The Secret Child Quotes

“And then I left the room.
Very late in life, I was starting to learn that walking away instead of engaging in increasingly angry debates was the key to greater happiness and lower blood pressure.”
― Kerry Fisher, The Secret Child

“Recently I’d begun to appreciate the advantages of being single.
-Grace”
― Kerry Fisher, The Secret Child

“There were more good people in the world than bad and the best one of them all was standing right in front of me.”
― Kerry Fisher, The Secret Child

“How many people in the world missed great chunks of time with people they loved, time they could never get back, through a comment taken the wrong way or a misplaced reaction, which pride or fear of rejection exacerbated, spreading like ivy, covering all the paths back, all the avenues of apology, until the only way forward was alone?”
― Kerry Fisher, The Secret Child

“How many events of my childhood, of my adulthood, would now change shape, stretching into a different truth entirely, the razor-sharp edges of bitterness rounding out into something softer and more forgiving? If there was a word in English to sum up the concept of understanding a difficult family member now you knew their secrets and wishing you’d been a bit kinder, today was a day when it would have come in handy.”
― Kerry Fisher, The Secret Child

“I felt sick with guilt. The pain of giving one child away and the one who followed rarely missing the opportunity to say, ‘I wish you weren’t my mother.’ How I must have hurt her."
-Grace, The Secret Child”
― Kerry Fisher, The Secret Child

“Make the most of it. Enjoy them thinking you are wonderful and never wanting to spend a single moment away from you.”
― Kerry Fisher, The Secret Child

“plucking up the courage and sitting down”
― Kerry Fisher, The Secret Child

“Perhaps Google would be my friend this time"
-Grace”
― Kerry Fisher, The Secret Child

“Or suffering another lecture from Louise about how I’d been ‘far too soft with Grace’, followed by advice from her teacher friends who, like Louise, were in their mid-twenties, didn’t have kids and thought being a parent was a breeze. A breeze whistling through a blossom tree, if you just ‘set some boundaries and some consequences’.”
― Kerry Fisher, The Secret Child