{"quotes":[{"text":"Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.","author":"Julian Barnes","tags":["childhood","childhood-memories"],"id":7063,"author_id":"Julian+Barnes"},{"text":"They thought more before nine a.M. Than most people thought all month. I remember once declining cherry pie at dinner, and Rand cocked his head and said, 'Ahh! Iconoclast. Disdains the easy, symbolic patriotism.' And when I tried to laugh it off and said, well, I didn't like cherry cobbler either, Marybeth touched Rand's arm: 'Because of the divorce. All those comfort foods, the desserts a family eats together, those are just bad memories for Nick.' It was silly but incredibly sweet, these people spending so much energy trying to figure me out. The answer: I don't like cherries.","author":"Gillian Flynn","tags":["bad-memories","broken-home","cherry-pie","childhood","childhood-memories","divorce","funny","iconoclast","ironic","irony","logic","memories","over-thinking","patriotism","psychologist","psychology","simplicity","symbolism","the-mind","thoughts"],"id":47006,"author_id":"Gillian+Flynn"},{"text":"First memory: a man at the back door is saying, I have real bad news, sweat is dripping off his face, Garbert's been shot, noise from my mother, I run to her room behind her, I'm jumping on the canopied bed while she cries, she's pulling out drawers looking for a handkerchief, Now, he's all right, the man say, they think, patting her shoulder, I'm jumping higher, I'm not allowed, they think he saved old man Mayes, the bed slats dislodge and the mattress collapses. My mother lunges for me.Many traveled to Reidsville for the event, but my family did not witness Willis Barnes's electrocution, From kindergarten through high school, Donette, the murderer's daughter, was in my class. We played together at recess. Sometimes she'd spit on me.","author":"Frances Mayes","tags":["childhood-memories","childhood-trauma","father","frances-mayes","memoir","mother","shooting","southern","southerners"],"id":72416,"author_id":"Frances+Mayes"},{"text":"Yet what use against the deceit of a state are the memories of a child?","author":"Aminatta Forna","tags":["childhood","childhood-memories","memory","state-repression"],"id":81202,"author_id":"Aminatta+Forna"},{"text":"Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away.","author":"Lauren Bacall","tags":["childhood-memories","growing-up"],"id":81831,"author_id":"Lauren+Bacall"},{"text":"The child I wasis just one breath away from me.","author":"Sheniz Janmohamed","tags":["breath","child","childhood","childhood-memories","home","identity","life","loss-of-innocence","nostalgia","poetry","sheniz-janmohamed","youth"],"id":87902,"author_id":"Sheniz+Janmohamed"},{"text":"The thing I miss most from home, is having a home.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["broken-family","childhood-memories","family","father","home","homeless","love","mother","nurturing","security"],"id":109489,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"Does childhood really happen? Do we imagine it? Everyone remembers something else....","author":"Kiana Davenport","tags":["childhood","childhood-memories","family","hawaii","memories","ohana","saga","time"],"id":121796,"author_id":"Kiana+Davenport"},{"text":"People ask me where I got my x-ray powers. I inherited them from my parents in parental supervision. Erase the dots and your doubts if you think that I was 'raysed' alone.","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["autobiographical","autobiography","childhood","childhood-memories","enlightment","figurative","homographic","homophonic","humorous","paranormal","play-on-words","pun","puns","raised","rethorical","super-powers","supernatural","supervision","telepathy","third-eye","wordplay","x-ray","x-ray-vision"],"id":132782,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.","author":"Jenny Han","tags":["childhood","childhood-memories","eight","memories","nostalgia"],"id":138461,"author_id":"Jenny+Han"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":42,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}