The Silent Mother Quotes

“You have an emptiness inside that can never be filled. You will never feel the joy of loving someone deeply. You will never feel your lips ache from smiling. Nor feel your eyes sting from crying, your bones ache from grieving. You will never feel closeness. You will never feel the lightness in your feet as you run to greet someone you love. What you feel is only the dregs. The worthless parts. You probably think all your vengeful actions, the harming and hating, is a great big feeling. But what you're feeling is a whole big nothingness. And you will feel it for the rest of your life”
― Liz Lawler, The Silent Mother

“She climbed into her car and considered the matter some more. She shouldn't look too far ahead, or look for sadness before it arrived. Otherwise, what was the point of living? Of experiencing anything? In any case, you couldn't stop hurt. If it was meant to happen, it would happen. No point waiting for it to arrive”
― Liz Lawler, The Silent Mother

“Ruth was silent, needing a moment to herself. This young woman had just explained something so  simple - you didn't need proof of something if you had no doubts in your heart. Nothing had given her reason to doubt him - she had kept faith while Ruth had floundered”
― Liz Lawler, The Silent Mother

“What rubbish it was to say words can never hurt you. Words could tear your heart apart. People used them every day to destroy one another”
― Liz Lawler, The Silent Mother

“Today is why I became a doctor. For patients like Molly. She puts everything into perspective. She's a professor of English and is 39 and is dying. She told me, you don't need a long life to have lived. You just need to have lived all your yesterdays”
― Liz Lawler, The Silent Mother

“A feeling, felt only once before in another lifetime, pressed hard against her ribcage, She needed to avoid hearing this man's words and block out what he was about to say. She felt the touch of his hand against hers and wanted to snatch it away. How had he got this close without her realising? She had to restrain herself from clamping her hand over his mouth. She was only seconds away from hearing something that would change her life forever”
― Liz Lawler, The Silent Mother