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Quote by Philippa Pearce

“a good deal of childhood is strong stuff for adults and totally unsuitable for children.”

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Philippa Pearce was a renowned British children's author known for her unique narrative techniques and profound insight into the minds of children. Her works have captivated readers with their concise language and rich imagination. more

“Time in China has no immediacy as in America. Here I find the swift passage of our few earthly years accepted as naturally as the fall of flower and leaf. ... I hear and speak a language in which grammar has no tense. Both scholars and illiterates, in ordinary daily speech, tell an event of centuries ago as casually as an incident of the hour. Only as my knowledge has accumulated have I been able to know whether something related happened just then or in some past dynasty.”

Knows Years Able America Past Time Fall Speak Language Hours Happened Century Events Flower Speech Ordinary China Accepted Related Passages Scholar Leafs Grammar Incidents Tense Dynasty Immediacy

Author:Nora Waln

“[In China at that time:] The penalty for adultery is death by strangulation. Mai-da's mother has added the following note to this section; 'Adultery is a feminine vice. Copulation on the man's part is not his wife's concern, unless he sires a child. Then she must accept the child as one of his homestead.”

Men Children Mother Accepting Wife Concern Notes Vices Following China Feminine Penalties Infidelity Sections Adultery

Author:Nora Waln

“I was most confusedly in love. ... Even though I resolved not to think of him, his face would keep appearing between me and a book I tried to read, or his voice would suddenly sound instead of the words I tried to write on a page. ... I found love annoying and uncomfortable, like fetters, until I got used to it.”

Thinking Writing Book Faces Used Found Sound Voice Pages Uncomfortable Annoying Appearing Fetters Found Love

Author:Nora Waln

“Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied.”

Writing Driven Satisfied

Author:Nora Waln

“Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at.”

Ifs Children Left Tree Fruit Left Alone

Book:Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

Source: Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

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