Parenting Quote by Donna Tartt

“Losing Grandma, just when I'd found her again. A waterfall of flowers brightened her funeral, but they couldn't disguise the stench of death.”

— Ellen Hopkins

“I look at my mother, connected by a breath of glimmering hope, her red and shadowed eyes reveal that some element of our whole…

— Alfred Nestor

“Her mother, buried. A town, lost. A small group of men, somewhere out there, cheering.”

— Hugh Howey

“After my mother died, there wasn’t a day that went by that I didn’t think about her, didn’t miss her. Not just missing her…

— Karina Halle

“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

“My mother picked me up in her arms, touching my checks comforting my distress. I stared into her eyes and held her hair in…

— Joseph McGinnis

“Leaning against my father, the sadness finally broke open inside me, hollowing out my heart and leaving me bleeding. My feet felt rooted in…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“My mother's perpetual now, tempting me with possibility. Weren't we silly, she might say? What was the matter with us? Let's be close again.…

— Susanna Sonnenberg

“After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not…

— Mitch Albom

“There, just beyond his open palm, was our mother’s face. I wasn’t expecting it. We hadn’t requested a viewing, and the memorial service was…

— Mary Roach

“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

“Right after her funeral I felt the way you feel when it suddenly starts raining hard, and you look around and find no place…

— Elena Ferrante