| 单词 | childhood |
| 例句 | A dark night was falling, one of a different order from the soft, large, kind ones of childhood under the anacahuita tree, Pap£ parceling out futures and Mama fussing at his drinking. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My early childhood passed, on film and otherwise. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In a childhood of artful dodging, Louie made more than just mischief. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Her hair was a mousy brown, her teeth, owing to an impoverished childhood, not well cared for. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Nicknamed after a nursery rhyme, she had yet to shed a childhood endearment. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “In childhood he creeps on hands and feet; in manhood he walks erect; in old age he helps himself with a staff.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z His use of her childhood name crashed on her ears. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z But it was no use, he could not remember: nothing remained of his childhood except a series of bright-lit tableaux, occurring against no background and mostly unintelligible. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Because our parents are childhood friends. They set this whole thing up. Your parents mailed my parents a picture of you, and vice versa.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I was keen to visit the countryside again, to be in the open veld and rolling valleys of my childhood. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The nest was the most intricately constructed thing, like something built by the fairies in my childhood tales. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z We rounded a corner and I saw the pool complex, a shimmering blue expanse with the same island I remembered from my childhood, except now it was covered by a glass-plated geodesic dome. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z I told him that my father had mentioned him in every one of his stories of a troublesome childhood. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I explained that it was Edmund, my childhood tormentor, and described his menacing ways. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I pulled out pictures, grade cards, newspaper clippings, childhood drawings, and school papers. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z It was the old nursery rhyme that she remembered from her childhood days. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Since the dawn of the OASIS, thousands of elderly users had come here and painstakingly coded virtual replicas of local arcades they remembered from their childhood, thus making them a permanent part of the museum. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Because most Europeans contracted the disease in childhood, the great majority of European adults, the conquistadors among them, were immune. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He was no longer a quiet boy with a mystery, a link to her childhood. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z There they went, defeated, their bundles, their lives in tow, having left behind their homes, their childhood. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Mozart was devastated when his childhood friend was killed in a boating accident just eight years later, the same year as the death of Mozart’s mother. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Thomas, the soldier who would happily carry out any order from Commander Jameson, even if it’s to kill a childhood friend. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z But during my entire childhood, I had seen the amusement park only from the backseat window of our family car as we passed by its beckoning sights, sounds, and smells. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He knew that look; had seen it often enough in his childhood when he had accompanied his father downtown. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He pushed open the closet door half expecting to find his childhood things. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z But when you find out about all the stuff they’ve been through in their childhood and their health problems and what crimes they committed, it becomes totally different. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z I was dreaming about my childhood, about a pet frog I once kept named Big Wind. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It is an attic room with slanted ceilings, just like their childhood bedroom in Zundert. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z When I asked Farmer if he felt deprived of anything in his childhood, he told me no, but admitted, “It was pretty strange.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Despite a traumatic childhood and a mother who wanted him to become a farmer, Newton enrolled in Cambridge in the 1660s—and flourished. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z My father assembled his long bamboo fishing pole, a pole he had made with his own two hands, remembering its design from his childhood in China. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m sure somewhere in your childhood, you too had an experience like ours that day; similar if not in the actual details, then inside, in the feelings. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z For most of my childhood, I thought all dads worked six days a week, but I began to notice that most of my friends' fathers took Saturdays and Sundays off. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z They spent that summer oscillating between childhood, which still held them in its clasp, and their awakening as man and woman. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He himself had, although he had always had the consoling spirit of his father, idealized, frozen in joyful childhood memories. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Such childhood energy I spent on feeling betrayed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was in my childhood community that I was first exposed to the cultural substance that is so much a part of my writing today. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Nico didn’t speak the language, but he remembered his childhood Italian well enough to glean the general meaning: We, the bones that are here, await yours. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He aimed north toward Charles and the weakening memories of his childhood. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Apart from this, there were no indications that our childhood was threatened, much less that we would be robbed of it. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z For these two people who don’t know me from a bar of soap to invest themselves in my semi-irrational desire to find out what happened to my childhood hero? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z This was the perfect day of his childhood. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z On a hot September morning, I wake up in my childhood bed, slip on the huarache shoes my brother, Carlton, brought me back from Mexico. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Bobby had known Jackie since childhood and they were an odd pair. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z After the gasoline rationing and the public transport strike, she had unearthed this childhood toy from the basement as her only means of getting around. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Come morning, they're right where we left them gently moving in the cool air, eager to anchor us to childhood. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z The ice brought back memories of childhood, of hunting with his father. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Our childhood in Africa had been different from that of most American kids, so it took Mia and me a while to get used to playing with them. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not being clear. It’s not my past, not my childhood that I must transmit to you.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z MY childhood bedroom is the top floor of my parents’ house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z It was a happy childhood, growing up in the center of an endless fair. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Since his childhood, Poppy had been wishing for a hat that would make him invisible. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I remember the worst storm of my childhood. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z All of my childhood memories rush in: I'm standing in the wings, watching Papa take his viola from the case, rosin the bow and begin to tune among the chatter, the dinner plans, the gossip. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He had been trained since earliest childhood, since his earliest learning of language, never to lie. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z At that time Frodo was still in his tweens, as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The son of a career Air Force officer, Beck had spent his childhood shuttling from one military base to another before landing in Wichita Falls to attend college. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z When the Christian guys talk, I recognize their stories from my childhood, though I try to close my ears. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a pitiful kind of childhood, to know that no one loves you or is taking care of you, to always be on the outside looking in. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Lili and Guy passed the group, clinging to their son so that in his childhood naïveté he wouldn’t accidentally glance at the wrong person and be called an insolent child. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The dazzle of this fictive childhood—full of swimming pools and orange groves and dissolute, charming show-biz parents—has all but eclipsed the drab original. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He lay on the brass bed and went back in time over his sullen and miserable childhood and his fretful and vicious growing up. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I was barely out of the fog of childhood, where questions simply died in my head. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He’s not the scary, big man I remember from my childhood. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z At first his expulsion left him feeling like a man without a home, much the way it had been in his childhood. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z His concern for the rural poor came from his childhood in Sabalele, for his roots were deep and true, and he never lost them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Her mother had filled in some of the blanks about her father’s childhood, including how he’d been mistreated because of his skin tone and his family’s poverty. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I was going through a second childhood; a new sense of the limit of the possible was being born in me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z During all the terrible long years of his childhood, only Jaime had ever shown him the smallest measure of affection or respect, and for that Tyrion was willing to forgive him most anything. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z If I’d tried in childhood to imagine my present life in the jungle, I’d have been struck numb with the adventure of it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t have those Kodachrome images of my own childhood escapades. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z There the old Eskimo hunters she had known in her childhood thought the riches of life were intelligence, fearlessness, and love. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But her childhood friend and university acquaintance, Robbie Turner, was on his knees, weeding along a rugosa hedge, and she did not feel like getting into conversation with him. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Some students at Truman who were her classmates in the early grades of elementary school, when she was still in treatment, know of her childhood cancer. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z It is a Sunday night during my childhood and my father is taking me to the movies at the Detroit Yacht Club. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Because of those undoubted effects of childhood environment and learned knowledge on IQ test results, the psychologists’ efforts to date have not succeeded in convincingly establishing the postulated genetic deficiency in IQs of nonwhite peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Her mother, Jeer, had been born in Africa and loved to tell her daughter and her friends stories of her childhood in a small village by a river and all the animals who lived nearby. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z There were happy moments in my childhood, too. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Mine was a childhood of intense family closeness. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I think about the shoes of my childhood, the brown Oxfords scuffed at the toes, half-soled, new-heeled, the falling-apart grubby white running shoes, the brown sandals with two buckles that you wore with socks. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The world had no time for the childhoods of black boys and girls. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I tramped across the veld to visit friends and relatives, but the magic world of my childhood had fled. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For the most part, I loved my childhood in the city of Uvira. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She always confused her for one of her sisters and whispered childhood secrets in her ear every time my mom bent down to help her up. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Definitely one of the highlights of my childhood. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z From childhood on he was a hard worker, if anyone would tell him what to work at, and once told he was indefatigable. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Good schooling requires that any student alter early childhood habits. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Most were last remodeled in the seventies and have the colors of suburban kitchens from my childhood: avocado, cinnamon, sunflower yellow. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z As ’twas, he could neither affirm nor deny her account of her childhood. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “It’s hard to explain now. But I thought you’d have a better chance at a ‘normal’ childhood in the city.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Instead he says, "My childhood wasn't easy because I wasn't rich, but it helped that I wasn't an outcaste. I'm sorry people treat kids like you so badly." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z But she provides her with grade cards, childhood drawings, school papers. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “It was a good childhood,” she answered, taking a swig from the flask and offering it to Kaede. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Old people shook their heads, recalling blizzards of their childhood, but it was impossible for Kit to visualize anything more bleak than this first winter of her experience. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z It featured the lush tulips, roses, and lilies that had filled her childhood home and were still so popular in European society. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z We sat together on the stoop and briefly talked about our childhood pranks. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z His swaggering personality is swallowed up somewhere in the amnesia of my childhood. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z And then it comes to me suddenly, from childhood, my first stammering definition of communism to Anatole: They do not fear the Lord, and they think everybody should have the same kind of house. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Certain events are parallel, but compared with Hugh's, my childhood was unspeakably dull. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z May Mother never find out that I was piloting her precious Saturn on instructions from Rain, the face of so many of her childhood nightmares. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z My mother is a teacher and linguist; my father, a physician specializing in the genetics of childhood diseases. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thoughts about her father and her childhood came to Nancy that day. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Here, in my childhood home, I want to laugh at my daring. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It was rumored that she had had no childhood diseases, was never known to have chicken pox, croup or even a runny nose. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I don’t have much left of my childhood beliefs I can love or trust, but I still know what justice is. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It is an extraordinary fact about Joseph Sauveur that, as the meticulous, indefatigable founder of acoustics, he should have been partially - later severely - deaf, with a lifelong, relentlessly lampooned speech impediment resulting from childhood mutism. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z That no matter what, I’d never stop loving my childhood home. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z That they were old friends who had shared a childhood was now a barrier—they were embarrassed before their former selves. