Maybe I am getting too grown to want to sleep with Mama. But like a baby, I still have this smallness to my mind. I don't need her hands to convince me the world I can't see from under my blanket is r...
…but the truly frightening thing was to learn that his mother was no stronger than he was, that the blows of the world hurt her just as much as they hurt him and that except for the fact that she was...
It felt strange to call them directly, to hear her father’s Hello? after the second ring, and when he heard her voice, he raised his, almost shouting, as he always did with international calls. Her mo...
As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.
Cyril about Charles Avery:'Charles was a banker. He was quite rich but he was always cheating on his taxes. He went to prison a few times for it. And when he was younger he always had a string of wome...
Neither your mother nor I have any imagination at all and we certainly didn't bring you up to have one
It's easy for parents to pull the strings that make one dance...after all, they are the ones who tied those strings in the first place
No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as...