The professor husband of a friend of mine has likened children to the insane. I often think of it. He says that children live on the edge of madness, that their behavior, apparently unmotivated, shares the same dream logic as crazy people's. I see what he means, and because I've learned to be patient with children, to tease out the logic that's always somewhere there, and irrefutable once explained,


The Woman Upstairs (ed. Hachette UK, 2013) - ISBN: 9780748126873

Claire Messud Quotes

The professor husband of a friend of mine has likened children to the insane. I often think of it. He says that children live on the edge of madness, ...

The professor husband of a friend of mine has likened children to the insane. I often think of it. He says that children live on the edge of madness, ...

The professor husband of a friend of mine has likened children to the insane. I often think of it. He says that children live on the edge of madness, ...

The professor husband of a friend of mine has likened children to the insane. I often think of it. He says that children live on the edge of madness, ...