“It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.”
“Time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not matter greatly how old the child is-in the blink of an eye, a mother can see the child again as they were when they were born, when they learned how to walk, as they were at any age-at any time, even when the child is fully grown or a parent themselves.”
“How hard it is to see things in life with a child's "eyes of newness" once we have an adult's "eyes of experience".”
“Do you see the queer thing about people like me? Sometimes we hold your retribution.”
“You'll understand me when you're older. Then you'll see how men can blind you. And I mean blind you. To the point that you're no longer yourself.”
“Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.”