unpleasant to me.

"What if Mom doesn't make it for two days?"

"She will," I say. "I'll tell her what we're doing."

Alex looks uncomfortable with this idea, that what I'll say wil ~ Kaui Hart Hemmings
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Kaui Hart Hemmings
Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?
Y.C.: An unhappy childhood. ~ Ernest Hemingway,
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Ernest Hemingway,
That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay. ~ Brian Aldiss
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Brian Aldiss
They say that to be a writer you must first have an unhappy childhood. I don't know if unhappiness is necessary, but I think maybe some children who have suffered a loss too great for words grow up into writers who are always trying to find those words, trying to find a meaning for the way they have lived ~ Cynthia Rylant
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Cynthia Rylant
An unhappy childhood is supposed to make you grow up fast, but I still feel like a kid a lot of the time. ~ Holly Black
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Holly Black
(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours. ~ Rudyard Kipling
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Rudyard Kipling
Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood. ~ Pablo Neruda
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Pablo Neruda
We all write our life stories as if we were novelists, McAdams believes, with beginnings, conflicts, turning points, and endings. And the way we characterize our past setbacks profoundly influences how satisfied we are with our current lives. Unhappy people tend to see setbacks as contaminants that ruined an otherwise good thing ("I was never the same again after my wife left me"), while generative adults see them as blessings in disguise ("The divorce was the most painful thing that ever happened to me, but I'm so much happier with my new wife"). ~ Susan Cain
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Susan Cain
Sometimes, as a great treat, I was allowed to remove Nursie's snowy ruffled cap. Without it, she somehow retreated into private life and lost her official status. Then, with elaborate care, I would tie a large blue satin ribbon round her head - with enormous difficulty and holding my breath, because tying a bow is no easy matter for a four-year-old. After which I would step back and exclaim in ecstasy: "Oh Nursie, you ARE beautiful!"
At which she would smile and say in her gentle voice:
"Am I, love? ~ Agatha Christie
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Agatha Christie
My childhood was never great. We moved from place to place a lot. There were times when we had no definite place to stay. So, a basic level of security was not always there. Therefore, when you finally make it out, and you become who I am, you're humbled by the memories of those situations. ~ LeBron James
Unhappy Childhood quotes by LeBron James
The mere exposure effect explains many facets of our lives, such as why it's so hard to find someone who can prepare our childhood favorites like Mom did, and it also holds when we see the latest fashion trends prominently featured in stores, catalogs, and finally on people we know.
In addition, when a trend emerges, it sends the message that it's becoming increasingly accepted. When we see the supplies of multiple independent retailers simultaneously shift in one way, we assume the demand has shifted as well. Of course, the change may actually be driven by the prediction of a future shift in demand, which may or may not materialize, but it still affects people's choices. ~ Sheena Iyengar
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Sheena Iyengar
The afternoon my parents died, I was out shoplifting with Irene Klauson. ~ Emily M. Danforth
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Emily M. Danforth
God has commanded Time to console the unhappy ~ Joseph Joubert
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Joseph Joubert
It seems to me that I grew younger daily with each adult habit that I acquired. I had lived a lonely childhood and a boyhood straitened by war and overshadowed by bereavement; to the hard bachelordom of English adolescence, the premature dignity and authority of the school system, I had added a sad and grim strain of my own. Now, that summer term with Sebastian, it seemed as though I was being given a brief spell of what I had never known, a happy childhood, and though its toys were silk shirts and liqueurs and cigars and its naughtiness high in the catalogue of grave sins, there was something of nursery freshness about us that fell little short of the joy of innocence. ~ Evelyn Waugh
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Evelyn Waugh
During my childhood years in a Catholic school, one teacher who was more nuts than the rest told me I'd fry in hell if I were a lesbian so I thought maybe the best idea was to be straight. ~ Olof Arnalds
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Olof Arnalds
Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked. ~ Patanjali
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Patanjali
I'm here, Papa," she whispered, saying the words she had longed to say for her entire life. "I'm here, and I'm never going to leave you again."
He made a sound of contentment and closed his eyes. Just as Evie thought he had fallen asleep, he murmured, "Where shall we walk first today, lovey? The biscuit baker, I s'pose..."
Realizing that he imagined this was one of her long-ago childhood visits, Evie replied softly, "Oh, yes." Hastily she knuckled away the excess moisture from her eyes. "I want an iced bun... and a cone of broken biscuits... and then I want to come back here and play dice with you."
A rusty chuckle came from his ravaged throat, and he coughed a little. "Let Papa take forty winks before we leaves... there's a good girl..."
"Yes, sleep," Evie murmured, turning the cloth over on his forehead. "I can wait, Papa. ~ Lisa Kleypas
