I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children. Allegra Huston Read Quote
The most important thing in convoluted families, I learnt as I wrote, is that the child feels loved. I knew from a young age that I was a problem which required constant solving; but I never felt unloved. I was lucky. Allegra Huston Read Quote
Losing one’s mother to a car crash at age four isn’t a readily accessible idea of good luck, but I’ve come to accept it as the condition that was required for my luck to fall into place. Allegra Huston Read Quote
When I moved to London at age 16, tired of the shuffle around other people’s houses and ready to live on my own, I met my English brother and sister, who instantly claimed me as family. Allegra Huston Read Quote
I was a supporting character in other people’s lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English in the U.S., American in England, dogged yet comforted by that familiar feeling of alien-ness, which occupied that space where my sense of self should have been. Allegra Huston Read Quote