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z And as they sprouted and grew with note taking and the mining of my childhood memories came the belief, the solid belief, that it is true not just for me but for all of us. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Now I know why she didn’t like talking about her childhood,” Dad says quietly. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z It triggered an explosion of images from my own childhood at Garland. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z My childhood wouldn’t have been full of adventure if it hadn’t been for my brother. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z When we are not walking, I teach the little ones things of my childhood so far in the past. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z This knight’s trouble from his childhood—which he never completely grew out of—was that for him God was a real person. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z That had been his path, laid out before him as straight as an arrow since childhood. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z But the written word is a recent invention that has left no trace in our genome and must be laboriously acquired throughout childhood and beyond. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z After six years I was leaving Kraków, the city of my childhood dreams, the city that had become a nightmare, and was heading into the unknown. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z It was a problem that had baffled me in my childhood. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The shot that Travis Burdow fired over Rob Nelson’s team that night was a shot fired at a society that had kicked a boy from childhood on because he bore his grandfather’s name. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z I use the basement bedroom, which had been Myron’s room, and do all I can to avoid the upstairs room where my father spent his childhood. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z I now held the pot for him when he urinated—he who, in my childhood, had been called upon to capture and weigh my water and faeces. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z And here was the ghost of her childhood, diffused throughout the room, to remind her of the limited arc of existence. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It was a ritual he could perform in his sleep, one for which his father had trained him from childhood. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z His many work trips during Martin’s childhood were in fact abolitionist missions. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z All my childhood I had been to church. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z This wonder was one of many in my childhood. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you’re leaving behind? The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t think about her childhood if she could help it. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z But that wasn’t at all the way Joe remembered his early childhood. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Many of the children’s games in the U.S. originated from Europe, and immigrants carried their ancestral heritage through songs and games, which in turn influenced childhood in the U.S. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I read through the afternoon and into the evening, developing for the first time a vocabulary for the uneasiness I’d felt since childhood. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z There was a tapestry with her surrounded by flowers, and there was a museum with statues of all of her childhood pets. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They had been taught since childhood that retreating, surrendering, or being captured in war was a great shame to your nation and family. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z As an adult, Champollion succeeded; fulfilling his childhood ambition, he provided a brilliant decipherment of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, New Guineans tend to perform poorly at tasks that Westerners have been trained to perform since childhood and that New Guineans have not. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I remember my first newspaper interview, when I said that one day I would write a book about my childhood. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of pain, a delicious sensation of repose came over him, repose as he remembered it from days long forgotten in Caer Dallben, the warm bed of his childhood, drowsy summer afternoons. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Every adult is shaped by the experience of childhood and adolescence. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z It is a habit of hers from their childhood to buy rainbow clothes for herself so none of the girls can accuse her of playing favorites. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z She had never lost that childhood pleasure in seeing pages covered in her own handwriting. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I spent two years of childhood on this plantation in my old master’s family. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z Jethro would remember a sunlit field and a sense of serenity and happiness such as he had not known since early childhood. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z In the division, Alexander’s trusted general and childhood friend, Ptolemy, claimed Egypt for himself. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z For me, it feels like driving from truth into a lie, from adulthood into childhood. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I had spent my childhood wearing flip-flops—my feet felt free. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Henry Allen and Mike Horan went to honor their childhood friends who had died in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z With images of that childhood car crash blinding me, I drove my feet into and through the back of the driver’s seat. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Not since childhood had I been so excited as when we drove in Wilfred’s car. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d been born and raised in Honolulu but had spent four years of his childhood flying kites and catching crickets in Indonesia. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She grabbed his index finger with the affectionate innocence with which she had done so in childhood, however, and she held it while he kept on answering questions. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Aurelia sat under the ministrations, familiar from her early childhood, and felt the fight drain out of her body as the water washed over it. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Even before entering the rows of wooden stalls, her heart would pound like the chiwoda drums of her childhood dances. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z In Werner’s duffel, he has his childhood notebook, his blanket, and dry socks. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z This she had learned in childhood, and it was one of the old Eskimo ways that she liked, perhaps the only one. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I was very fortunate, for they were, without exception, healthy; and in their infancy and childhood my daughter looked after them almost as much as I did. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps what I had already learned to feel in my childhood saved me from that futile path. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I was dumbstruck when we first came here by a sense of childhood returned. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, all through my childhood I got letters once a week from my dad when he was doing time. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “He had to have more facts, Mother. They have to know about your childhood—all that stuff. I told you, we could hardly talk, it was so noisy in there.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The use of videotape in conjunction with systematic observation of children’s overt, physical responses to music: A research model for early childhood music education. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z For all the knowledge and pleasure they gave me, the books I read in childhood did not allow me to see myself past Coalwood. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She looks at his childhood photo albums with his mother. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z To hold an attitude of antagonism or distrust toward Jews was bred in us from childhood; it was not merely racial prejudice, it was a part of our cultural heritage. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z What a difference, he thinks, from the childhood he has known. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Billy, after all, had contemplated torture and hideous wounds at the beginning and the end of nearly every day of his childhood. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He tried to remember the rules of childhood games. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z She told Ophie stories of her childhood and asked her questions and told jokes that she laughed at before Ophie could even process the punch line. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “To tell you the truth,” Lourdes says, “on the one hand it was worth it—at first. But on the other hand—no. I lost their childhood. Sometimes, you feel bad.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z They did not stop to ask themselves why he might be making himself essential, given how difficult it must have been to live in the ghost of his childhood home. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I can’t blame all this for my drinking—I can’t blame my parents or my childhood, an abusive uncle or some terrible tragedy. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The air was redolent with their honey perfume and with another scent, one that transported Sarai back to childhood. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Some childhood malady had made all his hair fall out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z At fourteen weeks her face begins to grow plump, so that for the first time I can recognize the yia yia of my childhood. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z If anyone knew the secrets of his childhood, it would be her. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z There were so many in the village, and the separation of male and female was so great, after childhood had ended. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a winter in my childhood, on a snow-packed hill in our suburban neighborhood. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z All four of these traits apply to what Americans think of as the familiar acute epidemic diseases of childhood, including measles, rubella, mumps, pertussis, and smallpox. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Unmedicated sleep was impossible, a fairy tale, some remote childhood dream. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Early childhood preservice teachers’ beliefs about music, developmentally appropriate practice, and the relationship between music and developmentally appropriate practice. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “How do you feel about participating in this competition?” he asks next, and I breathe out with relief that he’s let the issue of my childhood drop. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We are returning to Ma’s childhood home without her. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Such is the nature of childhood trauma, I guess. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z I wanted them to have a normal childhood—I didn’t want them to have to fight or march or try to justify who they were. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, Alex,” Henry says archly, “believe it or not, the children of the crown don’t only spend their childhood going to tea parties.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Recently I asked the postman for special- issue stamps; I’ve waited since childhood for postmen to give me some of their own accord. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Within that gate in the wall through which he would pass stood the great house where the woman had been a slave girl since her childhood, the House of Hwang. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “So I searched the other stuff. That line about a childhood lost for children.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z The attorney offered letters written by Guiteau that demonstrated his erratic and often irrational behavior, starting from childhood. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z There were years in my childhood that it seemed like every other house had a huge Winnebago or some other kind of RV docked in its driveway. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Hermione had lisped and pranced and pirouetted through their childhoods, showing off at every available moment with no thought—so her scowling, silent older sister believed—for how ludicrous and desperate she appeared. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Elsbeth must have had a new one installed when her parents moved in with her grandmother, and she and Rolf took over her childhood home. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z This paragraph from Accidental Millionaire, one of the many Jobs biographies, gives us a sense of how extraordinary his childhood experiences were. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Her Appalachian childhood had acquainted her with government assistance, and she was a whiz with the Medicaid forms. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z When Calliope surfaces, she does so like a childhood speech impediment. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Most of the time, they waved off our exploits as childhood fun, but one time we got into a heap of trouble. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Ali and Baba grew up together as childhood playmates—at least until polio crippled Ali’s leg—just like Hassan and I grew up a generation later. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The scent brought me back to my childhood, visiting trade fairs and markets with my father as he pored over bolts of linen, wool, and leather. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I recounted stories from our childhood and described our house, room by room. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z This thought put him in mind of childhood fevers, their wild and frightening logic, the search for the cool corner of the pillow, and his mother’s hand upon his brow. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Soon after the conqueror’s death, Ptolemy, a childhood companion, advisor, and officer in long service to Alexander, solicited the fiefdom of Egypt. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Instead she tried to tell him of her own childhood, and it was as though they each spoke a totally different language. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “For sure. But this is where he spent most of his childhood, in what is now central and north central Wyoming. It wasn’t Wyoming then, of course.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z I strained to remember; but it seemed to me that nothing in my childhood had prepared me for this. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The friends of my childhood—Flora, the rag doll, and Rosamunde, the wooden doll in the gown with seven flounces—nestled in their basket. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Emma and Charles kept the papers, not for Charles’s drafts, but for George’s childhood creations. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Nali had said that these seeds were from her own childhood, when the entire Church Rock valley was carpeted in grass that grew as high as her knees. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z In the course of their travels, the family visited Iron Mountain, Michigan, a small mining town in the forests of the Upper Peninsula that was Billie’s childhood home. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Tia is kind of big and imposing and her thick black eyebrows have scared me since childhood. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Poring over her childhood memories, she remembered a dark-skinned boy, the library, the fireplace ablaze with enormous pine logs whose perfume filled the room, evening or night, and herself sitting on his knees. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Not a shred of our childhood, not a splinter of our tree house, not a bit of our New Year’s Eve kiss. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Throughout my childhood, he sang me a song about my famous Pashtun namesake. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Malcolm X’s mood ranged from somber to grim as he recalled his childhood. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Not having lived in the city since childhood, he had little attachment to it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He remembered his father’s stories about his poor childhood and how at Nicolas’s age he was already out working to support his mother and sister. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z If I have done well by the measures of childhood, it must be added that those measures themselves are hampered by how little a boy of my captive class had seen. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The dark of a childhood closet, the odor of gasoline she never liked, the feel of something dangerous pawing at her softly to see what she would do. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “That old sourpuss. You’d think the man had a very unhappy childhood with the way he behaves sometimes.