“They looked like scarecrows,’ Slim said of his troops. ‘But they looked like soldiers, too.’ He also recalled the heart-rending sight of… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
She didn't want to think about how wrong this was or how foolish it was to give herself to a known seducer.… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
“Thoughts of Abigail filled her world. By all accounts she had bee a tall, thin, woman, whose eyes held a power beyond… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“I've spent my whole life trying to get over having had Nikki for a mother, and I have to say that from… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I promise, you about to have a lot of overdosed muthafuckers on your watch.” “Nah, dead motherfuckers can’t buy drugs; that’s bad… — Patrice Balark Copy Share Image
“but even with the gift of tongues, I’m having trouble learning to speak hip-hop. Why is it that one can busta rhyme… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“There are ten in a circle and everyone wants to speak and no one cares what the other person presently speaking is… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
Our mothers who have gone are buried in our bodies. It can be said that we were born with dead mothers in… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No. Be an assassin,… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
“If I weren't a ghost tied to my dead mother in the lake--if I had things I wanted to do and a… — Dot Hutchison Copy Share Image
The father spent his time talking and thinking of religion. He proclaimed himself an agnostic and was so absorbed in destroying the… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“I've tried to get the angel to watch MTV so I can learn the vocabulary of your music, but even with the… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died. — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she… — Confucius Copy Share Image
[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“It was time to face the second hardest fact in her life; she had a dead mother, and a father who was… — Alex Morgan Copy Share Image
“What should we read next?” Bernadette asked. “Pride and Prejudice is my favorite. So let’s do that,” Sylvia said. Are you sure,… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
I didn't even realize this at first, but there's almost no central character in any of my 24 books who doesn't have… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive To the dead Mother's face, whose subtile down You had not seen take amber… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
“They all spoke kindly of my dead mother, who had been a slave merely in name, but in nature was noble and… — Harriet Jacobs Copy Share Image