Elements-of-power Quote by Heather James

“I'm very glad my mother left my father, of course, but as I got older it did get harder to valorize that flight. This…

— Gwendoline Riley

“It was easier with Mother--always had been--less complicated, less treacherous. I didn't have to be on my guard so much. I didn't have to…

— Khaled Hosseini And The Mountains Echoed

“It was Mom whom I could not live without. Fathers, I was convinced, could not replicate the emotional security and nurturing that mothers provided.”

— Leslie Gilbert-Lurie

“She was the sort of parent you would want to have living close by, but only on the grounds that she would then never…

— Jasper Fforde

“I was beginning to understand why my mother preferred solitude during the times that burdened her heart.”

— Sue Lynn Tan

“That night she admitted her compulsion to escape. She was worried that if my father drowned, or I disappeared, she would be left with…

— Simon Van Booy

“Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers,…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Why would her mother need a break? And how selfish of her, to take off and not tell anyone,”

— Deanna Lynn Sletten

“stayed with her, that she would think, even for an instant, of not shooting her father as failing him”

— Ann Patchett

“There were a dozen reasons why she might refuse him. But they were all someone else’s reasons. Her mother’s, her peers’, society’s. She’d already…

— Tessa Dare

“She was my mother and she would not leave me. This I had simply accepted and expected. I had no more thanked her for…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Horribly aware of what was happening, conscious, as she had never been before, that it was possible both to love her mother more than…

— Caroline Moorehead