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z I celebrate now a childhood lived through the forms of the liturgical Church. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Michael O’Laughlen, a twenty-eight-year-old childhood friend of Booth’s, another former Confederate soldier and participant in the kidnapping plot, was also arrested on the seventeenth. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She had vivid childhood memories of Linda swaddling her Raggedy Ann in an old kerchief and gently putting it to bed. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The feel of it took me back across the years to my childhood. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z In the town house, Frederick pulls on pajamas made of jelly-green silk and folds his glasses on the nightstand and climbs barefoot into his brass childhood bed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I have known these great ones since my earliest childhood, have lived among them, camped and slept against their warm monster bodies, and no amount of association has bred contempt in me. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought of a line I’d read somewhere, or maybe I’d heard someone say it: There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z This again was never put into plain words, but in an indirect way it was rubbed into every Party member ffom childhood onwards. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Feeling Mr. Sutton’s steadfast devotion, 1 found myself massaging the ache from my own heart as I reflected on America’s treatment of my parents during my childhood. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “First we’ll need to retrace Luke’s steps. We need to know more about his past, his childhood.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Your childhood friend didn’t stomp one to death on the road to Baedn-Bryt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z For a whole afternoon they had all been happy together, as in his earlier childhood. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I'd known the stuff from childhood, but had forgotten it; had learned it back of school . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Charles had a rather startling talent for forgery which, according to Camilla, dated from early childhood—expert report-card signatures by the fourth grade, entire excuse notes by the sixth. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Mom doesn’t share many of her childhood memories. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Newt pushed open the door, the slight creak once again reminding Thomas of some vague childhood memory of haunted-house movies. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He was as cynical as I was regarding uplift and hope, and we were proud of having escaped what we called the “childhood disease of metaphysical fear.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He walks back and forth in circular motions, like one of the wind-up soldiers in our childhood playroom. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z There is a part of childhood that is childish, and a part that is sacred. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Musical movement responses in early childhood music education practice in the Netherlands. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z How many times in life will I get an opportunity to explore the former home of the man whose disappearance played a major part in two-hand-shoving me out of childhood? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z As it was, he did go to war, and when he returned, his childhood sweetheart had married someone else. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes, hearing the stories, remembering his own childhood, Matty was astounded. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Aiyi and my father speak the Mandarin dialect from their childhood, but the rest of the family speaks only the Cantonese of their village. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z How everything from my childhood, everything about you and me, should’ve been presented to the court. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z My childhood dream was as strong as ever: Somehow I must find a way to watch free, wild animals living their own, undisturbed lives. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z But I no longer sleep in my childhood room with the vanilla-colored light fixture and the window curtains. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Looking around, I wondered why Halliday, who always claimed to have had a miserable childhood, had later become so nostalgic for it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z To the red tile roofs and the rough adobe walls of both his childhood and mine. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Never in my innocent childhood did I prepare for being in the Congo one dark night with ants tearing at my scalp. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z While on maneuvers in South Carolina, Billy played hymns he knew from childhood, played them on a little black organ which was waterproof. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no solace; and why should a pilgrimage to the place of my friend’s childhood make any difference, fill any absence, soothe any remorse? The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z As I walk with Uhmma now, her hand grasped firmly in mine, I can feel the strength that was there in our childhood ebbing away. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Raw memories tumbled forth about my war-ridden childhood and the brutal refugee camp. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z They had had the usual bouts with childhood illness, including the recent scarlet fever, but nothing out of the ordinary. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They had spent the previous four weeks taking it in turns to don the Invisibility Cloak and spy on the official entrance to the Ministry, which Ron, thanks to Mr. Weasley, had known since childhood. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Send in the most innocuous person from Twelve they can come up with. Find someone Peeta might share childhood memories with, but nothing too close to you. They’re screening people now.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z When registering disapprobation, he always reverted back to her childhood nickname. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z How often had it lowered on me menace and hate! and how the recollection of childhood’s terrors and sorrows revived as I traced its harsh line now! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z For two days, I write all the way through my childhood, my college years, where we sent letters to each other every week. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Slant’s childhood and youth were spent upon a tobacco plantation presided over by a benevolent widow by the name of Croak and her son, who was of Slant’s age. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Receiving GUESS? clothes for our trip reminded me of my childhood and how I needed designer clothes to make me feel accepted by others in school. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Carla, of course, knew the story well, and had analyzed it for unresolved childhood issues with her analyst husband. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “When you were little, all you had to say was ‘I’m not a bad girl,’ and you could make yourself cry,” my mother says, talking-story about my childhood. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Just by looking at the District 2 rebels, you can tell they were decently fed and cared for in childhood. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He lived with his folks, staying in his childhood room. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Oh God, he’s dead,” she sobbed, leaning over the body of the old man who had filled her childhood with stories and protected her clandestine love affair. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d moved beyond a childhood relationship with Allah, and my faith no longer required my parents’ supervision or interpretation. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “Most shuls in the Pale are made of wood, too, because of restrictions on using stone. And if this happened in his childhood, it could have been during the pogroms.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Afterwards we played our old childhood game, opening the Bible and teasing a fortune out of whatever verse our hands landed on. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I was pleased by the familiarity of the arrangement: me, pressed into the corner, away from the other children, a precise reproduction of every Sunday school lesson from my childhood. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z My childhood and adolescent life had been made up of times with him, as I later wanted my adult life to be made up of times with Blanca. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Everything suggests that the man is going to kill his wife but at the last moment, something she screams out in a nightmare makes him recall something that happened to him during his childhood. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z People I meet now assume that my childhood years in Africa were dark and deprived. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z In her childhood her father had never misinterpreted her, nor bobbled once, except when she was eleven and came home to dinner from school one day and found that her blood had begun to flow. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z She handed me the doll from my childhood, the one our mother made for each of us. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Just as she let the past go, she was determined not to repeat it: my childhood would bear no resemblance to hers. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z When Terryl learned this, she thought she’d solved one of the mysteries of her childhood: Why she was told not to answer the phone. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Her aunt had come second in the series of disasters that had ended Elizabeth’s childhood. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Ear and Eye happily dug into a plate of cookies provided by Mrs. Matsika as she asked them about their childhood in Hwange. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes when the journalists see my brothers playing so freely, they ask if I am being robbed of a childhood by my campaign for children’s rights. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I did not share my childhood and teenage experiences with them until they were old enough to understand. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Throughout my childhood, when I raised my blanket in the morning, I saw a black, sparkling powder float off it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The show notes other Levitt innovations, inspired by the builder’s own vision of what constituted a childhood of privilege. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Over the previous three decades, rates of childhood obesity had tripled. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In India, she thinks to herself, women go home to their parents to give birth, away from husbands and in-laws and household cares, retreating briefly to childhood when the baby arrives. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Leah continued her news report about the all-important boondocks village of our childhood fame, which in my opinion is better off to forget. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I hadn't heard that word since childhood and immediately recalled a mismatched pair of Japanese schoolboys standing alone in a deserted school yard. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z They stayed, stubborn relics of a misplaced childhood, reminding anyone who witnessed his pointless, endless, feckless belligerence, that this man was once a boy. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Aside from the occasional marauding visit by a lion or hyena, my childhood years were peaceful and fun. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Pen in hand, she stared across the room toward her hard-faced dolls, the estranged companions of a childhood she considered closed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The first part of the answer had been sitting under his nose since his childhood in the farmlands of Shrewsbury and Hereford; Darwin had merely traveled eight thousand miles around the globe to rediscover it. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I understand, now, the tragedy of my childhood. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z They are childhood friends from New York City, who started dating when they both went to college in California. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But there are no photographs to document Ashoke’s childhood; not until his passport, not until his life in America, does visual documentation exist. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Dev told her stories about his childhood, when he would come home from school and drink mango juice served to him on a tray, and then play cricket by a lake, dressed all in white. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He was tom between the demands of his body, which was becoming that of a man, and the sweetness of a feeling that was still tinged with the innocent games of childhood. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel a longing in my chest when we pass Apá’s abandoned childhood home. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z To overwhelm a child of four with choices, to lay on her the burden of making a decision, was to deprive her of the bliss of childhood. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z That was my Negro experience until I was well grown, perhaps too far grown to reform the inflexible habits of childhood. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She removes her gold bracelets, her sheer stockings, her pink rayon dress with the faux-pearl buttons, and lies on her childhood bed. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It was midnight, the cusp of another scary and vivid childhood memory. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Around the age of eighteen, Alba left childhood behind for good. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It turned out that she had ordered a book for me to read, about childhood leukemia and its treatment. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They were too afraid to break the news over the phone, and so they waited for his closest childhood friend to be able to tell him in person. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z It had ceased to be my childhood playground and had become its own reality, one whose physical laws were mysterious, hostile. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z When one cousin caught the measles or mumps, we were all quarantined together so as to get that childhood illness over and done with. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He seems driven to recapture the flavors of his childhood back in Sicily. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He had already lost four sons to childhood illnesses, and he had expected Eleazar—the last surviving male heir—to be the one who would inherit his wealth and follow in his footsteps. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z He spoke of his childhood in Hoi- gufn, where his father, a descendant of slaves, had worked in the nickel mines. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z While teaching at Mr. William Port Stokes’s school, Vincent identifies with the young boys, which makes him miss his childhood, his home. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She responds with tales from her childhood spent in back rooms of theaters. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Polio, which had kept my parents quarantined indoors during the summers of their childhood, had been conquered by the Salk vaccine. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z His father and mother and all the saints had taught him from his earliest childhood what was the will of God. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z She would lean against my trunk and close her eyes and hum a tune from her childhood. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “More than anything, she hates criminals. She was raised in a convent, you see. She told awfully interesting stories about her childhood.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Poppy always included camels in his childhood stories and folk tales, but they’d mostly vanished from this land since then. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z So I skip all childhood questions and reply only about the day. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Most days Frau Elena works close by, wearing a torn ski jacket she has found, mumbling to herself in French or singing songs from childhood. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d always believed his childhood was sterile, but the knowledge Macon and Ruth had given him wrapped his memory of it in septic sheets, heavy with the odor of illness, misery, and unforgiving hearts. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z It centered on one goal—ending the childhood obesity epidemic within a generation. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Looking at the rubbery white octopus chunks bobbing in the tarry mass of liver, I rejected an entire meal for the first time since childhood. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z This was not at all the same as her own threadings, the small pieces she had done throughout her childhood. