"Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop."

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A book consists of two layers: on top, the readable layer ... and underneath, a layer that was inaccessible. You only sense its existence in a moment of distraction from the literal reading, the way you see childhood through a child. It would take forever to tell what you see, and it would be pointless.

— Marguerite Duras