20 Quotes by Keith Stuart

And the moment is so perfect, I feel like the stars will fall upon us.

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.

Nothing is safe – that is something useful I have learned. It’s a lesson every parent wants to hold off for as long as possible. But if you leave it too long, life has a way of illustrating it anyway.

Maybe being a good parent is about improvisation and spontaneity. Maybe it’s about genuinely being with your kid. Sometimes though, it is also about being able to catch sick in yours hands.

Life is an adventure, not a walk. That’s why it’s difficult.

Autism, as far as I understand it, is about not being given the rule book at birth.

But sometimes, you can’t get enough distance however hard you try. All the things you care about in your life, even the things that hurt, they have a gravitational pull. If you do manage to break free, it’s over. You’re floating in space. You’ll never get back.

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.

When you lose someone, the grief comes back at you like a flash flood, tearing through all your carefully constructed defences. You have to do what you can; you use whatever is available to get through.