Cough Quote by David Small

Mama learned to laugh with them, before they could laugh at her, and to do it so well no one could be sure what…

— Dorothy Allison

“Mama wasn’t Mama anymore, she was Mother, usually followed by a “pallease!”

— Katherine Allred

“My voice sounds like I have a cold, all the mucus from my crying lodged in my nose. A train, Mama said. Camille came,…

— Jesmyn Ward

“Mama let out a snort. “Talk about a nerve. I guess she’s too good for my house now. She oughta try to sell that…

— Edward Kelsey Moore

“Mama only snorted. A terse, ironic half laugh, the kind of angry chortle that powered Mama through her daily drudgery, as if it were…

— Stefan Merrill Block

“Momma had told me, “See, she looks asleep,” but when I squeezed her hand, her eyes never opened. Daddy carried me out the sanctuary…

— Angie Thomas

“On this particular day, there was a woman in line right in front of us. She was in her thirties, smartly but not expensively…

— Will Schwalbe

“I can be better, Mama. I won’t skip school no more. I promise.” She looks at me for the first time, her eyes searchin’…

— G. Neri

“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

“Mama operated under the assumption that I was eight years old and incapable of feeding myself. It was physically impossible for her to cross…

— Molly Harper

Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This…

— Erma Bombeck

“Maman! The word seems to come out of me all on its own. I think it's strange my mouth would do that. The rest…

— Claire King