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“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

“Tell my mother I stopped feeling frightened once I told myself they couldn't inflict half as much pain on me as she suffered when…

— Rolf Hochhuth

“It would be nice, after this was over, to take a long raft trip. Maybe Jen and I could paddle through Westwater and its…

— Erik Storey

“What I really wished I had was a twin, someone who'd cried next to me in the crib, slept beside me, fed from Mother's…

— Khaled Hosseini

“I wished that my own bones were unbound, I wished they were mingling, picked clean by fish, with the bones of another body, a…

— Ali Smith

“I could no more pretend I didn't have a mother than the sea could pretend it had no salt. My mother existed for me…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“I could feel the hard part of Mom very strongly that time. It was like a stone in her that grew bigger every time…

— Kaimana Wolff

“I heard a voice in my head. It said: I would rather be alone than ever be my mother. I will leave before I…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“It was one thing to, she thought, to sit safely alone in the attic, reading the letters of happily married Grandma Jo and think…

— Gabrielle Donnelly

“Mother was comfort. Mother was home. A girl who lost her mother was suddenly a tiny boat on an angry ocean. Some boats eventually…

— Ruta Sepetys

“But the knowing was visceral: if I became a mother, I’d lose myself.”

— Kate Bolick