Innocence has nothing to dread.
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
She felt him tremble with the force of his need. He spoke just beneath her ear, his voice thick with tormented pleasure. "You have to leave, Sara. . . because I want to hold you like this until your skin melts into mine. I want you in my bed, the smell of you on my sheets, your hair spread across my pillow. I want to take your innocence. God! I want to ruin you for anyone else.
Nay, droop not, fellows; innocence should be bold.
Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed
Those who judge children in their innocence, prove themselves the lesser of character and the greater of ignorance.
Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.
The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.
The artificial is always innocent.
American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.
Every world has dogs or their equivalent, creatures that thrive on companionship, creatures that are of a high order of intelligence although not the highest and that therefore is simple enough in their wants and needs to remain innocent. The combination of their innocence and their intelligence allows them to serve as a bridge bewtween what is transient and what is eternal, between the finate and the infinate.
Ignorance is not innocence.
Focus on guilt will always breed fear, and focus on innocence will always breed love. Any time we project guilt onto someone else, we are fortifying the experience of guilt within ourselves. Like blood on Lady MacBeth's hands, we cannot remove our own guilty feelings as long as we are judging others.
Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.
Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a lightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat.
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.
I think we look back at times past with fondness because we were younger. Life had not yet begun pecking away at our innocence like buzzards on fresh road kill.