Annette Curtis Klause Quotes

When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life.

But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult.

Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that.

Everybody is not completely traumatised by their life.

I don't think children are any more resilent than anyone else. They're just people with little bodies.

My childhood gave me resilience - and there's little that can surprise me in life.

Part of growing up is learning to live with your emotions; today’s shortcut is to believe whatever your feelings are, they’re justified.

You're not always happy with things that go on in life on a daily basis. There's nothing I can do. You've got to deal with it and still take care of myself.

The more crap you have had to deal with in your life, the better you are at handling 'Big Brother.'

I've been hit in the head a lot, but I don't think I have any problems, but I can't, for the life of me, remember a lot of my road stories and good times. When times are bad enough, that's all you can ever think about.

I don't know what I'm supposed to do now. I know other people have it a lot worse. I do know that, but it's crashing in anyway, and I just can't stop thinking that the little kid eating french fries with his mom in the shopping mall is going to grow up and my sister.

People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.

We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment

Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

I went through so many things personally, emotionally and mentally during that time off that I know that I'm better for it now and I think I'm a better athlete because of that.

I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, 'I went through something really strange and awful and it has altered me forever.'

Grateful people may recover faster from trauma.

I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they're young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same.

Children can only take so much, and they deal with it however they can.

I don't know if we ever fully get over the pain of watching a child trying to find their way through a world that too often doesn't understand.

When you have a tough childhood, you either cry or make a joke.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

At first, when I got bad press and people would talk bad about my family or something like that, I would get really upset, but now it's just not worth my energy.