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His childhood was full of them; his very body was an empty hall echoing with sonorous defeated names; he was not a being, an entity, he was a commonwealth. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z Although the recent photograph is a clear one, I still see it through the gauze of childhood. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Since childhood, I’d believed it was important to speak out against bullies while also not stooping to their level. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Most of all, when I think of my childhood, I think of Rusty. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z I had come to the army as an escape from my life—as many men did, I suppose—and though I’d had a complex and rougher childhood than most, I was still virtually unsophisticated. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He asked if the article said anything about her childhood in Clover. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He stopped, facing the strip; and remembering that first enthusiastic exploration as though it were part of a brighter childhood, he smiled jeeringly. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z As a child, the boy had always been frightened to death that he would be captured by Gypsies, and this childhood fear returned when the old woman took his hands in hers. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z These two factors—childhood poverty and a singleparent household—are among the strongest predictors that a child will have a criminal future. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Many of their newborn children will also contract aids and die of the virus in childhood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My childhood was an endless blur of narrow streets of dirt and cobblestone, my squabbling baby sisters, and the rural silence. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z In her father’s palace she had watched them from her childhood, their stormy meetings, the black clouds they summoned and the wild red lightning. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I grew up among nineteen first cousins, and they each played a pivotal role in my childhood and teen years. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Again their sweet voices reminded him of the gap in his own childhood, as he leaned against the cedar to watch them. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Ear, Eye and Arm often looked down on these fires and imagined they were back in the distant village of their childhood. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Since his imprisonment, Noris had moped horribly, as if Nelson were a lost love instead of “the monster” who had tortured her all her childhood. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The old marks of accidents and bad food and childhood illnesses all washed away. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I know it was. on a Sunday because we were coming home from church, and every Sunday in my childhood meant church. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I felt as though I had now discarded the last remnant of my childhood. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Patients in traditional forms of psychotherapy while away their fifty minutes reliving childhood conflicts and learning to blame their unhappiness on how their parents treated them,” Pinker wrote. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I had never taken a hot bath, and my childhood memories were of cold, of loneliness, and of a perpetually empty stomach. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z From early childhood, Izzy had been fiercely, stubbornly independent; she refused to ask for help with anything. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I run my fingers over the tiny valleys made by the pen that pressed against these pages so long ago, and I remember the only thing Gram ever told me about her childhood. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Her gripe with Rhonda had been petty, as most childhood resentments are. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was wondering, do you know much about Gram’s childhood?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z “He can draw something from his childhood,” Noelle says next to me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Kabuo had done what he could in these circumstances to assist the friend he had known since childhood, a boy he’d fished with years earlier. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It was the slow retraction, the retreat into autonomy which signaled the approaching end of Briony’s childhood. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z These, and bits of local lore recalled from his childhood, he would tell in his soft slurry dialect, and then growing tired would ask me for a story. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I reckon we all have our childhood scars, whether we wear them on the outside or not. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z When I reached Cleveland Avenue, the street on which Halliday had grown up, I sprinted down the cracked sidewalk to the front steps of his childhood home. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When she installed her new husband in her childhood home, I bet she gave him Nellie’s old space to use for his clothing. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z When he disappears into the backyard with the two girls, it occurs to me his priorities at a house party might not revolve around reconnecting with his strange childhood friend. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z But then I forgot about him, and even the memory of his holding me precious melted into the general darkness just beyond the great blinkers of childhood. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z His happiest,: most contented childhood moments were when his belly was full. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Gender was like a native tongue; it didn’t exist before birth but was imprinted in the brain during childhood, never disappearing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z That was the lesson Langan learned from his childhood: distrust authority and be independent. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I spent much of my childhood listening to the sound of striving. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In the next instant, a time out of my childhood flashed before me: the day Loma turned twelve. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Since childhood, my brother’s mouth has been two steps ahead of his head.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He wears a key to his childhood home around his neck, but he doesn’t know the last time he actually thought about the boy who used to push it into the lock. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I loved the walks with my uncle, because they gave me a chance to talk about my childhood, about growing up with my father and older brother. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “A dog whose childhood was lost for children?” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Our childhood babysitter, who Charlie had an endless crush on, is here with her new husband. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Her steady beam of love was unsettling, and she had never dropped those expressions of affection that had been so lovable in her childhood. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Then we spend the rest of the lunch period talking about what Dad told me about Gram’s childhood and what I found in her closet. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Zlata and I lost our childhood innocence because we were denied the right to do childlike things, like go to school, talk on the phone, and just play outside. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z In this great splash of love, he has remembered my dearest childhood wish. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere deep inside her she must have harbored resentment and anger for a father who was absent during her childhood and adolescence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I had been painting, I said, since early childhood, but that, following the advice of Pablo Picasso, who was one of the oldest and dearest friends of my parents, I had never exhibited. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Just joining a minyan for evening services or listening to the chazzan’s chanting was like stepping back into my childhood home. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z This woman who was so down to earth and practical in all other aspects of life sublimated her childhood passion and lived it tragically. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition, measles and some of our other “childhood” diseases are more likely to kill infected adults than children, and all adults in the tribelet are susceptible. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Then someone threw a small stone at her, and her childhood fled, flailing its thin arms. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Jack can be the same way about his own childhood. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z There was nothing left to sell, no more childhood friends or Christmas presents. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I learned on the long ride that Anthony and Ben were childhood friends from Piscataway, New Jersey. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Whatever the formal status, the marriage was a successful and seemingly happy one, producing four daughters and two sons who survived childhood, and two more babies who died in infancy. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Not to my grandfathers' graves or my mother's childhood home or the site of their first official date. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was the backdrop: Buck’s Peak was theirs and it camouflaged them, so that when I saw them there, surrounded by the loud, sharp relics of my childhood, the setting seemed to absorb them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Like those disinterred dead from his childhood that had been relocated to accommodate a highway. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I thought back to my own childhood and my own neighborhood, and how the word “ghetto” got thrown around like a threat. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Except back then she had her childhood best friend to talk her down. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z There were still remnants of my childhood dread of white people somewhere in the recesses of my mind, but nothing major happened to rekindle it. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z This is the genuinely decisive technology of modern medicine, exemplified best by modern methods for immunization against diphtheria, pertussis, and the childhood virus diseases, and the contemporary use of antibiotics and chemotherapy for bacterial infections. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Kira remembered watching her childhood companions at such play, preparing for the real scramble of adult life. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Nearer, she watched the women leaving the weaving shed where she had worked as helper for so much of her childhood. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Flaying the nettles was becoming a self-purification, and it was childhood she set about now, having no further need for it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z And I leave any last shred of my childhood on the rough planks of that living room floor. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Yet his siblings, with the same parents and same unsettled childhoods, followed a more conventional path in adulthood. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Here are some of the comments I jotted down: “This is the chicken I remember from my childhood. It actu-ally tastes like chicken.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “No,” I say, letting sleeping memories of my childhood spent backstage resurface. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z She became sick and had to return home, but she didn’t feel safe, even in the security of her childhood bedroom. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I was at the end of my sixth month when my childhood friend Mo- hamed arrived at the center. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Victoria had a difficult childhood: She said she was “worked like a slave” and “whipped like a convict.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z And what I felt, standing there, was not fear or remorse but only terrible, crushing humiliation, a dreadful, red-faced shame I hadn’t felt since childhood. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “So now the penance you’ve given yourself is to be a scythe, forever doomed to take lives as punishment for that one childhood act.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z On this year’s Day of the Dead, I’m staring at myself in a full-length mirror and trying not to think about the terrible graveyard celebrations of my childhood. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They have served as judge, jury, and executioner for your entire childhood, and it feels like they give you a life sentence for every misdemeanor. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “He had problems, possibly certain childhood traumas that had affected him. He was misunderstood. Underneath I think he was a caring and sensitive person.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z And the talk would weave, roll, surge, spurt, veer, swell, having no specific aim or direction, touching vast areas of life, expressing the tentative impulses of childhood. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He always has something to tell me, a story or a memory from his childhood, to distract me. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z In a place where, as soon as we were teenagers, we’d have to cover our heads and hide ourselves from the boys who’d been our childhood playmates, we ran as free as the wind. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In 2000, he went to the Wall and found the name of his childhood friend, Louis Taylor, on Panel 43E, Row 36. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Clara’s childhood came to an end and she entered her youth within the walls of her house in a world of terrifying stories and calm silences. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It took her back to her childhood, to long grey days at Riverrun. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He felt the cold bleakness of the General’s childhood underlying the man’s personality. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Having never had a normal childhood, I didn’t miss birthdays; to me they were simply like other days: to be survived. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Music play: The early childhood music curriculum guide. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z And once I began retrieving the lost pleasures of my childhood, I began to write stories for children. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Before the Claremonts, the Kennedys and Clintons shielded the First Offspring from the press, giving them the privacy to go through awkward phases and organic childhood experiences and everything else. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He thinks he has failed in the real world, although he once created a famous illustration for canned pork and beans that I can remember from childhood. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Halliday referred to this show several times in Anorak's Almanac, citing it as one of his childhood favorites. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z One by one they came, smelling of soap and childhood. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though there weren’t many Muslims in my high school, we had a diverse Muslim community in New Jersey that formed such a large part of my childhood and teen years. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Molly’s own childhood memories are scant and partial. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z They have a long childhood, during which they have much to learn. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z All of the anger that had built up in my heart throughout my childhood years was released at that moment. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z His childhood was coming back to him, with a vengeance. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I did, and it’s not something I can ever get back. I want you to enjoy your childhood as much as possible.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z But after the Assignments, after childhood, people worked at their assigned jobs. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z At enough speed, in the right kind of light, it became the plane of Luke’s childhood fantasies. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z But Halliday had preserved his childhood forever, here in the OASIS. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A memory came to her from childhood, of seeing at an afternoon birthday party the famous tablecloth trick. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I can’t make you reveal deeply personal details about your childhood by priming you with words like “nap” and “bottle” and “teddy bear.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z For many of us, the curtain has just come down on childhood. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z What flooded Sarai was the emotion of everyone ever left behind, every family member or fiancé, childhood sweetheart or best friend who could do nothing but surrender as their loved one was taken up. