Protect Myself Quote by Danielle Paige

“Sitting there, I wasn’t convinced I’d survive until that day let alone beyond it. I felt the struggle intensifying between my mom and me…

— J M Northup

“In my mind, I took what had just happened to my shoulder, and I put it into a box. A box with a tight…

— Sarah Gailey

“It was easier with Mother--always had been--less complicated, less treacherous. I didn't have to be on my guard so much. I didn't have to…

— Khaled Hosseini And The Mountains Echoed

“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

“Everything about her shredded my heart because she reminded me too much of my mother, and she reminded me too much of my mother's…

— Jessica Park

“(...) And through it all I thought of my mother and the lives she didn’t get to live.”

— Sam J. Miller

“I lay down in the mother ash dirt among the crocuses and told her it was okay. That I'd surrendered. That since she died,…

— Cheryl Strayed

“I was always a little girl, lost in Oz, looking for a way to believe that there was no place like home …”

— Kristin Hannah

“I was a girl, I learned, who got what she wanted, but not without sadness, not without cutting a swath of destruction so wide…

— Anton DiSclafani

“In the silence that followed, I was aware of just how much I wished things were different. I wanted to be able to talk…

— Morgan Matson

“I felt hollowed out. My mom's death was not useful. I felt a shot of rage at her, and then imagined those last bloody…

— Gillian Flynn

“And as for my mom, whatever happened, whatever her reasons were, they don’t really matter anymore other than as a way to know her…

— Eliza Crewe