Quote by Amanda Milo

“And another baby could die.”

— Deanna Roy

“I don’t think so. Beth didn’t get any presents.”

— Breehn Burns

“Smells, I think, may be the last thing on earth to die.”

— Fern Schumer Chapman

“She'd once told me that I was probably the only person on earth who'd be given more than one soapbox in their lifetime because…

— Dorothy Koomson

“I'm really disappointed about how you've turned out," shouted Mum like Beth was a slightly burnt biscuit.”

— Karen Foxlee

“She'd bottled herself up like a person already cremated.”

— Bette Lee Crosby

“Now, even as her family grieved, she was giving birth again.”

— Mark Oristano

“In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.”

— James Baldwin

“She’d just seen her dead grandmother and had a lovesick warlock on her lawn. The last thing she needed was to worry about extraterrestrial…

— Michelle M. Pillow

“Death—I’ve always thought the hospital smelled like death.  It’s a smell you never forget and one I have always hated.”

— Erika Ashby

“From diapers on, I felt like there was something not good about me, but it was invisible to everybody but my mother. And whenever…

— Jerry Stahl

“ Camille, what happened to you must surely have been the very best thing that could possibly have happened. ... I wonder if the…

— Mary Balogh