Parenting Quote by Alice Munro

“It’s not that Mom didn’t keep anything, it’s that she kept the wrong things. We leave memories on objects we love and cherish, things…

— Victoria Schwab

“When she returned, she was full of life, impassioned. She seemed to want change, within herself, between them, and she believed all things were…

— Madeleine Thien

“in all the years i had blundered along in search of my own footing, she had never given me an inkling of this wish.…

— Gail Caldwell

“She had lived thirty-four years keeping everything inside, and now she was letting everything go, like butterflies released from a box. They didn't burst…

— Sarah Addison Allen

“Who but my mother held those small pieces of my childhood? Where would they go when she was gone?”

— Lorna Crozier

“The words of my mother came to me in a yellowed letter long lost. And speaking into my present from some distant place far…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“She had taken the evidence that there was a time when I was happy and obliterated it, leaving only the memories.”

— Rebecca Donovan

“My mother's perpetual now, tempting me with possibility. Weren't we silly, she might say? What was the matter with us? Let's be close again.…

— Susanna Sonnenberg

“She was frightened because she was realizing – too late, too late – that what's done can't be undone, and what's remembered must somehow…

— Stephen King

“Humans were temporal. They aged and, eventually, died. And while she could have dwelled on her tendency to morbidly fixate on this quality, she…

— Marilyn Brant

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

— Sarah Dessen

“My mother denied later that they treated me like this. She has a very convenient way of forgetting and rearranging the past to fit…

— Damien Echols