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Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster.

L.P. Hartley
Oysters, Realizing, Speak
L. P. Hartley (2015). “The Go-between”, p.104, Penguin UK
Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster.