First-sentence Quote by Esmeralda Santiago Download Open image ““The night before I left my mother, I wrote a letter. ”” — Esmeralda Santiago ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare First-sentence Mother Parenting
“I left a note for my mother. I always leave a note for my mother when I am on a case.” — Marjorie Weinman Sharmat Copy Share Image
“My mother still deludes herself that the letters are written out of more than a desire to spend as little time in our company… — Cat Hellisen Copy Share Image
“My mom said you always write thank-you letters, and besides, I wanted to.” — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“WHEN WE GOT THE LETTER in the post, my mother was ecstatic. She had already decided that all our” — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
“And in the night my own mother came to the window to meet me, strange, solitary; splendid with countless stars; my mother Night; mine,… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“My mother's story continues to haunt me, it will until the day I die. My guilt and personal anguish is a good thing. It… — M.J. Burke Sr Copy Share Image
I write a letter to my mother every day, because in that letter, I write down my day. And if I don't write it… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“WHEN I WAS A boy, after my mother died, I always tried hard to hold her in my mind as I was falling asleep so maybe I’d dream of her, only I never did. Or, rather, I dreamed of her constantly, only as absence, not presence: a breeze blowing through a just-vacated house, her handwriting on a notepad, the smell… — Donna Tartt Copy Share
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 on my doorstep, packed for a journey I'd long ago forgotten. It was odd, considering I'd gotten accustomed to her being nowhere and anywhere, to finally know where my mother was. An exact location, pinpointed. Like… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share
“Ana had experienced reactions like Ramon's in the mirrored salons of Sevilla society, in the waxed halls of the Convento de las Buenas Madres, on the streets of Cadiz and San Juan. It was a look that said, "I see you, but I deign not to speak to you." It said, "I see you but I do not share the… — Esmeralda Santiago Copy Share
Another train will come. Why rush? Why worry? Why go crazy? Another train will come. And sure enough, another train going my way was pulling into the station. My bad mood evaporated. I entered the car smiling, certain that there would be more missed trains in my life, more closed doors in my face, but there would always be another… — Esmeralda Santiago Copy Share
“In the Spanish-speaking Americas, Christmas is much more than a one-day event followed by a staggering credit card bill. The festivities last for weeks, beginning well before Christmas, and continuing straight through to the arrival of the Three Kings and the Feast of the Epiphany on January 6. Las Navidades involves a lot more partying and a lot less shopping… — Esmeralda Santiago Copy Share
“There were more fights, more arguments, more yelling in the night, more long absences. Until it seemed as if anything would be better than… — Esmeralda Santiago Copy Share Image
“They have no achievements of their own. They've made nothing, created nothing, worked at nothing. They will leave no trace that they ever existed.… — Esmeralda Santiago Copy Share Image
For me, the person I was becoming when we left was erased, and another one was created. — Esmeralda Santiago Copy Share Image
“How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unknown?” — Esmeralda Santiago Copy Share Image
In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times. — Esmeralda Santiago Copy Share Image
How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unkown? — Esmeralda Santiago Copy Share Image
“It seemed too complicated, as if each one of us were really two people, one who was loved and the official one who, I… — Esmeralda Santiago Copy Share Image
We're always going to have prejudices ... I don't think we can change society. You can only change individual by individual. And you can… — Esmeralda Santiago Copy Share Image
“The family landed in the Western Hemisphere in the person of Roger Blake Wolfe, who arrived with a price on his head.” — James Carlos Blake Copy Share Image
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It was a small town by a small river and a small lake in a small northern part of a Midwest state. There wasn't so much wilderness around you couldn't see the town. But on the other hand there wasn't so much town you couldn't see and feel and touch and smell the wilderness. The town was full of trees.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
“When a naked man shows up on your doorstep with a bear trap clamped around his ankle, it's best just to do what he… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
“My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“There is no man so unsuited for the task of speaking about memory as I am, for I find scarcely a trace of it… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share Image
