Alison Stockham > Quotes

“People needed people. People needed to be seen and they needed to be heard.”
― Alison Stockham, The Silent Friend

“People don’t know what to do, so they just do nothing. Embarrassment, grief. It’s all the same. They don’t know what to do with their discomfort so they avoid it.”
― Alison Stockham, The Silent Friend

“Day after day, she was coming up short and letting them down. They were saddled with a tired, sad, impatient mother who failed to sit and enjoy them without half an eye on something else.”
― Alison Stockham, The Cuckoo Sister

“But it doesn’t work like that”
― Alison Stockham, The Man She Married

“had always felt as though she was an imposter in her own home. A temporary tenant getting in the way of her parents’ lives. They did not neglect her in the sense that she had enough food, clean clothes, her shoes always replaced as soon as they started to pinch. She had brushed hair and brushed teeth; dental check-ups and birthday presents. But it always felt like they lived their lives in a virtual departure lounge, killing time until Louise was old enough to board the plane and take off, leaving”
― Alison Stockham, The Silent Friend

“tablets. A”
― Alison Stockham, The Cuckoo Sister