The Boy Between Quotes

“Elhers Danlos Syndrome. I had never heard of it and didn’t know whether to be delighted to finally know what we were dealing with or devastated to read about the condition. It is essentially a connective tissue disorder characterised by joint hypermobility and there is no cure, but his symptoms can be managed. It can be hereditary or can appear for the first time.”
― Josiah Hartley, The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey

“still absolutely hate opening emails and mail. I can’t explain why, but I feel that whatever is waiting for me inside any message can only be bad and it is therefore best to avoid them at all costs.”
― Josiah Hartley, The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey

“Because sometimes the bravest thing you can do for someone is set everything else aside, including your judgement – and just listen.”
― Josiah Hartley, The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey

“Ta frustracja - poczucie, że chcę biec, lecz pozostaję przykuty do miejsca - faktycznie stale mi towarzyszy.”
― Josiah Hartley, The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey

“Because sometimes the bravest thing you can do for someone is set everything else aside, including your judgement – and just listen.’1”
― Josiah Hartley, The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey

“One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.”
― Josiah Hartley, The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey

“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as”
― Josiah Hartley, The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey

“Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.”
― Josiah Hartley, The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey

“And while others express such joy at simply ‘being’ I stare at them and wonder if it’s just me who finds the whole process of living so very exhausting.”
― Josiah Hartley, The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey

“The truth is there isn’t much that life can throw at you that is harder than watching your child suffer.”
― Josiah Hartley, The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey

“On that day when he was brand new, I wished for him many things but never, ever in a million years did I imagine that the thing I would pray for more than any other was that my beautiful boy didn’t kill himself.”
― Josiah Hartley, The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey

“also understand a little more about the battle he fights every single day. No wonder he is so tired.”
― Josiah Hartley, The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey

“My dedication is for all those who are living with depression. For all those who are thinking or have thought that suicide might be the best option. I am proof that there is a life to be lived after depression and a life to be lived with depression – though it might not always feel like it. Don’t give up. Talk it through, write it down, run, dance, read, paint, sleep, play sport, do yoga, sit in a chair, walk in a park! Do whatever you need to and wait it out until the demon is off your back and the darkness passes. Take a breath. Take a moment. As I say in the book, things can and often do get better. Don’t delete yourself.”
― Josiah Hartley, The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey

“the floors covered in toys, and meals often eaten in a tent”
― Josiah Hartley, The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey

“My brilliant boy had figured out at this tender age something that it took me decades to grasp: that happiness is the goal.”
― Josiah Hartley, The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey

“People who need help sometimes look a lot like people who do not need help.”
― Josiah Hartley, The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey

“Time is a funny thing. It certainly moves faster the older you get and sometimes I sit and look in the mirror with more years behind me than ahead and it feels like only a year or so ago that I gave birth to Josh.”
― Josiah Hartley, The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey

“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.”
― Josiah Hartley, The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey

“I had no idea how this new human would hijack my every waking thought and how every decision I would ever make would have him at the heart of it,”
― Josiah Hartley, The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey

“Existence is exhausting, you experience and process one moment in time and immediately there’s another one to be processed. It’s an endless, daunting, relentless cycle going on forever till we die. I think the closest we can ever get to Nirvana is that infinite nothingness of before we were rudely ripped into consciousness.”
― Josiah Hartley, The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.’ F. Scott Fitzgerald”
― Josiah Hartley, The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey

“There aren’t many worse feelings than being lonely in a crowded room. We have never lived in a more connected world, yet loneliness is only increasing. We as a society must look at the value of these connections; a thousand Instagram followers aren’t worth as much as one person who you can communicate honestly and openly with, at least in my opinion.”
― Josiah Hartley, The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.’ Washington Irving”
― Josiah Hartley, The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey

“Depression and Christmas’ advice from The Priory: ‘Society drums into us the idea that Christmas is a time of joy, laughter, cheerfulness and partying. However, for people who struggle with depression, the constant reminder that you should be happy can make you feel even worse.’13”
― Josiah Hartley, The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey