The Stolen Child Quotes

“As I let go of the past, the past let go of me. ”
― Keith Donohue, The Stolen Child

“I am gone and am not coming back, but I remember everything.”
― Keith Donohue, The Stolen Child

“The children will need new stories and fairy tales to see them through their nightmares and daydreams, to transfigure their sorrows and fears at not being able to remain children forever.”
― Keith Donohue, The Stolen Child

“It's only a story.' As if such words made it less real. But I did not believe him even then, for stories were written down, and the words on the page were proof enough. Fixed and permanent in time, the words, if anything, made the people and places more real than the everchanging world.”
― Keith Donohue, The Stolen Child

“To lose one’s name is the beginning of forgetting.”
― Keith Donohue, The Stolen Child

“I beg you to understand and accept that no matter what name, I am what I am.”
― Keith Donohue, The Stolen Child

“Between the covers a book can be a sin. I have spent many hours in search of a waking dream. And once having learned to read, I couldn’t imagine my life otherwise. The indifferent children around me didn’t share my enthusiasm for the written word. Some might sit for a good story while told, but if a book had no pictures they showed scant interest.”
― Keith Donohue, The Stolen Child

“Memory, which so confounds our waking life with anticipation and regret, may well be our one earthly consolation when time slips out of joint.”
― Keith Donohue, The Stolen Child

“Allure goes beyond appearances to the way they grace the world. Some women propel themselves by means of an internal gyroscope. Others glide through life as if on ice skates. Some women convey their tortured lives through their eyes; others encircle you in the music of their laughter.”
― Keith Donohue, The Stolen Child

“I would not want to be a child again, for a child exists in uncertainty and danger. Our flesh and blood, we cannot help but fear for them, as we hope for them to make their way in this life.”
― Keith Donohue , The Stolen Child

“O que a memória perde, a imaginação volta a criar.”
― Keith Donohue, The Stolen Child

“Between the covers, a book can be a sin.”
― Keith Donohue, The Stolen Child