Little Boy Lost Quotes

“To have the capacity for happiness was, presumably, to be able to envisage a future in which happiness could have its place.”
― Marghanita Laski, Little Boy Lost

“Queer,’ said Hilary, and then, 'But at least the Occupation showed each man what he was capable of. Don't you think it was something to be able to find that out?'

'No, why?' said Pierre. 'Some found they were better than they thought, some worse. We are finding that out all the time in our everyday lives.”
― Marghanita Laski, Little Boy Lost

“One can never be sure of the end, only of the means, and so we must be sure that the means are good.”
― Marghanita Laski, Little Boy Lost

“Ordeals never turn out the way you expect them. Usually when the ones you are expecting finally arrive there is no question of decision at all, and the ordeals of decision turn up on quite other occasions.”
― Marghanita Laski, Little Boy Lost