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z That was not only his oldest memory, but the only one he had of his childhood. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Ever since his childhood on his father’s Virginia farm, Washington had spent most of his days outdoors. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a hard line for Terryl to draw—the line between support and engagement and going overboard—wanting so much to be involved and to let them have a childhood. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It reminds me of the green water of the mangrove canals near Lita’s childhood home in Tulum, the most peaceful place on Earth. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Wood made this, and it’s the only thing from his childhood Grandma has left—it means the world to her.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z You think about dark closets, madmen, murderers under the bed, all those childhood fears. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A watermelon huckster stood in the shade beside his truck, holding up a long slice of orange-mealed melon, crying his wares with hoarse appeals to nostalgia, memories of childhood, green shade and summer coolness. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Right away I drove to Portsmouth and met my mother’s childhood friend, a slim, brown-haired, soft-spoken woman of Mommy’s age whose eyes, it turned out, were working just fine. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Dadi would sing to us when we were little and tell us stories that she remembered from her childhood, but she never read out of a book. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She seemed like a former neighbor or babysitter who just happened to know about my childhood. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The Jews of Sighet—the little town in Transylvania where I spent my childhood—were fond of him. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They are the ones who have been robbed of a childhood. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Dear everyone: Written on my heart, all that I lost—my shoes, a donkey friend, a city, the skin of my feet, a goat, my home, my childhood—shattered at the hands of history. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Her childhood was as tangible as the shot silk—a taste, a sound, a smell, all of these, blended into an entity that was surely more than a mood. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The main thing, she realized, was to forget your childhood dreams, for the Fire Swamp was bad, but it wasn’t that bad. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He asked about my birthdays, my grade school teachers, my childhood pets — and I had to admit that after killing three fish in a row, I’d given up on the whole institution. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z From her earliest childhood that scream came, with a memory of flowing, spotted skin and rending claws, and later of Ambuya tearing out her hair when they brought Mother’s bones home from the forest. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost one out of ten people died from a sickness that in Western societies was just a childhood annoyance. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But this whole thing about Jack retrieving the glove and not telling anybody, then hiding it beneath a floorboard in his and JonJon’s shared childhood bedroom? Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z The wooden floor, the light blue walls, the peaked ceiling, the yellowed lace curtains around the window — these were all a part of my childhood. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z "She had a lousy childhood. I'm not kidding." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Roland Weary was only eighteen, was at the end of an unhappy childhood spent mostly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z My childhood is a blur of quick images, like the twirling of a télétrope. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Now, these were the only Negroes I knew or had contact with in the days of my flypaper childhood, and you can see how little I was prepared for the great world. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z To think the guy whose downfall basically took our respective childhoods with it was begging for change fifteen minutes from my house six years later? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z I wasn’t ready to give up my childhood. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Malala describes her childhood village in the mountains of Swat so clearly I can imagine the crisp clean air, waterfalls, and jagged cliffs with narrow suspension bridges. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Bathtime, teatime, bedtime—the hinge of the day: these childhood sacraments of water, food and sleep had all but vanished from the daily round. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I asked about his childhood, because the fact is that I had not known Prince all that well. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I know this will be a difficult task, since anyone Peeta shares childhood memories with would most likely be from town, and almost none of those people escaped the flames. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z And I knew your daddy all his life, we grew up together, we were childhood friends. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m afraid all those childhood lessons in holiness slid off me like hot butter off the griddle. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z My shyness fell away from me, loosening as it did so my reluctant tongue, and out they all came, the little secrets of childhood, the pleasures and the pains. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z His childhood friend from Selma, Louis Taylor, was just days away from finishing his tour when his plane was shot down and everyone aboard died.More bad news followed a month later. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Except: He never talked about his family or his childhood. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Because of his family history and European childhood, Houseman learned four languages by the time he was five years old—French, English, German, and Romanian. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “She suggested that I draw something from my childhood, and that made me remember the maps.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Few of my classmates or professors knew of my church-bombing experience or any of the other traumatic events from my childhood. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Our little backyard was dominated by my childhood swing set, which was looking pretty waterlogged and pathetic. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Maybe David’s childhood hadn’t been completely different from her own. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z In that first year, I learned more about poverty than I did in all my childhood days in Qunu. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In childhood, he rode in the last of the great cattle drives; at thirteen, he was already a skilled horse breaker. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z During my childhood, Congo was the best place in the world because it was the only place in the world. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z For most of my childhood, it just sat there, waiting for a perfect evening that never happened. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “As in my childhood, warm milk smooths the edges of the day,” the scythe had told her. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Reaching the top of Everest is supposed to trigger a surge of intense elation; against long odds, after all, I had just attained a goal I’d coveted since childhood. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z They had grown out of childhood in the last few days. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Blanca arrived at the river and found her childhood friend sitting at the spot where they had met so many times. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We had not only lost our childhood in the war but our lives had been tainted by the same experiences that still caused us great pain and sadness. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Bobby, perhaps because of the indigence of his childhood, hated the idea of people making money off his name. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “You were the one who suggested I do stuff from childhood,” I continue. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The fences still buzz with news and gossip, and the mountains and hollows echo with the joyful clamor of childhood adventures. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Judith had been carefully hoarding a small store of linens since childhood, adding one cherished bit from time to time, and her loom and needle had worked busily. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Someone had uncovered the story of Clara’s childhood muteness and the curse of Father Restrepo— that saintly man who the Church was hoping would become the first in the country to attain beatitude. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The question, asked continually throughout our childhood, was, Who is he hiding these things from? Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z But now it was humid out, his childhood asthma acting up, and Marius was feeling unhappy and unwell when I came roller-skating by. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z During his childhood he was always sick, he couldn’t work like other boys his age. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I had an unspoken attachment to it. It was a contact with my childhood, a link with the past.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We went that way through all the old childhood diseases except for chicken pox. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The story lasted late into the night Vasudeva listened with great attention; he heard all about his origin and childhood, about his studies, his seekings, his pleasures and needs. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z And finally the story made sense—the one on the page, and the one that had lived in me through childhood. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I was transported in thought to the scenes of childhood: I dreamt I lay in the red-room at Gateshead; that the night was dark, and my mind impressed with strange fears. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Although I passed my childhood on the same mountain that my father had passed his, slopping pigs in the same iron trough, I know very little about his boyhood. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They lived without fear of what would happen when they stepped over the border between childhood and adolescence. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I wrote these stories down in my prison journal, and it gave me a lot of pleasure to recall my childhood. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z As she watched the spirit of her mother drift away, she had seen the cindered fragments of her childhood life whirl into the sky as well. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Hilda cooks a familiar meal, and the whole house smells like our childhood. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d like to pause under the beautiful red oaks where my sisters and I played in our childhood. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not all,” Grandma counters with just a hint of the French accent that remains from her childhood in the orphanage. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Spaniards, exposed in childhood to the virus, were mostly immune. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z But those short moments had made it all worthwhile, those moments of pure plenary abandon, when he felt as if he, and he alone, were in control of the universe of his childhood. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Some children’s singing games have their roots in circle dances, while others reflect social traditions of courtship and marriage, friendship, overcoming childhood fears, or just expressing the fun and merriment of childhood. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z She had not called me Meimei, my childhood name, in many years. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d spent his childhood climbing and skiing in the nearby mountains. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Educated children never offered excuses—certainly not childhood itself. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z If reading books doesn’t have an impact on early childhood test scores, could it be that the books’ mere physical presence in the house makes the children smarter? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z She had seen others of her children die in early childhood or at birth, but none had caused the sense of loss that she felt now. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Her aunt had always prophesied that Elizabeth would come to no good end, proud, and vain, and foolish as she was, and having been allowed to run wild all her childhood days. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Mom spent her childhood playing outdoors, riding her red bicycle around the reservation, and eating fresh seafood. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z There they were again, the images of my childhood: bold, striding, confident, their arms flung out as if to claim space, their legs apart, feet planted squarely on the earth. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z In Barack’s childhood, his father disappeared and his mother came and went. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z First, even our cognitive abilities as adults are heavily influenced by the social environment that we experienced during childhood, making it hard to discern any influence of preexisting genetic differences. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We never had one flower in our yard the whole of my childhood. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I suddenly remembered my childhood fantasy that, should I ever win a lottery, I would buy a grand piano for my mother. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z This became the backdrop for the montage of nostalgic childhood memories that played in my mind. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They were discussing his childhood with Tex John, and suddenly Perry, who had too much drink inside him, pushed her against a wall and held her there. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew she was determined to give them the kind of carefree childhood she hadn’t had. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Like school satchels, they evoke in an instant memories of childhood. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Images from her childhood—riding in a wagon behind her brother, picking through trash—return to her. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A part of me still believed all those childhood stories he’d told us about how invincible he was. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, people were standing in grocery store lines and talking about the cities of my childhood, Kandahar, Herat, Mazar-i-Sharif. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z If someone had asked Jethro to name a time when he left childhood behind him, he might have named that last week of March in 1862. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z I would try desperately to think about my childhood, but I couldn’t. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Joseph Hooper had spent that part of his childhood before school, and between terms, in this house, and he did not like it, he had unhappy memories of Warings. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z My childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z My childhood friend Alisha lives in North Carolina but used to visit me in New York at least twice a year. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Let us study war as if it were, as Einstein aptly called it, an illness of childhood. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We were so pleased with each other, the childhood friend found at last, the childhood friend mysteriously grown up. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My story discloses instead an essential myth of childhood—inevitable pain. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They reminded him of his childhood and living in the countryside, where horses were the only means of transportation. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z It doesn’t matter if he’s just reading chemistry trivia off index cards or eating a hot dog or embarrassed because his parents are talking about his childhood or even now, looking tired and wearing glasses. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Everyone was surprised, because they had been childhood sweethearts, as the expression goes. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z In the last two hours of his life he did not manage to understand why the fear that had tormented him since childhood had disappeared. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Almost all studies of child development emphasize the role of childhood stimulation and activity in promoting mental development, and stress the irreversible mental stunting associated with reduced childhood stimulation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That episode aside, his childhood had been O.K. