Parenting Quote by David Levithan

“As she spoke, I wanted to cry, because sometimes it's just so damn hard to be a mother. We have to wait and wait…

— Lisa See

“I realized how much it must suck to be a parent. You devote everything to your kids, who just end up growing up and…

— Sara Taylor

“She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing…

— Shannon Celebi

“She missed most of all the feeling of having a mother.”

— Susan Ornbratt

“But just as no one really knows what it is like to be a mother until she holds her first child, no one who…

— Gregg Olsen

“I wish I could have been better for her, more of what she deserved. She was a great mom, but that wasn’t me”

— Bry Ann

“I began for the first time to really understand the loss my adoptive mother must have felt from not having her own child. I…

— Zara Phillips

“No mother is ever, completely, a child’s idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as…

— Margaret Atwood

“I wanted to understand her predicament because I was her son and I loved her with a helpless corroded love.”

— Jerry Pinto

“She was not a mother but she had a mother's gift of rushing to the worst possible outcome.”

— Brit Bennett

“I lowered my hands and stared at the tiny horse, considering his question. I couldn’t think of anyone I’d ever felt sorry for. There…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Losing a child is the worst thing that can happen to a mother.”

— Savannah Page