“It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.”
“This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience. And I suppose in some way it is a kind of resilience, a horrible resilience that makes adults believe children forget trauma.”
“Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
“That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.”
“How very much horrible would it be, if achieving everything was so easy! We bear life because there is struggle!”
“I believe in the fatal hairdo just for the love of saying fatal hairdo.”