Despite It All Quotes

“I never sit on the sofa in the middle of the room. Always on the chair in the bay window. That way, she can’t smash me around the back of my head. Can’t bury me in the back garden.”
― Madison Alexander Day, Despite It All: A Munchausen by Proxy Childhood, and Beyond

“Spring had missed its cue. Snow still clings to the Derbyshire dales, and the sun hangs low, timid in the sky. Bluebells and snowdrops lie in wait, desperate for a climate in which they can thrive for a while. I suppose I wait like them too. Hardy to the core, but mindful that in the wrong environment, I can perish in an instant”
― Madison Alexander Day, Despite It All: A Munchausen by Proxy Childhood, and Beyond