# Quote — Edmund Cooper, The Uncertain Midnight

> But it may be that there is happiness in the very things we rejected - in work and responsibility. In the rearing of children and in the challenge of permanent love.

- Author: [Edmund Cooper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-cooper.md)
- Book: [The Uncertain Midnight](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-cooper/the-uncertain-midnight.md)
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