Surrogate Quotes

“It was creased and battle-scarred, this body, but uniquely hers. To disguise it would be to deny who she was, what she’d been through and all she’d achieved.”
― Susan Spindler, Surrogate

“I wasn’t joking: this whole business is serious and complicated. Contraception, abortion, infertility – they’re central to the physical and ethical experience of being female, but we never join up the dots and talk about them honestly.”
― Susan Spindler, Surrogate

“Suddenly all our cupboards are full of skeletons and secrets, and I haven’t a clue who, or what, to believe.”
― Susan Spindler, Surrogate

“The truth was, the same woman at different times in the fertile phase of her life could greet her own menstrual blood with joy and relief, or dread its arrival as the harbinger of defeat and childlessness”
― Susan Spindler, Surrogate

“Marriage is tough, Lauren. There were things your mum and I didn’t talk about enough and, in the end, they broke us.”
― Susan Spindler, Surrogate

“You take your parents for granted, then something happens and you realise you’ve only got them on loan.”
― Susan Spindler, Surrogate

“a normal mum, who didn’t care what he did as long as he was happy. She was the glue that held their family together,”
― Susan Spindler, Surrogate

“Then, quite suddenly, it was all over, and you couldn’t get it back: the chaos and shouting, the throb of life, were replaced by silence”
― Susan Spindler, Surrogate