“ And the reason he cannot bear her dying is not the loss of her (which is the future) but that dying puts the two of them (now) into this nakedness together that is unforgivable. Anne Carson
“ It could not have been easy for Mother, an only child, to grow up without a father and with a mother who was remote. Photos of her as a child show her extremely dressed up --Cornie's beautiful little… Cornelia Maude Spelman
“ It was hard not to feel sorry for a life that had no purpose of its own... His only purpose, it seemed, was to come into her mother's life in order to send her home. For that, Bay decided, she would b… Sarah Addison Allen
“ I sometimes wonder if I am crisscrossing my father's ghostly paths and we are entering same towns or roadside diners or the black ribbons of highways that gleam in the night rain. As if we were images… Gloria Steinem
“ Glory had rehearsed angry outbursts in anticipation of his arrival. She began to hope he would come so she could tell him exactly what she thought. Marilynne Robinson
“ She pictured a dandelion gone by, the white, almost airless pieces of her family scattered so far. Elizabeth Strout
“ Keep one thing in your mind; your school & friends can never teach you properly ,"how to be a good husband & father. Srinivas Shenoy
“ Even as children they had been good in fact, but also in order to be seen as good. There was something disturbingly like hypocrisy about it all... Marilynne Robinson
“ It took me a long time to realiseThat mothers are women who carry you And not necessarily in their womb. Stacy Morris
“ My desolation was that no one knew me and I did not know myself. My family's life was my life. I knew nothing else. I was clothed, fed, given a bed to sleep in, encouraged to marry early and rich, and… Natalie Goldberg
“ Ian, man, I didna tell ye because I didna wish to lose you too. My brother was gone, and my father. I didna mean to lose my own heart's blood as well. For you are dearer to me even than home and famil… Diana Gabaldon
“ They say that time is relative. I think the way it's treating me it's a distant one, maybe a bad uncle, and not welcome in my house this Christmas!! Neil Leckman
“ Maybe she'd never really known her mother at all. And if you couldn't know the person whose body was your first home, then who could you ever know? Brit Bennett
“ When you get older you think of sadness in a different way. You don't judge it so harshly. Lori Lansens
“ Parents are like Kingdom, Your are the King.No matter where you stand, how Great n Rich you are!A King Is Always Known By His Kingdom. chetan chhibber
“ Until she had had children of her own she had not been able to contemplate the death of either of her parents; when the subject had arisen, in conversation or in her own imagining, she had said only:… Sebastian Faulks
