History Quotes / ChildrenAreSpecial

-->-- '''Dr. Schreber''', ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

->Children instinctively [[ChildMage know ritual and magic]], and those with sufficient imagination can [[TheArchmage accomplish some of the most amazing feats]]. They also know of the forces of [[MagicMisfire Paradox]] and why not to do magick around [[{{Muggles}} Sleepers]]: almost all grownups - and children who act like grownups - [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve think they know everything]]. Magic zap-guns and so on tend to turn back into ordinary toys when grownups are around, but by that same token, the bogeyman in the closet has to hide when mommy's around because she doesn't believe in him. Sleepers ''do'' have their uses.
->Children are among the most powerful and the most dangerous of all mages. Some believe that children lack the necessary willpower for magick. These people obviously have not been around many children, or have forgotten what it is like to be a child. Most ''adults'' lack the willpower to be mages.
-->--''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension - Book Of Shadows''

->''The resilience and plasticity of children, from the psychological to the cellular level, is nothing short of astonishing. It is the miracle of life. Stem cells can become anything. Children with severe epilepsy have a whole hemisphere of their brain removed and yet their body learns to compensate and function at full capacity. This is even more true on the preternatural level. If you start young enough, [[PlayingWithSyringes anything is possible]].''
-->--'''Dr Schreber,''' ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

->The resilience and plasticity of children, from the psychological to the cellular level, is nothing short of astonishing. It is the miracle of life. Stem cells can become anything. Children with severe epilepsy have a whole hemisphere of their brain removed and yet their body learns to compensate and function at full capacity. This is even more true on the preternatural level. If you start young enough, [[PlayingWithSyringes anything is possible]].

->Children take to innovation much more readily than adults do. [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes My granddaughter]] once taught me how to use a new function on my smartphone. She was four years old. What of innovations of the flesh? [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Lycanthropy]] allows protean changes over the essence and shape of one's body. Adult lycanthropes default to rote forms; these standard molds are perhaps [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve shaped in the mind by millennia of communal folklore]]. Life imitates art, and the supernatural imitates superstition. Children are not so constrained by preconceptions. Their minds are wondrous! As frightful as adult lycanthropes are, child lycanthropes [[VoluntaryShapeshifting can achieve]] [[BodyHorror whole new vistas]] of [[OneWingedAngel form and formidableness]]. Give them a smartphone or give them shape-changing and watch them astound.

->Children take to innovation much more readily than adults do. [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes My granddaughter]] once taught me how to use a new function on my smartphone. She was four years old. [[DeconstructedTrope What of innovations of the flesh]]? [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Lycanthropy]] allows protean changes over the essence and shape of one's body. Adult lycanthropes default to rote forms; these standard molds are perhaps [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve shaped in the mind by millennia of communal folklore]]. Life imitates art, and the supernatural imitates superstition. Children are not so constrained by preconceptions. Their minds are wondrous! As frightful as adult lycanthropes are, child lycanthropes [[VoluntaryShapeshifting can achieve]] [[BodyHorror whole new vistas]] of [[OneWingedAngel form and formidableness]]. Give them a smartphone or give them shape-changing and watch them astound.