Joan Ryan > Quotes

“Motherhood is about raising and celebrating the child you have, not the child you thought you would have. It's about understanding that he is exactly the person he is supposed to be. And that, if you're lucky, he just might be the teacher who turns you into the person you are supposed to be.”
― Joan Ryan, The Water Giver: The Story of a Mother, a Son, and Their Second Chance

“We are such idiots, We think everyone else has it all figured out. But we're all stumbling around in dark rooms bumping into furniture and stifling our cries so no one will know.”
― Joan Ryan

“Couples have a higher facial similarity after twenty-five years of marriage,” he wrote. “The higher the quality of the marriage, the higher the facial similarity. The spouses become a second self.”
― Joan Ryan, Intangibles: Unlocking the Science and Soul of Team Chemistry

“Motherhood is about raising—and celebrating—the child you have, not the child you thought you would have. It’s about understanding that he is exactly the person he is supposed to be. And that, if you’re lucky, he just might be the teacher who turns you into the person you are supposed to be.”
― Joan Ryan, The Water Giver: The Story of a Mother, a Son, and Their Second Chance