Shirley Jackson, Life Among the Savages
"I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow have passed magically away and the next time you look it will be bedtime."
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"I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow have passed magically away and the next time you look it will be bedtime."
"نظرت إلى الساعة، يحدوني ذلك الأمل الخافت اللاواعي الذي تشترك فيه كل الأمهات، بأن الوقت قد مضى بطريقة سحرية، وأن المرة القادمة التي أنظر فيها ستكون قد حانت ساعة النوم."
Shirley Jackson, Life Among the Savages
"Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic assumption about how it is possible to teach things to children..."
Shirley Jackson, Life Among the Savages
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