Bereavement Quote by Donna Tartt

“My mother did not want to go to America: this much I knew. I knew it by the way she became distracted and impatient…

— Catherine Chung

“From diapers on, I felt like there was something not good about me, but it was invisible to everybody but my mother. And whenever…

— Jerry Stahl

“she knew that something happened to you when your mother didn’t hold you close, or tell you all the time that you were the…

— Jojo Moyes

“I remember watching my mother emerge from her bedroom on a night when she and my father were going out, all dressed up in…

— Betsy Lerner

“My mother turned towards me with a coffeepot in each hand, her jaw dangling somewhere near her collarbone. You’d think she’d never seen me…

— Rachel Vincent

“Suddenly, as they walked with their buckets, it was not the child in each face that she sought, but the Wonder that had raised…

— Enid Bagnold

“I pulled out my bag and examined my mother's picture. I wondered what it had been like to be inside her, just a curl…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“She was suddenly aware of how empty her feet felt inside her shoes.”

— Markus Zusak

“I want to be walking down this street with Mama, headed where we're headed. But her hand in mine makes me feel like I'm…

— Susan Meissner

“I liked it when our feet were aligned, left with left, and struck the ground at the same time, leaving footprints on the shore…

— André Aciman

“And now she was found, no longer lost. Like a bag I'd given up for good suddenly reappearing in the middle of the night…

— Sarah Dessen

“By the time I rose and started walking again, I didn’t begrudge my mother a thing. The truth was, in spite of all that,…

— Cheryl Strayed