Quote for These Times #1

[not to be confused with its sister ongoing feature, Quote from a Fictional Character]

"How happy we were, and how little we realized how nice it was to be lazy and happy, without fear and anxiety and horror knocking at the back of one's brain like a little gnome with a hammer."

--- Henrietta,

Henrietta's War, Joyce Dennys, 1939

(Rec. #344)