Corn Flakes For Dinner Quotes

“Compared to other people’s kids, they were small victories, but for us, they felt like a stadium-roar.”
― Aidan Comerford, Corn Flakes For Dinner: A Heartbreaking Comedy About Family Life

“Walking out of the hospital doors that day was like stepping out onto a new planet.”
― Aidan Comerford, Corn Flakes For Dinner: A Heartbreaking Comedy About Family Life

“Take a couple of days off work at the end of next week; make a long weekend out of it. Get lost for a while,’ she said, kindly. Martha had just created our golden rule of parenting children on the autistic spectrum: we can’t both be crazy at once.”
― Aidan Comerford, Corn Flakes For Dinner: A Heartbreaking Comedy About Family Life

“Were the housing estates of boom-time Ireland lousy with Lexapro? In the quiet of a weekday morning, was there an underground sea of silent desperation? ‘Motherhood is the making of you,’ is how you are supposed to feel, but what if it turns out to be the breaking of you? How many women go without help, ashamed to say it? How many mothers stick a pill on their tongues every morning and hope for the best, like Martha?”
― Aidan Comerford, Corn Flakes For Dinner: A Heartbreaking Comedy About Family Life