Quotes by : Shirley Hazzard

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors....

... although the sufferings of children are the worst, being inextinguishable--children themselves seldom....

They walked off on the earthy path, laughing not quite naturally, for they could hardly help being pleased....

He was familiar enough with pleasure to know it might become jaded or reluctant; but joy was literally....

. . . solitude, which is held to be cause of eccentricity, in fact imposes excessive normality, and least....

At the other end of the room the three old men discussed infirmities exchanging symptoms in undertones....