Children are much less annoying [than adults] and they never start trends.
As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are so sadly to seek.
As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.
Adults are just children sometimes. But evil, hurt children.
The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.
Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses.
