Birth Quote by Denis Johnson

When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times…

— Denis Johnson

Hurt me to see the pain across my mothers face, every time my father's fist would put her in her place.

— Christina Aguilera

I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.

— Ann Patchett

She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.

— Sherman Alexie

It was as a mother that I needed my mother back, and I needed to conjure her anew and think about what she would…

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt)

— Sylvia Plath

I wanted to die then I wanted to destroy the body I was trapped in because of what she was no matter what it…

— Justice Fitzgerald

It was the first time that we had sort of articulated our major problem. She wanted to die and I wanted her to live…

— Miriam Toews

She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt heart. She…

— Holly Black

My heart broke all over again. I wanted my life back, my mama, but I knew I would never have that. The child I…

— Dorothy Allison

I wanted impossible things. I wanted my life with her before it all turned bad. What I had been given had been taken away…

— Philip O Ceallaigh

Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could anticipate only…

— Charlotte Bronte