"... he had asked a question about the Bible: how Adam was created from the dust of the ground. I was six or seven. And she was about to give me proof..."

"But you're just six years old..."

"There’s some things no six-year-old boy in the world should have to be told..."

"It was time that he should begin to learn..."

"He was a boy of perhaps six years, sturdy and fair, his clothes torn, his face covered with a sticky mess of fruit..."

"...he belonged, even at age of six, to that great clan which cannot keep this feeling separate from that, but must let future prospects, with their joys and sorrows, cloud what is actually at hand..."