An Invisible Thread Quotes

“You see," Maurice said to me, beaming, "I told you I'd get a big table someday.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“I had to accept he might be out of my life for good-that our strange little friendship was over just as it was beginning.
Yet I believed then and I believe now that there is something in the universe that brings people who need each other together.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“All I can say is, in my heart, I believe it was the only thing I could have done in that situation.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“Michelle liked that Maurice was quiet and reserved—that he didn’t need to be seen and heard like all the other noisy boys she knew.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“But I have to admit, if I am being honest, that the baggage I brought to our relationship played at least some part in causing it to end.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“For me, having a family was not just a desire, it was the thing that was going to save me. It was my only answer to the unsolvable puzzle of my father’s cruelty—my only chance to be happy in a way I had never experienced as a child.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“Kids like me—we know everything that’s going on out there. We see it on TV. But we’re always on the outside looking in. We know about stuff like Christmas, but kids like me, we know we can never have it for ourselves, so we don’t think about it.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“Children like Maurice are always disappointed in life. Every day someone else lets them down. I hope you realize you can’t just come in and out of his life. If you are going to be there for him, you have to really be there for him.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“Rituals are what ground us in our lives, what give us a sense of safety and continuity.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“But it was my father’s absences—those hours after he left and before he made it home again—that most defined my childhood and that still most define the person I’ve become.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“There was nothing Maurice wanted to be, because there was no reason to believe he could be anything except what he was—a scrounger, a beggar, a street kid.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“I could not have known that the incident she relayed to me would, in my mind, come to define Laura and the kind of person she is.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“and that’s when I asked her to tell me what mattered to her in life.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“him how to live on the streets. The”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“language his parents understood best was a discourse of violent action, not words. Morris, in particular, was a heavy drug user and an alcoholic, and coke, dope, and Wild Irish Rose easily triggered his rages. When he came home at all, it was to rail at his family with”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread