Funny-and-random Quote by Alexandra Potter

“Someday you'll be a grown-up ... and then your mother will have no one to talk to.”

— Don DeLillo

“I asked my mother when we first met, but she evaded the answer like she does everything else.”

— Candace Knoebel

“My mother always told me if you don’t have something nice to say, not to say anything at all. I sometimes succeed in following…

— C.J. Ellisson

Mom?" I said. She turned. "Can I talk to you about something?" "Of course, darling. Come here." I took a few steps into the…

— Nicole Krauss

“Some people are lucky. They become who they are supposed to be. This did not happen to me until I met (your mother). One…

— Don DeLillo

“I suppose you want me to stand out here on the street and tell you all about me and Mom's conversation?" "Psh, no," she…

— Lisa McBride

“My mom used to say that sometimes just saying something aloud was enough to make it true.”

— Alexandra Bracken

“There is nothing harder than telling your own mother you’re everything she hoped you were not.”

— Gaia B. Amman

“Mother was like this sometimes. Conversations became riddles with traps in them, and your answers had consequences.”

— Frances Hardinge

“That means you're my kid," I explained, "and I'm your mother, and nobody can say it isn't so.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Don’t even talk to me about being a mother. You were never a mother! Just the psychotic twat I lived with for the first…

— Brandon Shire

“No one wanted to talk to a mother whose only child had just killed herself.”

— Kimberly McCreight