Wendy Sumner-Winter

“It is instinctive my recoiling. I imagine the confusion of some relatives, their disapproval even, when faced with my withdrawal; the calls I leave unanswered, the messages unread..”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

“I must spare my lovedones my endless roiling thoughts. I must conceal just how hard grief's iron clamp is.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

“In truth, at first it is a protective stance, a shrinking from further pain, because I am drained limp from crying, and to speak about it would be to cry again. But later it is because I want to sit alone with my grief. I want to protect—hide? hide from?—these foreign sensations, this bewildering series of hills and valleys.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

“Don’t leave your teen with the choice between obediently toeing the line or acting like a lunatic to exert some level of control over life.”
― Jerusha Clark, Your Teenager Is Not Crazy: Understanding Your Teen's Brain Can Make You a Better Parent