"We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean."

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With no banal reassuring grown-ups present, with grown-up intervention taken away, there is no limit to the terror strange children feel of each other, a terror life obscures but never ceases to justify. There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

— Elizabeth Bowen