A Terrible Kindness Quotes

“You’re like all of us. Sometimes we’re the best we can be, sometimes the worst. It’s called being human.”
― Jo Browning Wroe, A Terrible Kindness

“If all the world was ours to give We would give it yes and more To see the one we loved so much Come smiling through the door.”
― Jo Browning Wroe, A Terrible Kindness

“What a terrible mess we can make of our lives. There should be angel police to stop us at these dangerous moments, but there don’t seem to be. So all we’re left with, my precious son, is whether we can forgive, be forgiven, and keep trying our best.”
― Jo Browning Wroe, A Terrible Kindness

“Because in this life, we need all the people who love us that we can get, don’t you think?”
― Jo Browning Wroe, A Terrible Kindness

“At any moment, a memory could crack open the surface and he’ll be swallowed whole.”
― Jo Browning Wroe, A Terrible Kindness

“What a terrible mess we can make of our lives. There should be angel police to stop us at these dangerous moments, but there doesn’t seem to be. So all we’re left with, my precious son, is whether we can forgive, be forgiven, and keep trying our best.”
― Jo Browning Wroe, A Terrible Kindness

“When we go through impossible things, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them.”
― Jo Browning Wroe, A Terrible Kindness

“it’s OK to be critical of someone you love.’ She rubs with her thumb, blending the colour. ‘It doesn’t mean you love them less, or that everything about them’s wrong.”
― Jo Browning Wroe, A Terrible Kindness

“What boundless capacity for pain, William thinks, is expected of such tiny, frail humans.”
― Jo Browning Wroe, A Terrible Kindness

“If only his ability to conjure his mother's voice was dependable. Tonight he can magic no comfort from her at all”
― Jo Browning Wroe, A Terrible Kindness

“Time to clamp his defenses back down before the flotsam and jetsam of his own life is washed up by the tidal wave of Aberfan’s grief.”
― Jo Browning Wroe, A Terrible Kindness

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― Jo Browning Wroe, A Terrible Kindness

“What a terrible mess we can make of our lives. There should be angel police to stop us at these dangerous moments, but there don't seem to be. So all we're left with, is whether we can forgive, be forgiven, and keep trying our best.”
― Jo Browning Wroe, A Terrible Kindness

“What if he’d chosen differently? What if all that had happened could have made him a bigger person? If each disaster had been a crossroads at which he could have taken a better path?”
― Jo Browning Wroe, A Terrible Kindness

“Do you think anyone deserves being loved, really deserves it?”
― Jo Browning Wroe, A Terrible Kindness

“I’m damned if I’m going to look for songs that aren’t about love and life and loss and pain and joy. This is being human.”
― Jo Browning Wroe, A Terrible Kindness

“Time to clamp his defences back down before the flotsam and jetsam of his own life is washed up by the tidal wave of Aberfan’s grief;”
― Jo Browning Wroe, A Terrible Kindness