“Children are capable of such open rudeness.”
“Only children believe they're capable of everything.”
“Children are bad enough--children are rude, selfish, greedy, and unthinking individuals who are unable to distinguish between their own selfish wants and needs and the wants and needs of others. And adults are children with money, alcohol, and power.”
“Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally…”
“The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.”
“They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.”