The Secret Daughter Quotes

“I could snap myself out of the darkest moments only by reminding myself that things would get better”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Secret Daughter

“Sometimes you have to let go of one dream to pick up another one.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Secret Daughter

“It is a strange thing to know yourself, and to realise at the same time that you are merely the product of the nest within which you are raised – and that a different nest might easily have produced a different you.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Secret Daughter

“I resolved then and there to become a woman and a mother who hugged. There was something so generous about the gesture.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Secret Daughter

“She’s tattooed herself onto my spirit.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Secret Daughter

“We can’t change anything that happened, but we can mine the good out of how it all panned out and build a better future from it. For”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Secret Daughter

“Our life had become a fragile chaos;”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Secret Daughter

“I wanted to be a person who brought history to the next generation, because if we don’t learn about our history, how can we learn from it? And we have to learn from it,”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Secret Daughter

“It's by bringing the ghosts to light that we lay them to rest.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Secret Daughter

“You can trap a person quite easily if you convince them they're unworthy of escape.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Secret Daughter

“Pregnancy makes me feel strong, like a superhero, but the truth is, even the strongest of us is weak against the system.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Secret Daughter

“Brute force. Forced adoption. Fraud. The language of this new world was so violent.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Secret Daughter

“We come from a line of women who could make something out of nothing. That’s worth remembering, isn’t it?”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Secret Daughter

“We come from a line of women who could make something out of nothing. That’s worth remembering,”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Secret Daughter

“From the fear had grown courage, and from the courage had grown confidence,”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Secret Daughter

“I want answers and it should never have”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Secret Daughter

“For all of his flaws, I could not deny the lifetime of love and devotion he’d given to me.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Secret Daughter

“I could see that the lines on her face were not just from a lifetime of sadness, but a lifetime of really experiencing life.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Secret Daughter

“She was a woman on her way towards peace.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Secret Daughter

“Sometimes, darkness would settle over me and I would pace the hallway with her in my arms, thinking things that were too dark to even acknowledge.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Secret Daughter

“my first taste of motherhood, and it was not what I thought it would be. I expected it to be joyous and transformative. I did not anticipate endless, monotonous days which blurred until life was both unenjoyable and unrecognisable.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Secret Daughter

“What kind of monster did that make me? It was my darkest moment, wedged tightly in a period of so many dark moments that I’d look back on it for years and wonder how we both survived.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Secret Daughter

“I had no idea what sleep deprivation could do to a person’s state of mind,”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Secret Daughter

“He told me that he was in this for life, baby or no baby. And that was that.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Secret Daughter

“When I let myself feel shame or guilt or regret, I feel powerless.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Secret Daughter

“Life isn’t fair,’ she whispered. ‘But that doesn’t mean it has to be cruel.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Secret Daughter

“We come from a line of women who could make something out of nothing.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Secret Daughter

“Amazing and damaged, just like the rest of us in that support group. But at least we’re not broken,”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Secret Daughter

“One of the remarkable things about my wife is that she never shies away from her past, no matter how ugly it is. She has this theory that you only kill the demons by bringing them to light.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Secret Daughter

“You learn to adjust to a new reality where you’re no longer your own first priority . . .”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Secret Daughter