The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is I think to have a happy childhood.
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
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