Unforeseen Struggles Quotes

I feel older than I really am. It's because of the cards I was dealt.

You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.

At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.

Looking after a disabled child pushes you to the limits of what you can cope with... physically, emotionally. It's because there's this baby, this child that you love more than you can possibly imagine, in some way more than a normal child because you worry about them 24 hours a day. But at the same time you are so, so proud of them.

There is something about having babies in your 40s that is unique in both a humiliating and amazing way.

That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.

Part of what you learn about life is that a wrecking ball can come out of nowhere, and it isn't just going to take out your left toe. It can hit you right in the middle and take you down.

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.