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Chapter 28 poor Elinor

“You know, it’s a funny thing about writers. Most people don’t stop to think about books being written by people much like themselves. They think that writers are all dead long ago—they don’t expect to meet them in the street or out shopping. They know their stories but not their names, certainly not their faces.”

“Why do grown-ups think it’s easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don’t they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain the secrets?”