I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.
I'm a mother, said her mother, in her foodless flat where the dust did not dare to settle, and I know what I know.
If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.
In sickness and in sickness. That is what I wish for you. Don't seek or expect miracles. There are no miracles. Not anymore. And there are no cures for the hurt that hurts most. There is only the medi...
It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.
Journeyman stared at Grimm as though Grimm had just suggested that the engineer should prostitute his mother to pirates.
Maybe the mother manages to be a mirror only part of the time. In such 'tantalizing' cases, some babies learn to withdraw their own needs when the mother's are evident.
Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.
Mothers were much too sharp. They were like dogs. Buster always sensed when anything was out of the ordinary, and so did mothers. Mothers and dogs both had a kind of second sight that made them see in...
My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.
My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing of her subsists within the hollows and dells of m...
NOTHING HAS EVER LOOKED LIKE THAT EVER IN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY, he said. His enthusiasm was adorable. I couldn’t resist leaning over to kiss him on the cheek.Just so you know, I’m right here, Mom said...
Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.
Pets are almost always fatal, to oneself or to them. It is the curse of possession or motherhood. Mothers ruin their children, choke them like ivy. Dog-lovers steal the souls of their dogs and lose so...
She is like a mathematical equation, always there and impossible to disprove.
She was a monster, but she was my monster.
She was her own Enigma Code and me and my dad were not Bletchley Park.
She was not, herself, hugely in favor of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly . Even cats managed it. But women acted as if they'd been given a medal that entitled...
Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a...
Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything...
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