“The worst thing about shame is that we imagine we are the only ones to experience it.”
Annie Ernaux
book
La Honte
Quoted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 184, ed. Tom Burns and Jeffrey Hunter (Gale, 2004), p. 164, and in The Poetics of Childhood by Roni Natov (Routledge, 2014), p. 220
Shame (1997)
