"I'd date someone younger or older age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity."

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The children's writer not only makes a satisfactory connection between [the writer's] present maturity and his past childhood, he also does the same for his child-characters in reverse - makes the connection between their present childhood and their future maturity. That their maturity is never visibly achieved makes no difference; the promise of it is there.

— Philippa Pearce