Unspoken Worries Quotes

If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence.

Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

My biggest fears I can't talk about. And my biggest fear is that those fears happen, and I can't stop it.

For teenage kids, they feel a pressure to sweep things under the rug because they feel like they're not important enough to have problems.

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

There's no perfect life. There's always something going on behind the curtain that people don't know about.

A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.

If there is a problem, and you don't say anything about it, it's like a cancer and it becomes bigger.

I think my mother was always worried about me when she was alive.