# Quote — Eudora Welty, The Optimist's Daughter

> Laurel could not see her face but only the back of her neck, the most vulnerable part of anybody, and she thought: Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?

- Author: [Eudora Welty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eudora-welty.md)
- Book: [The Optimist's Daughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eudora-welty/the-optimists-daughter.md)
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