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Christmas had always brought good memories into my childhood—a bright light shining through the dark days of segregation and Jim Crow laws. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He talked about his childhood, leaving out things that would be hard to explain. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And we’d enlisted mayors from five hundred cities and towns across the country to commit to tackling childhood obesity on the local level. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He had experienced the beginning of contempt, but now the childhood fear and respect and animosity came back to him, so that he seemed a little boy testing his father’s immediate mood to escape trouble. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I pulled up a map of the town and traced a route from my current location to Halliday’s childhood home. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When I close my eyes and summon the fond smells of childhood, do I smell gingerbread baking or the pine-fresh scent of Christmas trees? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The books had been promised to Ashoke throughout his childhood, and for as long as he could remember he had coveted them more than anything else in the world. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The one gnarl of her childhood was the knowledge that, if she did not die of one of her diseases, she would eventually have to marry and go live with in-laws. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z She couldn’t look the woman in the face, and now she regretted having confessed this dark secret from her childhood. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z With the cold lemonade they were sufficient for childhood’s lifelong diet. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I think of reassuring her by telling her that my childhood is over anyway. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z From my earliest childhood I’ve felt that something was going on in the groves, something of which I was not a part. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Hrothgar went back to his high, carved chair, relinquishing the bowl to the noblest of his thanes, and sat like an old man listening inside his mind to the voices of his childhood. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The brain is malleable from childhood to adulthood. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I sat cross-legged at the foot of the tree and looked south on the city of my childhood. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The amateurs never practiced more than about three hours a week over the course of their childhood, and by the age of twenty they had totaled two thousand hours of practice. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She remembered, from her childhood in Rook Hill, visiting her grandparents’ graves in the family plot behind her mother’s old home. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He had had a tumultuous childhood and quit school in the seventh grade. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z There were only two pictures of Aunt Cilla’s childhood before she met and married Mr. Logan and lived in Bridgeport. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “You place a deal of trust in this man Griff. Another friend of your childhood?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Did this depression of his start in childhood? Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Seeded in childhood, watered every day since, fear had sprouted through her veins all her life. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I go down the stairs, past the assembly of our childhood portraits. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z For several months during his childhood there had been confused street fighting in London itself, some of which he remembered vividly. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It was the same floral print from my childhood. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A childhood nickname doesn't exactly fit the image of me I want Al to see. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Indeed, rather like Michael Jackson in our own time, Mozart’s childhood had been forfeited to make way for a career as a freakishly talented boy prodigy to be touted around an adult world. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I still held on to the worries I'd had since childhood. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Plus she talks, which just goes to show you her childhood was not entirely on the up-and-up. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The carpet, the wallpaper, the kitchen table and countertops—everything was the same as it was in the slides I’d seen of my mother’s childhood. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z There is a long childhood in which the adults teach the young. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She wrote a memoir about her childhood called Period Piece, in which she described her grandmother Emma, her Darwin aunts and uncles, and Down House. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Can he tell of the Marine who stormed the beaches of his childhood? The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z If the Olympic Peninsula truly is heart medicine for them, considering what happened in their childhoods. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z But now I’d reached an age where certain childhood mysteries begin to make sense. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I tell her I will trust in his kindness now, for I must dwell in the house of today, where little Hamlet plays in all the innocence of childhood. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Despite its uselessness, the receipt helped ease the sting of parting with the last thing I owned from my childhood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She was so pleased with herself for being firm, when her best childhood memories were the few times her father was home from being out to sea or on the road. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Slowly and in a singing voice he began to recite it; the words came back to him out of the past and his childhood. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Many years later, when she began to feel she was the equal of her great-grandmother, Fernanda doubted her childhood vision, but her mother scolded her disbelief. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Learning to Rule The details of Cleopatra’s childhood are unknown, but there is no doubt that she was extremely well educated. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Scene after scene from their childhood played in his head until he was in the parking lot of the complex. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Ignatius had always had a poor sense of balance, and ever since his obese childhood, he had suffered a tendency to fall, trip, and stumble. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Marcela called the jockey by his childhood name, Johnny; though Pollard was approaching thirty, Charles hadn’t been able to break his habit of referring to him as a boy. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Then a witch had stepped out of his childhood nightmares to grab him, and he’d lived through that. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought of all the evidence that the court had never reviewed about his childhood. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z We went by way of Cambridge Street, and passed even the Novanglian College of Lucidity; pausing, both, for a moment to regard it, where we had spent so many hours of my childhood together. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z It belonged to Aimee as a kid, a relic from her mother’s childhood. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Beneath those parts of my childhood, though, the ugly little pieces of my story were falling into place. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z We had been foolish virgins in the war, right at the end of childhood. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z If you will remember, in my childhood I had been exposed to the Black Nationalist teachings of Marcus Garvey—which, in fact, I had been told had led to my father’s murder. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as vast and blue as the oceans on the movie screens of my childhood. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Now, imprisoned with the weight of my childhood ever more dismally heaped upon me, I longed for that earlier stint with the arms spread wide. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z We sat in the living room; the carpet was the same crisp white from my childhood. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Just after reading time ended, either on weekends or when we got word of trouble, Mother and Grandma would begin the ritual I watched for my entire childhood. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It had been Ethel’s childhood Bible that Martin gave to Cora, smudged and stained by her fingers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z We sing Hebrew songs at our meetings, but usually someone will share one from their childhood, in their native tongue. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z What I want is to go back in time—to a childhood I didn’t have—and be a carefree girl like Blanca, giggling with her big sister, sharing jokes and dreams. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And so, in this time between childhood and adulthood, she settled in to learn her trade. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Did she happen to have a childhood friend or high school classmate who had taken a different path? he asked. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z As they walked into the steam room, Frank thought of his grandmother, his mom, and his cursed childhood, thanks to Juno and her piece of firewood. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Then Timothy told me what he could remember from his own childhood. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Symptoms of second childhood— what do they call it?—senility? Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The sunlight came into the room with the peacefulness one remembers from rooms in one’s early childhood—a sunlight encountered later only in one’s dreams. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z She told him about her childhood on Randall where she had picked cotton, tugging a sack. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z There is one day from my early childhood that I will never forget: the day my mother locked herself in her bedroom and would not come out. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I’ve lost all the words to my childhood prayers, so my head rings with its own Grand Silence. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He cradled one of his childhood toys in his hands, a wooden duck. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z During my own childhood, the battles continued, and I was always aware of them. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z In the days before the service, my mother’s siblings began to gather at their childhood home. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind people to one another from childhood and raise them together. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Cent, who had been there so much in their childhood and in their adulthood, too. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I peer out through the glass of the train window, which is streaked with rain and dust, and there is the landscape of my early childhood, smudged and scentless and untouchable and moving backward. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z His childhood had been a pleasant, though disciplined, one. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I hadn’t gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and before birth, finally, to commune with the dead. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He had spent his childhood moving freely between the bungalow and the main house. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The album was like any other, complete with a few childhood photos of playing in the yard and by the pool and things like that. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Lawrence had asked his childhood friend to double-check the Rad Lab’s results using the Carnegie’s accelerator, the only machine in the world that could approach the cyclotron’s energies. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He wished now that he had his own childhood story of India. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z This was one of the few days she and I ever spent together, just the two of us, and it confirmed something I’d felt since early childhood. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The childhood pudginess has vanished from his face. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It was the culmination of four weeks of shocks in the Moscote household because little Remedios had reached puberty before getting over the habits of childhood. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z This would have been a funny incident to remember from my childhood, but it is actually a memory I recall from time to time with a mixture of nausea and remorse. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The sounds and memories of my own childhood refugee camp came rushing back—children playing, pots banging. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z His had been a childhood of privations, discomfort, harshness, interminable nighttime rosaries, fear, and guilt. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Tuve upbraided Lawrence with all the authority of his six weeks’ advantage in age and with all the frank liberty afforded to one childhood friend speaking to another. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Before his cousin Ashleigh’s wedding, for example, he dropped her off at a small spa near his childhood home, to get her eyebrows shaped. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I could imagine people bundling up and waiting to hear a band whose every lyric they could sing or enduring a snowy Super Bowl for a team they'd followed since childhood. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Her childhood had ended, she decided now as she came away from the swimming pool, the moment she tore down her poster. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z People who have had highly abusive childhoods also do well; like stroke victims, they’ve had to practice the difficult art of reading minds, in their case the minds of alcoholic or violent parents. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z For Ruth it was the summation of the affectionate elegance with which she believed her childhood had been surrounded. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z That is where I spent the rest of my childhood and my adolescence. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The Alexandra of my childhood and youth was a shantytown of mostly shacks, a few decent houses, lots of gutters and lots of unpaved, potholed streets with numbers from First to Twenty-third. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Behavior that had seemed clever and precocious in childhood would have been considered uncouth in a young woman. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The sweetness of her, the delicacy, his childhood friend, and now in danger of becoming unreachable. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Chase me!” he yells, out of breath, full of the wriggling ecstasy of childhood. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She sighs, then announces to the room: “Craig can draw something from his childhood.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z He also lived out a fantasy that he had probably cultivated since childhood. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The other little dog, the one who had been his childhood companion for years, had lived a happy, active life, died in his sleep, and had been buried with ceremony and sadness beyond the garden. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z “I have no family, it is just me. No one will be able to tell stories about my childhood.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I looked back at her, my heart squeezing at the sound of her childhood nickname for me. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I felt a catch in my throat and a sadness that reached clear back to my childhood. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z “I always thought the kids would spend their entire childhoods here. You know, having the same type of childhood you had. Being supported by the neighborhood. Knowing everyone by name.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Our end-of-semester English project was supposed to be a giant collection of stories from our childhood. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z He told long, wild stories about his childhood; as I pumped panting up steep hills he glided along beside me, joking steadily. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z There are many cases in which one twin is killed in childhood, in a riding accident, say, or is struck by lightning, while the other lives to a prosperous old age. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In these ash heaps lay a lost and delightful world, the world of my childhood, the world of sweet and irresponsible days at Qunu and Mqhekezweni. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d had so many throat infections that the smell of it—“pink drink,” her father called it—became part of her childhood, like music she barely noticed during a scene in a movie. