Megan Mayhew Bergman

“Sometimes it helps to lie. You tell yourself a story, even if you don't know the ending.”

— Megan Mayhew Bergman

“Mothers, I believe, intoxicate us. We idolize them and take them for granted. We hate them and blame them and exalt them…

— Megan Mayhew Bergman

“Sometimes you didn't know what you were after, I thought. Maybe there was a speck on the horizon and you followed it,…

— Megan Mayhew Bergman

“I knew I was waiting for someone I didn't understand.”

— Megan Mayhew Bergman

“I want him to know nothing but gentle landings.”

— Megan Mayhew Bergman

“I remember thinking that moms were not allowed to be sad, that surely women grew out of sadness by the time they…

— Megan Mayhew Bergman

“I want to mother the world, I thought. I have so much love. Then—I have no business being a mother. I am…

— Megan Mayhew Bergman

“I wanted, then, to become what I most admired, what now seemed most real to me. I wanted to be that exalted,…

— Megan Mayhew Bergman

“It was a character-building week, a week that thinned my hair, put circles underneath my eyes.”

— Megan Mayhew Bergman

There were no promises, no obligations between living things, she thought. Not even humans. Just raw need hidden by a game of…

— Megan Mayhew Bergman

“I pictured the mother whale, exhausted from labor, pushing her calf up to the skin of the water. The miracle of breath…

— Megan Mayhew Bergman

“I don't want him to know that people like Louis's mom exist, that people fall into land mines of pain and can't…

— Megan Mayhew Bergman