One and Only Quotes

“We onlies, we fear the nothing. We fear the winds that howl around the last one standing. We fear the black silence of carrying those ever-fading histories alone.”
― Lauren Sandler, One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One

“It seems the more of a parent you are, the less you are of anything else.”
― Lauren Sandler, One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One

“I've lived the life I wanted in my thirties, my forties, my fifties - they're all different lives, with different desires, which you never realize when you're young.”
― Lauren Sandler, One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One

“in a way though it is easier to give in to a decision to have a second than to stand firm in one’s wish to only have one child.”
― Lauren Sandler, One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One