Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children.
You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.
I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.