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Only a hint, as if sometime in her childhood, people around her had spoken a language that was close to singing. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It rang again in my hand now and for no reason at all the words of a childhood prayer spilled through my mind like swift water. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z None of them had been to Coney Island in years, and it looked more like an alien planet than their childhood stomping ground. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Her name was Mary and she was a junior studying early childhood education. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And even if you disregard that part of it, there was strong evidence that the death penalty should not be imposed because of Herbert's trauma, military service, and childhood difficulties. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z One might be the spark of a memory of the smell of lilacs on a country road in childhood. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z With these few mouthfuls of hot water, I had probably given him more satisfaction than during my entire childhood . Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Our house was always filled with books, many of them from my mother’s childhood. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z He missed his children dearly as he walked around his old childhood home and its grounds. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z All the secrets she made her childhood best friends pinkie swear to never tell another soul. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z She was thin, but her face was still soft, round with childhood. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Tilburg is a manufacturing town in North Brabant in the Netherlands, known today as the place Van Gogh did his childhood schooling. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z My awkward childhood does not prove the necessity of bilingual education. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z That I was angry about my childhood left to wither and starve in the woods. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Rebecca—I had hated her from childhood, but somehow I knew that these were not her words. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Prosecutors, he says, lose cases all the time around childhood abuse, around issues where it is hard for people to acknowledge the reality of the terrible things people can do to one another. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Deborah didn’t know she had a sister for much of her childhood. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Many of Wolfgang’s childhood compositions, such as the first seven of his concertos for piano and orchestra, are largely arrangements of works by other composers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The magical time of childhood stood still, and the pulse of the living earth pressed its mystery into my living blood. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The power of musical play: The value of play-based, child-centered curriculum in early childhood music education. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Jonas remembered, suddenly and grimly, the time in his childhood when he had been chastised for misusing a word. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z But it was only an occasional, terrible visitor in the Americas, which meant that most adult colonists had not acquired childhood immunity. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z All that Daenerys wanted back was the big house with the red door, the lemon tree out-side her window, the childhood she had never known. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I spoke French and English with my parents, but was still fluent in the language of my childhood friends. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Between only one job interview this summer and his childhood friend’s funeral, I was afraid I’d never see him laugh again. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z But regularly reading to a child doesn’t affect early childhood test scores. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Our city was the pride of Poland,” Jack recalled, remembering his childhood. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z He wasn’t going to pursue his childhood dream of becoming a naturalist. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z I ask, thinking of the childhood wounds on my own legs. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Daddy gave them to me; I had a lovely childhood.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z And even childhood was no good any more—not the way it was. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He was old enough, twelve years and a few months, to have lost the prominent tummy of childhood; and not yet old enough for adolescence to have made him awkward. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Shepherd was an acquired taste: He told tales in novelistic form about his childhood in the Midwest, his life in the army, and his adult misadventures in New York City. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Everyone is guilty of something, and everyone still harbors a memory of childhood innocence, no matter how many layers of life wrap around it. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I don’t claim to have been that great, but it would have been nice to carry a childhood dream of playing in the majors that most children have. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Their offspring had long childhoods—ten years at least—growing very slowly, as far as she could interpret their explanation. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z For most of his childhood, there was never any doubt in Dae Hyun’s mind that he would eventually take over the business. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Heading inland, it is a short walk out of the city into a landscape that is reminiscent of his childhood in Zundert: fields and farms, windmills. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He rambled on about his childhood and his seven brothers and sisters who had all died young. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Having acceded to her husband’s indulgent discipline throughout Ernest’s childhood and adolescence, Gunda now put her foot down, insisting that he attend St. Olaf College, a cloistered Lutheran institution in frigid Northfield, Minnesota. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Those carefree Christmases of my childhood seemed like a lifetime ago. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z A daughter I could take care of and make happy seemed to heal some of my pain at having lost my own childhood. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Although I am rather hungry, and you have, after all, just sold a memento of my childhood for thirty pieces of silver, so to speak.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It had to do with his childhood, and the Alamo. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Stevie Wonder, my childhood idol, was showing up to play at campaign events, joking and calling me by my first name as if we’d known each other forever. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Throughout childhood my younger sister said, “When I grow up, I want to be a slave,” and my parents laughed, encouraging her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I became a different person, who remembered a different childhood. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She was Dolios’ daughter, taken as ward in childhood by Penelope who gave her playthings to her heart’s content and raised her as her own. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I continue to sort out what’s just my childhood, just my imagination, just my family, just the village, just movies, just living. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z For me, it was a straightforward good thing—a potent, ground-level way to address childhood obesity. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Beginning in early childhood, their government has taught them that South Korea started the war with the encouragement and armed assistance of the United States. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Scrubbing clothes on a washboard until her knuckles bled—that was the preeminent memory of Erma’s childhood. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Most of my childhood sucked, but our summers in Mexico were different. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Also seen in the historical background of all the cases was the occurrence of extreme parental violence during childhood. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z When he was younger, he had admired people with moneyed childhoods and foreign accents, but he had come to sense an unvoiced yearning in them, a sad search for something they could never find. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills—a side effect of spending most of my childhood inside the OASIS. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As though sheer willpower was enough to suspend her children’s childhoods until she could afford to have them living with her. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She turned over some pages of childhood snapshots—pictures made in Utah and Nevada and Idaho and Oregon. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Born in Danville, Indiana, in 1915, Harvey's upbringing was a world away from the elite childhoods of most CIA officials, a fact he was conscious of throughout his career. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Citra was in the same dance class, back in that magical childhood time when little girls nurtured the delusion that they were as graceful as they were cute. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Never once had he imagined Dumbledore’s childhood or youth; it was as though he had sprung into being as Harry had known him, venerable and silver-haired and old. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Perhaps as a legacy of his childhood, Jesse remained an obsessive reader. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Tam Lin often talked to him about his childhood in Scotland as though Matt were another adult. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z My father bought a small white chicken, my mother brewed beer, a few relatives were invited, and a small celebration was held to mark George’s passage from infancy to childhood. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She awoke from a long childhood in which she had always been protected and surrounded by attention and comforts, with no responsibilities. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The man Henry remembers is both superhuman and heartbreakingly flesh and blood, a man who encompassed Henry’s entire childhood and charmed the world but was also simply a man. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z In adulthood I am embarrassed by childhood fears. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She began telling me my life’s story, with such accuracy, from childhood all the way to the present, that all I could do was gasp. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Throughout his childhood in the medieval city of Speyer on the Rhine, his parents had struggled to make ends meet on his father's wages as a carpenter. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Earlier in the year, one of Jayme’s childhood friends, a boy, came out to her as gay. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z She knew that any kind of boat reminded him of his childhood. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Then he gave them one and a half single-spaced pages about his childhood. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The power was not yet on along South Beach, and as Ishmael Chambers drove through the snow he glanced into the candlelit windows of the homes he’d known since childhood. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He wanted his childhood again, his scraped knees and ball games. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z My father spent his childhood going on field trips to the historic sites of Maryland, playing video games with his friends, and eating fresh seafood. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z When she tired of these melodies she improvised on the songs of her childhood. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside the homemade envelope waits Werner’s childhood notebook, his handwriting across the cover: Questions. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “I wanted you to have a childhood,” Mami sniffs, wiping her tears. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z She had linked her underground lair to their childhood home. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I already spent a whole childhood thinking I’d wrecked the life of my twin sister, dragged after me into the light. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of my childhood photos include images of Samira and me, rolling around on intricate Persian rugs without a care in the world. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Others say she suffered from a broken heart after her childhood sweetheart and betrothed died in a freak accident. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z She was starting to look at colleges with programs in early childhood education. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z They were both men whom childhood had abandoned without a trace. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z One late Friday evening when I was nearing the end of my tenth year an event occurred that precipitated the greatest crisis of my childhood: I was an eyewitness to a murder. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I had an older second cousin in the Navy, stationed in Europe, whom I met only once in my childhood. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z What was needed was a revolution, a reversal of the ancient, brittle roles we’d been playing out since my childhood. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z All the memories of my childhood suffering came back and multiplied to a lifetime of continuous suffering, and I felt I could take no more. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z So Havens drove home each day from a summer job at a stone supply warehouse to work the phone from his cluttered childhood bedroom. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z But Lancelot had spent his childhood between knightly exercises and thinking out King Arthur's theory for himself. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But in any case an elaborate mental training, undergone in childhood and grouping itself round the Newspeak words crimestop, blackwhite, and doublethink, makes him unwilling and unable to think too deeply on any subject whatever. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was that crossing of stature, names, and character that made Úrsula suspect that they had been shuffled like a deck of cards since childhood. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “Imagine having to learn a completely different version of history from your childhood. Here, it’s not the American War of Independence, but the Revolutionary War,” replies Elizabeth’s mom, biting into her scone. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z My mother prepared us for the move by telling us about her wonderful childhood and the glories of the Bronx. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I have no desire to speak, of the next several years, the years that conveyed me from childhood to youth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Pet names are a persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z His childhood, his friendships, his carefree sense of security—all of these things seemed to be slipping away. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z The son of Grace and Ernest Turner, the daughter of Emily and Jack Tallis, the childhood friends, the university acquaintances, in a state of expansive, tranquil joy, confronted the momentous change they had achieved. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She has continued to exist, survived her childhood illnesses, the near-drowning in a rip current on Rockaway Beach at the age of twelve, other dramas. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z His childhood illness had helped to make him both self-reliant and something of a dreamer, who loved his creature comforts. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry I wasn’t able to give you a better childhood, Finley.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z That is surely childhood’s end, when you look at a thing like a rabbit needing skinned and have to say: “Nobody else is going to do this.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I do sometimes picture myself with children, for why else am I keeping my notebook, with all the lessons of my childhood in Africa? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It saddened and embarrassed Hall to be publicly castigated by this demigod, this ur-climber who had been one of his childhood heroes. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He was old, and leaned heavily on one leg, probably the result of childhood polio. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She had re-membered the stories of her childhood, the most loathly and ancient bugaboo her nurse had ever frightened her with. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Tally grasped his hand, wondering what it was like to see your childhood home reduced to a smoking ruin. