A Boy Made of Blocks
Keith Stuart
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Life is an adventure, not a walk. That's why it's difficult.”
“Grief never really goes away. Time doesn’t heal. Not fully. After a while - a few months, a few years maybe – grief retreats into the darkest corners of your mind, but it will lurk there indefinitely. It will leak into everything else you do or feel; it will lurch forward when you don’t expect it. It will haunt you when you sleep. Time doesn’t heal, it cauterises.”
“It's weird how a whole life can be distilled into a series of moments, and how, without thinking, we order those moments into a story that makes sense and seems to mean something. We are endless editors of our own histories. But sometimes we get it wrong”
“... How tentative and fragile happiness is. It's so easy to miss. Sometimes it passes without you seeing it. But sometimes, if you're incredibly lucky and patient, it will come around again.”
“When you start out as a parent, you have these big ambitions for your child: success, popularity, brilliance. But as life goes on, sometimes that scales back to something much more profound. Happiness.”
“Life is built on the little things.”
“Life is an adventure, not a walk. That's why it's difficult - because life is extraordinary and it means something, and those things are costly. You have to be patient and prepared and strong.”
“Autism, as far as I understand it, is about not being given the rule book at birth.”
“Sometimes, there’s no escape,” I say. “Sometimes you have to bear the pressure and hope for a miracle.”
“we’ve got to stop being passengers in this life. We’ve got to – I don’t know – we’ve got to drag the driver out, punch him in the face and steal the car.”
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