A Boy Made of Blocks Quotes

“Life is an adventure, not a walk. That's why it's difficult.”
― Keith Stuart, A Boy Made of Blocks

“Grief never really goes away. Time doesn’t heal. Not fully. After a while - a few months, a few years maybe – grief retreats into the darkest corners of your mind, but it will lurk there indefinitely. It will leak into everything else you do or feel; it will lurch forward when you don’t expect it. It will haunt you when you sleep.

Time doesn’t heal, it cauterises.”
― Keith Stuart, A Boy Made of Blocks

“It's weird how a whole life can be distilled into a series of moments, and how, without thinking, we order those moments into a story that makes sense and seems to mean something. We are endless editors of our own histories. But sometimes we get it wrong”
― Keith Stuart, A Boy Made of Blocks

“... How tentative and fragile happiness is. It's so easy to miss. Sometimes it passes without you seeing it. But sometimes, if you're incredibly lucky and patient, it will come around again.”
― Keith Stuart, A Boy Made of Blocks

“Autism, as far as I understand it, is about not being given the rule book at birth.”
― Keith Stuart, A Boy Made of Blocks

“Life is built on the little things.”
― Keith Stuart, A Boy Made of Blocks

“When you start out as a parent, you have these big ambitions for your child: success, popularity, brilliance. But as life goes on, sometimes that scales back to something much more profound. Happiness.”
― Keith Stuart, A Boy Made of Blocks

“Life is an adventure, not a walk. That's why it's difficult - because life is extraordinary and it means something, and those things are costly. You have to be patient and prepared and strong.”
― Keith Stuart, A Boy Made of Blocks

“Sometimes, there’s no escape,” I say. “Sometimes you have to bear the pressure and hope for a miracle.”
― Keith Stuart, A Boy Made of Blocks

“we’ve got to stop being passengers in this life. We’ve got to – I don’t know – we’ve got to drag the driver out, punch him in the face and steal the car.”
― Keith Stuart, A Boy Made of Blocks

“But sometimes, you can’t get enough distance however hard you try. All the things you care about in your life, even the things that hurt, they have a gravitational pull. If you do manage to break free, it’s over. You’re floating in space. You’ll never get back.”
― Keith Stuart, A Boy Made of Blocks

“There’s that old saying: No one’s last words have ever been, ‘I wish I’d spent more time at work’. I’m feeling”
― Keith Stuart, A Boy Made of Blocks

“There was always something in the way, some darkness that i had to hold back. But the darkness always comes, whatever you do. Eventually, you have to turn around and face it.”
― Keith Stuart, A Boy Made of Blocks

“Nothing is safe - that is something useful I have learned. It's a lesson every parent wants to hold off for as long as possible. But if you leave it too long, life has a way of illustrating it anyway.”
― Keith Stuart, A Boy Made of Blocks

“It's funny how misery takes you straight back, connecting the dots through your life - the memories tumble out like sad photographs from a battered old album.”
― Keith Stuart, A Boy Made of Blocks

“When you lose someone, the grief comes back at you like a flash flood, tearing through all your carefully constructed defences. You have to do what you can; you use whatever is available to get through.”
― Keith Stuart, A Boy Made of Blocks

“Maybe being a good parent is about improvisation and spontaneity. Maybe it's about genuinely being with your kid. Sometimes though, it is also about being able to catch sick in yours hands.”
― Keith Stuart, A Boy Made of Blocks

“Сега, когато съм далеч от Сам, дори само от няколко часа, чувството е много странно - няма го напрежението, но на негово място вече нахлува тъга. Природата не търпи емоционален вакуум.”
― Keith Stuart, A Boy Made of Blocks

“Maybe being a good parent is about improvisation and spontaneity; maybe it’s about genuinely being with your kid.”
― Keith Stuart, A Boy Made of Blocks

“And the moment is so perfect, I feel like the stars will fall upon us.”
― Keith Stuart, A Boy Made of Blocks

“Tidy homes are all alike, but every messy home is messy in its own way.”
― Keith Stuart, A Boy Made of Blocks

“Любая уверенность в будущем - иллюзия.”
― Кит Стюарт, A Boy Made of Blocks

“Grief never really goes away. Time doesn’t heal. Not fully. After a while - a few months, a few years maybe – grief retreats into the darkest corners of your mind, but it will lurk there indefinitely. It will leak into everything else you do or feel; it will lurch forward when you don’t expect it. It will haunt you when you sleep.
Time doesn’t heal, it cauterises.”
― Keith Stuart, A Boy Made of Blocks

“she’s always been able to explain the world to Sam, to convert his experiences into the language he uses and understands. This is something I keep forgetting – that in a lot of ways he’s a tourist in our world, a baffled traveller with no idea about local quirks or customs. She’s his Google Translate. While I stall and flinch and retreat, Jody takes his hand and guides him.”
― Keith Stuart, A Boy Made of Blocks

“- Това е едно кафе.
- Какво кафе?
- Едно кафе, в което тате отишъл веднъж. Били двамата с брат му. И си прекарали много добре.
- Кафето в Лондон ли е?
- Да. Но после... няколко дни след това, братът на тате умрял. Тате има снимка на кафето и винаги я носи със себе си. Ще ви я покаже, ако искате.
- Затова ли кафето е толкова важно?
- Да, защото тате винаги си го спомня. То го натъжава и в същото време го прави щастлив. Някои сгради са важни, защото са големи, но други са важни, защото пазят спомени в себе си. Мисля, че това е мястото, където живее братът на тате.”
― Keith Stuart, A Boy Made of Blocks

“When you lose someone, the grief comes back at you like a flash flood, tearing through all your carefully constructed defences.”
― Keith Stuart, A Boy Made of Blocks

“I don’t care if you’re in Brazil or Vietnam or Thailand or the Isle of Man … I’ll be thinking about you. I can’t help it. I always have, I always will.”
― Keith Stuart, A Boy Made of Blocks

“Life is an adventure, not a walk. That’s why it’s difficult.”
― Keith Stuart, A Boy Made of Blocks

“Because the city wasn’t background noise to him, he couldn’t just tune it out – the world was an endless assault on his senses. He desperately needed to make sense of it.”
― Keith Stuart, A Boy Made of Blocks

“It’s amazing how little control we have over our own lives, when you think about it. In theory, I could keep driving, back into the city, then up the M32, the M5, the M6. I could be in Scotland by the evening. But obviously that won’t happen. Family, responsibilities, fear, the awful reality of service station food. The easiest thing is to accept your role as a passenger, staring out of the window at the rolling scenery. The years pass like traffic.”
― Keith Stuart, A Boy Made of Blocks