No One Listened Quotes

“She stepped into Mum’s shoes on the 11th of January 2002 and has looked after me ever since. Life would have been very different for me if I hadn’t had her.”
― Isobel Kerr, No One Listened

“In my experience if you ever rely on someone else you end up being let down.”
― Isobel Kerr, No One Listened

“There were so many thoughts swirling around my head after I got the test results that I couldn’t react straight away. The geneticist seemed more worried about the fact that I hadn’t cried than she would have been if I had completely broken down. Why did everyone always want to see me bursting into tears about everything?”
― Isobel Kerr, No One Listened

“had the disease, just like Mum and just like my grandmother before her. Suddenly my options for the future were radically altered. To start with I knew I wouldn’t ever want to have children now, because there was a fifty-fifty chance I would pass the disease on to them and continue it down the line after that, plus there was the fact that I might not be around to see them grow up and might end up being a burden to them. On the positive side, at least I didn’t have to”
― Isobel Kerr, No One Listened

“Alex and I didn’t have any spare money that year at Cheltenham, so we each bought the other a CD, which meant opening our presents took about twenty seconds. The staff had cooked us a Christmas lunch, but none of them ate it with us because they were saving themselves for their own family meals once they got home.”
― Isobel Kerr, No One Listened

“When Christmas came a month after we arrived at the Cheltenham, we sort of assumed that Helen and Steve would invite us to their house for the holiday. We had often spent Christmas with them before we went into foster care, when Mum was still alive, and we knew they had been told that we were no longer at Cathy and Pete’s, but no invitation was forthcoming. One of Mum’s cousins, who we had only ever met two or three times, kindly offered to have us for a few days, but he explained that there would be a lot of family members there who we wouldn’t know. When”
― Isobel Kerr, No One Listened

“Sometimes the other kids caused such a racket that we couldn’t sleep at night. Basically it seemed to us they were getting away with misbehaving, while Alex and I never got any reward for keeping quiet and going to school each day. Although they were very nice to us in the home no one from social services ever asked if we needed anything or if there was anything they could do for us because we just got on with life and didn’t make a fuss.”
― Isobel Kerr, No One Listened