Despair Quote by Amy Tan

My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. A…

— Sylvia Plath

Just as my search for my mother had in some ways shaped my life, her faith that I was alive had shaped hers. She…

— Saroo Brierley

It took me a long time to get used to the reality that my grandmother had passed away. Wherever I was, in the house,…

— Quang Nhuong Huynh

When she died, Mom left me her letters and journals. Windows into things I would have been too young to understand when she was…

— John Dickerson

I resented my mother for guessing my innermost secrets. She was like God, everywhere at once knowing everything.

— Linda Hogan

(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadness)

— Jean Sasson

“It occurred to me that I had never seen my mother defeated, even when life presented difficulties and disappointments.”

— Piper Kerman

Losing my mother at such an early age is the scar of my soul. But I feel like it ultimately made me into the…

— Mariska Hargitay

“My mother's death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her... I could not resign myself…

— Salvador Dalí

“In the end, his mother’s memory could not be shamed by a gift from God. Don’t worry about me, she would say, and never…

— Jan Karon

After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been… It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

— Nancy Hale

When I told my mom I was auditioning for 'The Handmaid's Tale,' she lost it. She was so excited.

— Madeline Brewer