Too Much Quotes

“He is right here in the vegetable patch, in the time I make to spend with my new families, in the things he said to me, repeating in my head - you can never have too much love.
I had run away but here in the garden he’d found me and found me no longer a boy but now a grown-up man, myself.”
― Tom Allen, Too Much: the hilarious, heartfelt memoir

“The things I did say, and more painfully the things I was unable to say, play over and over again on the movie projector in my head, tinged at times with terrible regret.
These arguments and discords can never be undone now. They were our relationship, our family, our time together despite their faults. But still perfect in their own way. Like a social media page in my mind, these moments will always be there, frozen in time. Imperfect. Perfect, actually.”
― Tom Allen, Too Much: the hilarious, heartfelt memoir

“Losing a parent is the moment when you truly become an adult. There are other markers of course, turning 18, living away from home, learning how to drive. But none feel as profound as the moment you realise you no longer have the grown-up protection you had when you were a child.”
― Tom Allen, Too Much: the hilarious, heartfelt memoir