Precociousness Quotes

“Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been coddled a good deal (also scolded). I was awkward, precocious, timid, full of my private rituals and aversions.”
― Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories

“Join MI5? I was ready to lead it.”
― Ian McEwan, Sweet Tooth

“No outsider was allowed in the station except wives of the higher officers and a few friends. Where was Harriet in all this excitement? In the station, taking the train with the troops to Piraeus.”
― Mary Allsebrook, Born to Rebel: The Life of Harriet Boyd Hawes

“I fink it is a femuw. A femuw of a winowcowus... A a-stinct winocowus.”
― Elizabeth Peters, The Curse of the Pharaohs