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It was weird, imagining Mom having childhood friends. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He was also the village storyteller, and she loved to watch the expressions on his face as he acted out the stories she had heard since childhood. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z My childhood involved church, or some form of church, at least four nights a week. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I realized even while I laughed that his unhappy childhood had been followed by unhappy, imprisoned teenage years followed by unhappy incarceration through young adulthood. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Billy Ray’s childhood, then, consisted of sorrowful years in tarpaper shacks, much ill health, and general all-around human disaster. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Garfield called to Lucretia, using an expression common during his childhood in the Ohio woods, "Why, the child fell like a log!" Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “We were born into war,” I continued, describing my childhood. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He tried to squeeze out some childhood memory that should tell him whether London had always been quite like this. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I must have done other things—like go to school, obviously—but shooting hoops in my backyard is the only thing I remember from childhood. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A speech impediment, which she'd had since childhood, had led to a dislike of speaking in front of others. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t know,” the chubby boy replied; his voice still carried the high pitch of childhood. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Soon I would wake up with a start, my heart pounding, and find that I was back in the room of my childhood, with my books . Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The birth of Bigger Thomas goes back to my childhood, and there was not just one Bigger, but many of them, more than I could count and more than you suspect. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z But that may only be a way of saying that the day I raised my hand in class and spoke loudly to an entire roomfid of faces, my childhood started to end. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z As the dedication ceremony continued at the Apollo, the master of ceremonies, activist-entertainer Harry Belafonte—yet another childhood “uncle”—framed the importance of this historic moment for the audience assembled. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Terryl told her mother she was talking about her childhood for a book. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z They were so much alike and so mischievous during childhood that not even Santa Sofía de la Piedad could tell them apart. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Bobby was conflicted about his intense desire for privacy, and his need—from his earliest days of childhood—for attention. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The house itself was far from the sprawling white mansion I remembered from my childhood. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z At the end of our seclusion, the lodges and all their contents were burned, destroying our last links to childhood, and a great ceremony was held to welcome us as men to society. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I tell her about my childhood and my mother’s apricot rugelach. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z It’s the most barbaric childhood game, mad fun. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z At least there was that—the man who haunted my childhood dreams was hardly ever here. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z A bigger part of me knows this is my destiny, what thirteen years of torture have prepared me for, like my entire, tense childhood can be unspooled. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The humming of my parents’ voices from behind my bedroom wall, which throughout my childhood had filled me with a sense of security, had now become a source of anxiety and panic. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He sees the earthen floor of his childhood home, and the spiderwebbed light of dawn coming through conifers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Two of my closest childhood friends, gone from my life in a night. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Abu rarely spoke about his childhood, so these stories were all new to me, and I loved hearing about where I came from and what my father was like as a child. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He’d spent most of his childhood inside, reading the eclectic books in his mother’s library. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I had not been back to Africa since I was twelve years old, but when you have encountered Africa in childhood, it becomes a section of your mind. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She saw his childhood, before his sight was taken: the rocky Everican shore, an old woman laughing, the tangy smell of mulch, and trees, trees, trees whispering and creaking and laughing and speaking. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z We'd be moving into the sixth house we'd lived in since we arrived in America, while my high school friends continued to occupy their childhood homes. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Jellyfish would have been around for everything else—birth, infancy, toddlerhood, childhood. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Hearing that hoarse, smoky voice again took her back twenty years, to the days of her childhood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z In 1839 he returned to his homeland for the first time since his childhood and was greeted rapturously by crowds chanting 'Hail! The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Moments after that, the saucer entered a time warp, and Billy was flung back into his childhood. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z We embarked on our cosmic voyage with a question first framed in the childhood of our species and in each generation asked anew with undiminished wonder: What are the stars? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of them were Pashtuns, like us, and they would soon come to cast a dark shadow over my sunny childhood. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Nothing in her experience—her difficult childhood, her previous work with injured patients—had prepared her for this kind of hell on earth. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He talked about how he had spent his childhood bouncing around in foster homes, until he and Jason and Piper had been taken to Camp Half-Blood. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z All of childhood’s unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He found Madame Hoo in their rear fourth-floor apartment kneeling before her bamboo trunk, fingering mementoes from her childhood in China. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “This one is from my fantastic childhood. Childhood punishments. The tiny closet upstairs.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z They’d grown so much in the time he’d been gone, yet they were still little girls, clinging to their childhood and their need for his love. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z This is where my father became a farmer and my childhood began. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Vincent is not well enough to go outside right now, but he sets about painting pictures from memory—of their childhood in Zundert. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z So many people in Village—including Matty—had sad memories of their childhoods. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z I was crippled by some childhood fear of my own body. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He thought back to the time of his childhood. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Of course it’s Finnick, who seems to have spent his childhood doing nothing but wielding tridents and manipulating ropes into fancy knots for nets, I guess. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Ethyne had spent her entire childhood carrying the heavy weight of her mother’s stories about the Witch. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I have faint childhood memories of her visiting the house. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “If childhood stories can be corrupted even here, at the top of Isihlangu, that gash in the sky is indeed a threat to us. Bring the Story Box!” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Caleb has a place in every memory of my childhood; he is part of my foundation. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Young sisters in a bed under the roof of their childhood home. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z In his own way Sapo was telling me that his childhood memories were important to him. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z I want to beg her not to throw her childhood away. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The rate of childhood obesity was rising all around the country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z My childhood would always have a line drawn through it, the before and the after. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z My childhood was a happy one in its own bedraggled way. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Hoover, who believed that his men should conquer their deficiencies the way he had conquered his childhood stutter, purged anyone who failed to meet his exacting standards. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It’s the fourth time I’ve had to sit through my childhood medical history and my current issues. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The cure was usually a long process—sometimes lasting years—starting first with childhood memories and even, if possible, memories formed in utero. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z And I dream that someday you will return to Kabul to revisit the land of our childhood. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes Stella tells stories of her childhood, of leafy canopies hidden by mist and the busy songs of flowing water. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z He saw her memories of childhood—roughhousing with her brothers, running around their courtyard home, begging their mother for rock sugar. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z On the one hand, I cherish the memories of the small world where I lived the first years of my childhood. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Morrie’s brother, David—who still walked with a limp from his childhood polio—lifted the shovel and tossed dirt in the grave, as per tradition. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole day, the weeks before, her childhood. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The happy intimacy of his childhood home stayed with Vincent forever. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The flickering images were a far cry from Lourdes’s childhood home: a two-room shack made of wooden slats, its flimsy tin roof weighted down with rocks, the only bathroom a clump of bushes outside. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Thanks to my mother, I did have some childhood experience as a gatherer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z For perhaps two seconds he was back in the half-forgotten world of his childhood. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z She was filling him up with memories, he knew, for the times when he’d have no one to talk to about his childhood. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s no one’s business that he’s on his way to see his childhood best friend and first love, Lena, who’s flown in from Arkansas to see him one last time. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Lio has told me that the nickname comes from El Jefe’s childhood habit of stringing bottle caps across his chest to look like medals. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z That shot destroyed the quiet, moonlit peace of the hill, and it shattered my childhood into a thousand fragments that long ago stopped falling and are now dusty relics gathered in distant memories. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Breathing difficult since childhood due to recurrent throat infections and deviated septum in patient’s nose. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He recalled his childhood, when she surrounded him with dark solicitude, wrapping him in debts of gratitude so huge that as long as he lived he would never be able to pay them back. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Nobody but Uncle Jack, perhaps, who sometimes embarrassed her unmercifully in front of company with a tinkling recitative of her childhood felonies. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z It was the first time that the youngsters were singled out and attention paid to the accomplishments of their childhood. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Love her as in childhood Though feeble, old and grey. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z My grandmother always had wonderful stories to tell me about her childhood and what it was like raising twelve children alone. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z My mother spoke German during her childhood in America and was stoned for it during the First World War by the children at school. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Alex’s childhood was perfumed with simmering peppers and onions and stew meat in a cast iron pot for caldillo, fresh masa waiting on the butcher block. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I seem to have had a fortunate childhood for a writer. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Her learning issues have a known cause: chemotherapy, administered in high doses, to treat childhood leukemia. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Little is known about the medical history of his childhood, but his attendants must have noticed something amiss: that the young prince bruised all too easily, or that his nosebleeds were often unstoppable. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z My father's best Arab friend of his whole childhood was killed next to him on a bench when they were both just sitting there. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Details of my childhood and life in the ghetto shocked him. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Such was the simplicity of childhood, he thought now — events vanished, wordless. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z For most of my childhood, my sister brought me to hysterics from fights and days of the silent treatment. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I sketch them in their rows, like the years of her childhood, Acre and French Fry and Lulu and Susan and Up and all the rest, organized alphabetically. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Seven years later, a childhood friend reappeared at the moment I most needed him. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z That romantic phraseology came from Robert R. Wilson, whose preference for solitude sprang from his childhood on the Wyoming range. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z What does she recall feeling during those difficult, sullen years of my childhood? Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They felt watched by their bemused childhood selves. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z My tears had risen, just as in childhood: I ordered them back to their source. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Gloria and Ruth—Gram’s best friends since childhood—make a beeline for me as soon as they walk in the door. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Nearly all parents are faced with the problem sooner or later, and then the child is lucky if the parent remembers his own childhood. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I would have for a new husband my own playmate, dear since childhood, who loved me so much he was to become a spirit bridegroom for my sake. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z You might think I felt betrayed, my childhood dreams of the University cruelly shattered. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z To the Kathakali Man these stories are his children and his childhood. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your father should be a part of that conversation. But if you want, I can tell you a little more about me. And my childhood. And the reasons why I felt compelled to find her.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I was too young to question Papa's new reality or whether my childhood memories were ever real. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Back into his childhood in Lexington—the important and unimportant things jumbled together. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Keep in mind that these results reflect only a child’s early test scores, a useful but fairly narrow measurement; poor testing in early childhood isn’t necessarily a great harbinger of future earnings, creativity, or happiness. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Two minutes before, they had been in league and now they were at odds—childhood revisited indeed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It was the first spontaneous hug she had given her father since her most remote childhood. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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