… although the sufferings of children are the worst, being inextinguishable–children themselves seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world. [p. 13]

… although the sufferings of children are the worst, being inextinguishable–children themselves seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world. [p. 13]

– Shirley Hazzard –

The Bay of Noon

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