"It takes a very long time to become young."
- Pablo Picasso
"To preserve your innocence while acquiring intelligence, that is a true mark of wisdom."
- Charbel Tadros
"Influence is everything. One wrong influence can single handedly destroy every bit of your innocence and innocence is the root of all wisdom."
- John Maiorana (oohGiovanni)
"Our lips were for each other and our eyes were full of dreams. We knew nothing of travel and we knew nothing of loss. Ours was a world of eternal spring, until the summer came."
- Roman Payne
"Ô, Muse of the Heart’s Passion,let me relive my Love’s memory,to remember her body, so brave and so free,and the sound of my Dreameress singing to me,and the scent of my Dreameress sleeping by me,Ô, s..."
"The thing about learning how to fight is that— some of us are not born with that desire. They say some are born fighters; but they don't usually point out that others just aren't. Some of us are force..."
- C. JoyBell C.
"I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They're worse than zomb..."
- J. Cornell Michel
"Nos-tal-gic,’ Akira said, as though it were a word he had been struggling to find. Then he said a word in Japanese, perhaps the Japanese for ‘nostalgic.’ ‘Nos-tal-gic. It is good to be nos-tal-gic. Ve..."
- Kazuo Ishiguro
"Don't tell me there's no place for innocent hearts in this world. Don't tell me I need to accept what I don't believe in. I respect it. Don't confuse my values for my stubbornness, although I am stubb..."
- Najwa Zebian
"Innocence invites protection, yet we might be smarter to protect ourselves against it..."
- Megan Johns