Quote by Gabrielle Zevin

“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

“Let them look all they want. Let them go ahead and look at me, the luckiest mother alive.”

— Stephanie Nielson

“She could see that like most people in the world, her mother just wanted to be loved.”

— Rebecca Rasmussen

“It surprised me to want her [my mother] the most, but I'd never been miserable without her.”

— Jim Lynch

“Mama stared at me not with sadness, but with pleading. She was thinner than I'd ever allowed myself to notice, looking more like a…

— Ami McKay

“The way is a great mother, empty yet inexhaustible. She gives birth to worlds unending. Ever present within you, manifest her as you will.”

— Stifyn Emrys

“No mother is ever, completely, a child’s idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as…

— Margaret Atwood

“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

“Gaining a mom, even one who had waited fifty-odd years to reveal herself... that wasn't something to throw away lightly.”

— Rick Riordan

“She used to think that only parents can understand the sort of love that swallows you up, but now she wondered whether it was…

— Paula Hawkins

“When does it stop-the longing to be mothered?”

— Emery Lord

“The mother needs mothering too.”

— Susan Schneider