Joan Lingard Quotes

My dad died when I was 15 and worked way too much.

When my dad passed, I felt like I had to grow up very quickly.

I was an only child growing up, and my father passed away when I was twelve, so for most of my life, it was just me and my momma. We were really, really close. Learning to live in the world without her has been incredibly hard. At first, it didn't make any sense - how to do it, to live without her - but you slowly get somewhat used to it.

Losing my mom at such a young age had a profound effect on my life.

I was raised an orphan... My mother died when I was 2 years old.

I was only a young girl of 13 when my father passed away from a sudden heart attack, leaving us unprepared to take on life without him. We had been protected from life's challenges so far. But without warning, all that changed overnight.

I finally got the dad I always wanted and then he left. At 18, 19 years old, I was really upset and had to work through that.

I was raised by my mother. My father died when I was 15. He was just 41.

My father died when I was three years old and my sister was three months.

I had a real bad attitude after my dad passed of liver cancer. I was 9, and we were really close.

When you lose a mother or father, it's still the hardest time of your life.

My mom died when I was 22. My stepfather, who I loved like a father, pretty quickly got involved with another woman. Suddenly there was another woman sleeping in my mother's bed, and it was very difficult. Their relationship brought up my profound loss, and the truth was that my family would never be the same again.

I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn't have a father during my teenage years.

I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.

My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.

What shaped me the most would probably be when my dad passed away. For the rest of my life, I'll kind of feel like he's gonna come home.

My mom died when I was 8.

I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what it's like to lose a beloved parent.

I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college.

My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.

You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.

I had written two or three books before my husband noticed that in every one of them a family member was missing. He suggested that it was because my father's death, when I was five, utterly changed my world. I can only suppose he is right and that this is the reason I am drawn to a narrative where someone's life is changed by loss.

I went to elementary school in L.A. I was born in L.A. My mother was from Redondo Beach. My father was French. He died six months before I was born, so my mother went home. I was born there. Not the childhood that most people think. Middle-class, raised by my mother. Single mom.

I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.

Losing your parent is unlike anything.