Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?

“Rehvenge, I’m talking to you more than I speak with my mahmen.” “I thought your mother was dead.” “She is.” “You have a very…

— J.R. Ward

Mother is the dead heart of the family spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and…

— Germaine Greer

my mother always found me out. Always. She's been dead for thirty-five years, but I have this feeling that even now she's watching.

— Natalie Babbitt

My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.

— Lillian Hellman

I take every opportunity to tell people how happy my mother is to be dead.

— Sark

Fine! Your mother's died, your mother's dead, and your mother ain't living no more!

— George Jefferson

I’m talking to you more than I speak with my mahmen.” “I thought your mother was dead.” “She is.” “You have a very low…

— J.R. Ward

“Rose waited for the night to bring her the same comfort. It didn't. Her mother was dead...she was now too exhausted to sleep --…

— Diane Setterfield

“His mother is dead, yet she has never not been, in theory, at his shoulder. He wants her not to have known and suffered…

— Graham Swift

“They were certainly a pair. Cincinnati in a dead man’s suit, Mother in a dead man’s wallet.”

— Ruta Sepetys

“We met Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his wife, his mother or himself must be dead”

— Jane Austen

“The mother dead these fourteen years did incubate in her own bosom the creature who would carry her off.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“The man who told my mother that I am dead while alive is indirectly asking for her death.”

— Anthony Ugochukwu O. Aliche

“My mother is dead, my mother is dead,” she kept saying it in her numbed state, because it had not sunk in. It is…

— Edna O'Brien

If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.

— Gary Shteyngart