5 Quotes by Jonice Webb

Other people live in a different world from me. They see colors, feel things, love each other and get excited. I have none of that. To me, the world is gray. I'm on the outside, looking in.

After a childhood chock full of unpredictable parenting, the adult child of the addict is anxious, worried, and secretly insecure.

Elsie is treated as a non-person, simply a reflection of how her mother sees herself.

When parents are caught up in their own addictions, they aren't capable of noticing their child's emotions; nor can they relate to their child as he or she really is.

When a child receives the message, even subtly or indirectly, that his emotions don't matter, he will grow up feeling, somewhere deep inside, that he himself doesn't matter.