Mother Quote by Celeste Ng

“Because her mother had loved her enough to tell her she could do anything.”

— Kit Rocha

“More than anything, more than anything she had with him, she missed the language they had invented, the likes of which she had never…

— David Grossman

“The mother was conflicted between what she knows that what's possible.”

— Brooke Hauser

“There were a dozen reasons why she might refuse him. But they were all someone else’s reasons. Her mother’s, her peers’, society’s. She’d already…

— Tessa Dare

“She was beginning to realize people could survive most things. Not because thy were brave or strong, but because there wasn't any choice.”

— Candice Proctor

“His mother had become impossible, as, he supposed, all elderly people were when they refused to accept that their lives had to change.”

— Candace Bushnell

“Because as far as she was concerned, there was no in-between: She wanted all or nothing, illogically, irrationally, even though something inside her knew…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“She wanted all or nothing, illogically, irrationally, even though something inside of her knew that nothing would be too hard, and all was impossible.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

“How had it begun? Like everything: with mothers and fathers. Because of Lydia's mother and father, because of her mother's and father's mothers and…

— Celeste Ng

“most of all, she’d learned that she had to rely on herself. Certainly her father and her sister couldn’t be counted on.”

— Kristin Hannah

“Her father was cold and distant, more likely to cuddle the family dog than one of his own children. He believed that hard work…

— Daniel James Brown

“I saw in her more potential, more character, than her mother allowed.”

— Amy Goldwasser