Bear Quote by Frances Hardinge

“I asked my mother when we first met, but she evaded the answer like she does everything else.”

— Candace Knoebel

“I hesitated, because this question sounded like a trap. A woman trap. The most perilous of all traps.”

— Penny Reid

“Moms were psychic and evil.”

— Gwenda Bond

“What about your mum? She got taken away. Mine too, I said. There was nothing special about that. It happened all the time.”

— Judy Budnitz

“What else happened?' she asked, not because she was particularly interested, but because one must talk to one's mother when she came to visit…

— Monica Dickens

“Anyway it was an idea of mother's and she often used to repeat it, that you ended up getting used to everything.”

— Albert Camus

“I'm a mother," said her mother, in her foodless flat where the dust did not dare to settle, "and I know what I know.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Just remember, your mother doesn't let things happen to her. When something tries to ruin her life, she drags it into the street.”

— Kiera Cass

“Once again I had asked an innocent question, and because of it, I was banished from the conversation.”

— John Grisham

“Well, your mother has her own way of dealing with information.”

— Richard Yates

“In the silence that followed, I was aware of just how much I wished things were different. I wanted to be able to talk…

— Morgan Matson

“All these stupid old people. Had every last one of them met, heard of, gossiped about, or smelled her mom in the distance? Way…

— Thea Harrison