Mother Quotes by Sarah Dessen

Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.

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“Everyone else could get through to my mother: all they had to do was dial a number and wait for her to…

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It's not forever', she'd said, but to my mother, it might as well have been. She had make her choice, and this…

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My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full…

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As far as I was concerned, we'd come to a draw: I hadn't wanted to come, and she didn't want me to…

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This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed…

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Hollis " I said "you're messing with me right now aren't you You're in Paris or somewhere and just-" "What " he…

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very quietly, I heard a voice in my ear.It said, in a weird, cheesy, right-out-of-one-of-my-mother’s-novels way, “Ah. Wemeet again.” I turned my…

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I think my mother characters have changed a lot since Sasha was born, just because I understand what a hard job it…

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But she wouldn't. I knew that already. My mother and I had an understanding: we worked together to be as much in…

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The worst part was that I had things I wanted to tell my mother, too many to count, but none of them…

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I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from her…

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My mother has always been the point I calibrated myself against. In knowing where she was, I could always locate myself, as…

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I've changed in my sympathies since I've become a mother myself. In high school I went through a period where I was…

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When he first put his arms around me, it was tentative, like maybe he expected I'd pull away. When I didn't, he…

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“But as I stood watching her, I realized how truly hard it was,really, to see someone you love change right before your…

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So say I’m your mom.' 'What?' I said. 'I’m your mom,' he repeated. 'Now tell me you want to quit modeling.' I…

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“She started out of the kitchen, then stopped and put her hand on my shoulder, bending down to kiss me gently on…

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“Nothing‟s going to change, Jamie had said that day, but I‟d known even then this wasn‟t true. My mother had always been…

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I thought this was a cookout. You know, dogs and burgers, Tater Tots, ambrosia salad" Dexter picked up a box of Twinkies,…

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“And now she was found, no longer lost. Like a bag I'd given up for good suddenly reappearing in the middle of…

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“Once this had been the life I'd wanted. Even chosen. Now, though, I couldn't believe that there had been a time when…

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“More than anyone in that room, I was aware of exactly the sort of person who did such a thing. What I…

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“Mom." I couldn't believe she was doing this again. She was taking this moment, this time when I was strongest, away from…

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“It was something I couldn't put my finger on or define clearly, but a whole mishmash of words and incidents, all rolling…

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“So what's your doll's name?" Boo asked me. "Barbie," I said. "All their names are Barbie." "I see," she said. "Well, I'd…

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“God! You'll do anything to avoid it.' Avoid what?' my mother said. The past,' Caroline said. 'Our past. I'm tired of acting…

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And that was as far as he got before i heard it. The thumping of footsteps, running up the lawn toward me:…

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“I can still see Boo sitting there on the floor, cross-legged, holding my Ken and watching my face as she tried to…

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“My mother was strong, in all the ways I was weak. She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all…

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“Most people put off my mother's erratic behavior to the fact that she was a writer, as if that just explained everything.…

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And so we stood there in the kitchen, my mother and I, facing off over everything that had built up since June,…

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I hoped that Grace would be a little bit of the best of all of us: Scarlett's spirit, and my mother's strength,…

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