“Dorothy,” said my mother, shifting gears with an angry little spurt, and we cleared the top of the hill,” — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
When I said, "I am my mother, but I'm not," I was saying my path would be my own. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Our sense of humor," said Mother, her eyes pooled with laughing tears. "They can't take that away from us, right?” — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
“Who gets the change?" the clerk asked. "You or...your fella?" Oh, he's not my boyfriend," I said. "He's my mother.” — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“I said to my mother, Henry VII is interesting. No he's not, my mother said.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“We know us,” said Mother. “They’re wrong. And don’t ever allow them to convince you otherwise. Do you understand?” — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
“When I was being forgiving, I said that my mother was simply exhausted. I suspected, though, she was simply mean.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“I'm a mother," said her mother, in her foodless flat where the dust did not dare to settle, "and I know what… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“She pointed to a poster on the casino that showed a mother telling her son, “I Would Rather You Came Home a… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
“Thank-you, son,’ said his father. ‘I want you to know we’re both proud of you. Take care, and keep in touch if… — Chris Tinniswood Copy Share Image
“Don't touch me," said the girl. "I want to be sick by myself." "That's impossible," said her mother. She continued to rub… — Julie Otsuka Copy Share Image
“Why don't you go on, Mother dear?' he asked. 'It's such nonsense!' said his mother. 'I believe it would go on for… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she… — Hank Snow Copy Share Image
But I think she would have been happy with Fabrice,' I said. 'He was the great love of her life, you know.'… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
“Hideo," said my mother, in the terrifying way women have of passing without interval from one subject to another because they have… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“For many women,’ she said, ‘having a child is their central experience of creativity, and yet the child will never remain a… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“I could feel she was angry with me because of my gawkiness, because of my accent and my oilskin bag, bound with… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Mother! Katie remembered. She had called her own mother "mama" until the day she had told her that she was going to… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
I know what you said! My mother would never have belonged to something like that. Some kind of-some kind of hate group."… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“When I live in the age of miracles," Allan said, "your mother was the greatest miracles of all. Just by standing near… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“If one morning in the Spring, a stranger came and said to me, Your mother, father, brother, sister, uncle, lover, friend, is… — Lê Thi Diem Thúy Copy Share Image
“Good,' she said. Then she exhaled a long breath and leaned back in her seat. 'I can't believe I just talked to… — Jennifer Sturman Copy Share Image
“have you heard about the young Hindu virgin from Kutch, who kept two tame snakes in her crutch, she said when they… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
“The family were arranged on the veranda under the grapevine, each occupied with his or her own affairs. Mother was knitting, counting… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
My wife said, 'Can my mother come down for the weekend?' So I said, 'Why?' And she said, 'Well, she's been up… — Bob Monkhouse Copy Share Image
Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away. So he said to his mother, "I am running away". "If… — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
“Don't blame us," said my mother. "We didn't blow up half of Court, steal a dozen cars, call out a murderer in… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“Each of you told what your burden was just now, except Beth. I rather think she hasn't got any," said her mother.… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“When the children were ready to go to bed, Katie did something very unusual. It was unusual because she was not a… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“My mother and I never really understood one another. We translated each other's meanings and I seemed to hear less than what… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I just wanted to make a million dollars. But I couldn't sing and I couldn't play ball, so I said to my… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
“And I said, “I needed to sit down and be quiet and think.” And he said, “OK, let’s keep it simple. What… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Oh dear," said my mother, turning to Marmie and going "Ce Justin, est-il gai?" (This Justin, is he gay?) Marmie handed her… — Sarah Strohmeyer Copy Share Image
I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.'… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
A young boy said to his mother, 'How old were you when I was born ?' His mother replied, '23 .' 'Wow… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Don't have a mother,' he said. Not only had he no mother, but he had not the slightest desire to have one.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Mum?” Addolgar said to his mother. “Because I love him,” she reminded them all as she’d been doing for centuries. “That’s what… — G.A. Aiken Copy Share Image
