Failure Quote by Cherise Wolas

“Incessantly, it seemed, life plagued her with responsibilities, made her fall in love, ripped away any consolation she might find. Sisters and parents, brothers…

— Meg Rosoff

“Her death had obliterated that. It had obliterated me. It had cut me short at the very height of my youthful arrogance. It had…

— Cheryl Strayed

“But her mother was one of those weakest of women who can never forget the beauty they once possessed, or quite believe they have…

— George MacDonald

“Once giving way to tears, she wept bitterly for all that she had lost, and all that she must lose so soon. Her mother…

— Willa Cather

“A mother never abandons her child, even when he seems to want it”

— Elizabeth Hoyt

“Her bond with the couple who raised her is fierce and beyond questioning. She cannot name the sensation of losing them as grief. She…

— M.L. Stedman

“She hadn’t understood loss until it had laid her to waste, and she feared what would become of her when she was again without…

— Molly Collier

“Yes, her childlessness was a fugue in itself, a flight- this was the habitual theme she was trying now to resist- a flight from…

— Ian McEwan

“...tried to be faultless as a parent, but still she worries that in the end, all her love for her daughter will not compensate…

— Shilpi Somaya Gowda

“She tasted of salvation and damnation at once. No woman had ever lured him to forget who he was…forget his past, his future, and…

— Vonda Sinclair

“The last time she had seen him in the flesh, all the vital force of his life stripped away, his sharpened face had confronted…

— Anna Kavan

“She had forgotten his faults as we forget the sorrows of our departed childhood.”

— George Eliot