Parenting Quote by Anna Quindlen

“I look at my mother, connected by a breath of glimmering hope, her red and shadowed eyes reveal that some element of our whole…

— Alfred Nestor

“My mother picked me up in her arms, touching my checks comforting my distress. I stared into her eyes and held her hair in…

— Joseph McGinnis

“The live, warm presence of my mother had disappeared. In its place stood this remoteness posing as Mama. Her anxiety was unbearable to me.…

— Vivian Gornick

“WHEN I WAS A boy, after my mother died, I always tried hard to hold her in my mind as I was falling asleep…

— Donna Tartt

“I heard my name once more, and now it seemed louder and closer. Turning to the sound, I willed my eyes to open. When…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“I pulled out my bag and examined my mother's picture. I wondered what it had been like to be inside her, just a curl…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“I remember watching my mother emerge from her bedroom on a night when she and my father were going out, all dressed up in…

— Betsy Lerner

“Someday no one will remember that she ever existed. Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with…

— John Green

“The memory slowly faded away. I could feel tears strolling down my snout from my eyes. I missed my father... He did what he…

— Grace Fiorre

“When death comes, she said, all that matters is this: to be next to one another. My mother was wearing a silk dress, and…

— Hannah Tinti

“I believe I met my mother there, in the final instant. Not her ghost but some vaster portion of her, her self boundlessly recharged…

— Karen Russell

“So I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible…

— Samuel Beckett