Jenny Nimmo Quotes

I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what it's like to lose a beloved parent.

For years following the death of my mother, I wanted to write about her. I started writing what I thought of as personal essays about growing up as her child, but I never could finish any of them. I think I was too close to that loss, and too eager to try and resolve things, to make her death make sense.

Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off.

I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.

I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she died. I was 16.

No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young.

My dad died when he was 60. I was only 17 and I think, psychologically, that had a huge impact on me, probably more than I realised.

Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.

I'm not interested in using my father's death as some touch point for why I've become an actor - it's grossly opportunistic.

I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

I had wanted to be a novelist for so long, but I didn't have a story. That story came from the death of my father, and wrestling with how to help my mother. Writing it allowed me to work through my fears, frustrations and desires. I wanted control over the situation. And I wasn't sure I would have any in real life.

In 2002, my husband died very suddenly. My main concern that day was how to deliver the news to our daughter, then eight. Someone put me in touch with Judith Wallerstein, an expert in child psychology who coached me through what to say.

I am lucky in that I have never been depressed in my life, but this is the one thing which has really affected me: the loss of my mother as I knew her.

English Prime Ministers and American Presidents, it’s amazing how many of them have lost a parent in their childhood.

I was raised an orphan... My mother died when I was 2 years old.

My father's death was the most terrible thing that happened to me in my life.

I lost my mom to breast cancer about three years ago, and it has changed me forever.

I was only a young girl of 13 when my father passed away from a sudden heart attack, leaving us unprepared to take on life without him. We had been protected from life's challenges so far. But without warning, all that changed overnight.

It's not good to lose your dad at any time but at 13 years of age you are just going through puberty and growing up and that was a very crucial time and was a hard time to lose my dad and it had a big effect on me.

You can really examine the suffering and consequences that happen when there's a loss in a family.

I lost my mom to cancer when I was a kid.

I didn't know it, but my father had a brain tumour. Everything happened very fast. Within a year, he was gone. Because I was so young, I didn't completely understand the concept of death.

My dad passed away when I was 10.

My mother passed. She passed when I was 10 or 11.