Things Nobody Knows But Me Quotes

“She was a victim of her own brain chemistry, and as her daughter my role was to accept and love her for who she was, not who I wanted her to to be.”
― Amra Pajalic, Things Nobody Knows But Me

“Our mother was different, but that’s what we liked about her. While other children had strict routines and consequences, we had freedom and frivolity— and we didn’t want the party to end.”
― Amra Pajalic, Things Nobody Knows But Me

“While I’d had many upheavals during my young life, the one constant and been my mother. Now that she was in another country and completely lost to me, I realised how much she was a part of me. Missing her was like a physical ache that I could not assuage.”
― Amra Pajalic, Things Nobody Knows But Me

“I collected stories and stored them in my memory like prayer beads that I grasped onto and revisited, smoothing out the edges over the years until the stories were formed into a prayer necklace, a continuous loop with no beginning or end, until the day I wrote them down.”
― Amra Pajalic, Things Nobody Knows But Me

“I had accepted her words and believed that we were blessed because God could hear us, and had started praying for him to grant me the ability to fly. But now as I watched Zlatan and Aida exchange confused glances, I realised that perhaps my mother was wrong and I would never get my wings.”
― Amra Pajalic, Things Nobody Knows But Me

“My brother and I only had each other and it was our job to protect Mum from well-meaning adults who saw her as an adult-child incapable of performing her parental responsibilities.”
― Amra Pajalic, Things Nobody Knows But Me

“Having the correct label meant understanding Mum had no control when she was under the influence of her illness. Until then I had judged her and found her wanting: as a mother, a wife, a human being.”
― Amra Pajalic, Things Nobody Knows But Me