Parenting Quote by Alice Hoffman

“She'd wanted to run an inn. To welcome people, to mother them. They had no children of their own, and she had a powerful…

— Louise Penny

“Though the cottage was quiet, Helen sensed the change before she was even fully awake. It was like standing in a clearing and knowing…

— Corinne Beenfield

“And I realized that a death in the family wasn’t permanent—that a new life could replace an old life, and that the world moved…

— Caleb Pinkerton

“I didn’t know how long my sisters and I lay there together, just like we had once shared that carved bed in that dilapidated…

— Sarah J. Maas

“And yet, death was still there, everywhere. We had adopted her. She lived in us and we in her. She’d emerge from our red…

— Mahi Binebine

“She began to sacrifice that old identity to live in her new one. It was the new life, after all, that everyone wanted.”

— Chris Pavone

“But, as her mother had often told her, life wasn't meant to be easy. It was meant to be lived.”

— Susan Mallery

“The manner of the woman was ungracious; but her words were true. They saw that their presence could do nothing towards the alleviation of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The little queen’s mother and father had said that she would live on, for a long time, and that her tears would magnify the…

— Meia Geddes

“Yet within a miles, Margaret knew of house after house, where she would for her own sake, and her mother for her Aunt Shaw's,…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“She must face the forest of her mother’s past in order to save herself and the one she loves.”

— Carrie Ryan

“Helen didn't yet understand that conjuring up the future was the duty of the living, what they owed to the dead.”

— Tatjana Soli