Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote / Image

Quote image editor Maureen Brady

Back to previous page

“In order to survive our youth, many of us became sensitized to which conditions we had to play to, to receive attention. No wonder we mistook this attention for love. We thought love came in finite quantities—it had to be competed for among siblings, or it had to be paid for with exacting dues.” — Maureen Brady

Quote 1080 x 1350 Instagram portrait
More
Platforms
Pure ratios
In order to survive our youth, many of us became sensitized to which conditions we had to play to, to receive attention. No wonder we mistook this attention for love. We thought love came in finite quantities—it had to be competed for among siblings, or it had to be paid for with exacting dues.
— Maureen Brady