Fantasy Quote by Camille Paglia

The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Did other people’s mothers vanish into holes in the ground during their midlife crises?”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“When a mother loses a daughter, she grieves over the future that her daughter will never have, but she can take solace in memories…

— Amor Towles

“Memories particularly of when they weren’t being what parents are nine-tenths of the time, the taskmasters, the examples, the moral authorities, the nags of…

— Philip Roth

Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.

— John Connolly

I am fooling only myself when I say that my mother exists now only in the photographs on my bulletin board or in the…

— Hope Edelman

“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

“I’d had this idea that my birth mother was waiting for me to get in touch, and that we’d have this fantastic reunion. When…

— Adele Abbott

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

— Honore de Balzac

When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.

— Rita Mae Brown

“The death of a parent, he wrote, 'despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise…

— Joan Didion

“(We loved Mother too, completely, but we were finding out, as Father was too, that it is good for parents and for children to…

— M.F.K. Fisher