“I remember my own childhood vividly… I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them”
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American illustrator and writer of children's books 1928–2012Related quotes

Told to Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, as quoted in Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food (New York: Norton & Company, 2009. ISBN 978-0-393-06595-4), Introduction, p. 15 https://books.google.it/books?id=-LeUV2wr2BoC&pg=PA15.

Source: The Autobiography of My Mother

“He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things.”
Source: Every You, Every Me

No Other Way.
Song lyrics, In Between Dreams (2005)

Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 175