Homeschooled Quotes

“This school seems to be a kind of factory for the processing of our young brains.”
― Stefan Merrill Block, Homeschooled: A Memoir

“she knows she must do what she can to hold on to it, this narrow second of perfection.”
― Stefan Merrill Block, Homeschooled: A Memoir

“There is no greater question in her life than how best to keep her children occupied and happy, and learning when they can. The completeness of their need for her is all she ever really needs.”
― Stefan Merrill Block, Homeschooled: A Memoir

“One day,” Mom says, “you’ll learn that a mother isn’t really a separate person. It’s like Mum holds half of my brain, my own memories.”
― Stefan Merrill Block, Homeschooled: A Memoir

“But often loneliness just annihilates itself, with a gun, pills, a blade, a needle.”
― Stefan Merrill Block, Homeschooled: A Memoir

“Even those lonely children who survive will continue to exhibit heightened paranoia, fear of others, their isolation deepening their isolation.”
― Stefan Merrill Block, Homeschooled: A Memoir

“Loneliness can be as deadly as thirst or hunger.”
― Stefan Merrill Block, Homeschooled: A Memoir

“It’s a parent’s curse, you know? Every mother in the world wishes her kid wouldn’t grow up so fast.”
― Stefan Merrill Block, Homeschooled: A Memoir

“Everyone else’s story has other people. Without other people, what story, what kind of book-worthy life, can I ever hope for?”
― Stefan Merrill Block, Homeschooled: A Memoir

“And even if, today, we will make our way to clear waters, we’ll never really get clear of that haunting, not in the long run, not with both our lives.”
― Stefan Merrill Block, Homeschooled: A Memoir

“One day,” Mom says, “you’ll learn that a mother isn’t really a separate person. It’s like Mum holds half of my brain, my own memories. It’s like a part of me is disappearing too.”
― Stefan Merrill Block, Homeschooled: A Memoir

“Sometimes the hot weight of Stella in my hands gives me a terrible empathy for Mom”
― Stefan Merrill Block, Homeschooled: A Memoir

“Shep glances around”
― Stefan Merrill Block, Homeschooled: A Memoir

“It’s like there’s a bonfire all built in place in front of me now”
― Stefan Merrill Block, Homeschooled: A Memoir

“A perfect solution. Plus I can rescue the creative streak of the next Charles Dickens here before that school quashes it completely.”
― Stefan Merrill Block, Homeschooled: A Memoir

“It won't be until much later, years from now, that I'll seek out other former homeschoolers, and realize how common, how deep this fear can run: to confront your homeschool teacher or to hurt them in ways they might never forgive is to risk losing not only a parents but also your entire childhood social sphere, the worldview in which you were raised. It is potentiallly an act of self-exile from a home country to which you can never again return, and maybe this fear is one reason why there still aren't proper regulations on homeschooling, why homeschool kids can still so easily vanish from the world. With the odds stacked so heavily against speaking out - and homeschooling still a relatively new phenomenon - so many of the necessary stories have not yet been told.”
― Stefan Merrill Block, Homeschooled: A Memoir

“One day,” Mom says”
― Stefan Merrill Block, Homeschooled: A Memoir