Asking Too Much Quotes

“.It is asking a great deal of a man, who has learnt to regulate his everyday affairs in accordance with the rules of experience and with due regard to reality, that he should entrust precisely what affects him most nearly to the care of an authority which claims as its prerogative freedom from all the rules of rational thought.”
― Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

“Mallory’s brothers and sister were very much like their parents. Only Mallory seemed to need extra hugs and support. At the same time she knew she’d never get that from her parents or siblings. She’d have to go beyond them for that kind of attention. She wasn’t needy; she was just on another end of the normal range from them. She had learned to hold back from asking for what she needed, afraid it was too much.”
― Meredith Marple, The Year Mrs. Cooper Got Out More: A Great Wharf Novel

“Clara, you ask too much. You are always asking for too much, even when you’re not asking for anything.”
― Penni Russon, Only Ever Always