Sarah Hall Quotes

All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal disenchantments.

Sarah Hall

• Children
• Innocent
• Grows
• Suspicion
• Disenchantment

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• All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal disenchantments.

  

  Sarah Hall
  • Children
  • Innocent
  • Grows