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Lisa Kleypas
When I got my braces removed, I felt more like a real woman, any traces of my childhood were stripped, just like the cold metal that inhabited my mouth for 2 years. ~ Christy Carlson Romano
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Christy Carlson Romano
I wrote about ... my childhood, when dreams were small and attainable for all. When sweets were a penny and god was a rabbit. ~ Sarah Winman
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Sarah Winman
The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant efforts to eliminate the negative - insecurity, uncertainty, failure, or sadness - that is what causes us to feel so insecure, anxious, uncertain, or unhappy. ~ Oliver Burkeman
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Oliver Burkeman
I cannot imagine that there could be someone whose childhood could compare to mine. The sky and the earth belonged to me, literally, even my apprehensions were joyful: I would get up and go to bed as master of creation. I was conscious of my happiness and could forsee that I was going to lose it. A secret fear was eating away my days. I sensed in this afternoon of my childhood, that a very severe event has just occurred: it was the first awakening, the first clue: the precusory sign of self-awareness. Up until that day I had only been a being, starting at that point I was more and less than that. Every «I» begings with a crack and a revelation. ~ Emil M. Cioran
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Emil M. Cioran
A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work. ~ Sigmund Freud
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Sigmund Freud
If you count my childhood appearances in a few TV shows and being the son of two well-known actor parents in the U.K., plus three years of drama school, you could say that I've been pretty much surrounded by the business of acting and performing my entire life. ~ Linus Roache
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Linus Roache
The dominant expression of a child is gravity. ~ Bret Harte
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Bret Harte
After I was really unhappy and unhealthy, I think it dawned on me to stop doing the unhappy, unhealthy things. ~ Sharon Stone
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Sharon Stone
Because emotion systems coordinate learning, the broader the range of emotions that a child experiences the broader will be the emotional range of the self that develops. This is why childhood abuse is so devastating. If a significant proportion of the early emotional experiences one has are due to activation of the fear system rather than positive systems, then the characteristic personality that begins to build up from the parallel learning processes coordinated by the emotional state is one characterized by negativity and hopelessness rather than affection and optimism. ~ Joseph E. LeDoux
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Joseph E. LeDoux
No one is indispensable to anyone else. You imagine you're necessary to him or that he will be very unhappy if you leave him, but I'm sure that if you do, within three months he will have fitted another face into your role and you'll see that no one is suffering because of your absence. You must feel free to do whatever feels best to you. Being someone's nurse is no way to live unless you're unable to do anything else. You have to say something on your own and you ought to be thinking, first and foremost, about that. ~ Francoise Gilot
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Francoise Gilot
Any man,' he says, 'who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world. ~ Seneca.
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Seneca.
Well, one can't get over the habit of being a liitle girl all at once. ~ L.M. Montgomery
Unhappy Childhood quotes by L.M. Montgomery
Once I got over my anger and rage from childhood, once I stopped feeling like a victim, I was able to open myself to great sources of learning. ~ Georges St-Pierre
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Georges St-Pierre
I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger. ~ Ricky Schroder
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Ricky Schroder
Children are blessed with extremely low standards when it comes to what they regard as fun or funny. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Everyone knows that there are some odors that send you directly back to memories of your childhood - odors from Christmas time and so forth. ~ May-Britt Moser
Unhappy Childhood quotes by May-Britt Moser
Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes don't think about what constitutes good or evil. They don't care whether we are happy or unhappy. We're just means to an end for them. The only thing they think about is what is most efficient for them. ~ Haruki Murakami
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Haruki Murakami
"Mom, Arnie Welsh keeps calling me a geek. He says it like it's a bad thing. Is being a geek a bad thing?"
"Of course not, Soda Pop. And don't listen to labels. They don't matter."
"What are labels?"
"It's an imaginery sticker people slap on you with the word they think you are written on it. It doesn't matter who they think you are. It matters who you think you are."
"I think I might be a geek."
She laughed. "Then you be a geek. Just be whatever makes you happy, Soda Pop, and I'll be happy too. ~ Samantha Young
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Samantha Young
Nickerson began to understand, as only an adolescent on the verge of adulthood can understand, that the carefree days of childhood were gone forever: "Then it was that I, for the first time, realized that I was alone upon a wide and an unfeeling world . . . without one relative or friend to bestow one kind word upon me. ~ Nathaniel Philbrick
Unhappy Childhood quotes by Nathaniel Philbrick
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