Curdie Quote

“I was doing the wrong of never wanting or trying to be better. And now I see that I have been letting things go as they would for a long time. Whatever came into my head I did, and whatever didn’t come into my heard I didn’t do. I never sent anything away, and never looked out for anything to come.

“I haven’t been attending to my mother – or my father either. And now I think of it, I know I have often seen them looking troubled, and I have never asked them what was the matter. And now I see too that I did not ask because I suspected it had something to do with me and my behavior, and didn’t want to hear the truth. And I know I have been grumbling at my work, and doing a hundred other things that are wrong.”

–Curdie in ‘The Princess and Curdie’ by George MacDonald