Parenting Quote by Dorothy Dunnett

“It's a simple world for her. A curtain fluttering - that's how she is - lives, moves - obediently, yet with every appearnace of…

— William H. Gass

“Mother, once I learned what wings were, opening was easy.”

— Jacob Oet

“Ordinarily, her love affairs are entered into skittishly, sometimes reluctantly. She doesn't dive into bed but flutters in like a wayward moth.”

— Maggie Shipstead

“Everything I love has always had a tendency to be taken from me. I tell very few about the wings. Or the flying.”

— Sarah J. Maas

“We fear to trust our wings. We plume and feather them, but dare not throw our weight upon them. We cling too often to…

— Charles Newcomb Baxter

“Then her mother – as skilled in the art of ambush as most mothers are – startled her with her furious, echoing roar.”

— John Flanagan

“Her mother existed entirely in the moment. And she made every moment sparkle.”

— Lisa Jewell

“It was what her mother had always been. A place to put down her heart. A resting stop to recover her breath. A set…

— Katherine Rundell

“Daughter follows mother in actions and habits and some times also follows her granny.”

— Tayyab Nawaz Sulehri

“And her joy would become a restless thing, flapping its wings inside her, as though looking for an opening to fly away.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“And this evening when I close my eyes against the darkness and think about her, I'll imagine iridescent wings fluttering, if only for a…

— Nancy Stephan

“His eyelids fluttered. (Only eyelids do that. And butterflies.)”

— Rainbow Rowell