Parenting Quote by Herman Koch

“Neither my mother nor I had acknowledged it at breakfast, as if even the mention of passing time would crack the fragile votive that…

— Skye Warren

“He saw that his mother was dwelling in an alternate time, a more bearable reality.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“It seemed to him that nothing would ever be explained, and that all of a sudden each day was slipping away, that time was…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“He wondered if her spy had stumbled upon his last night. When did he start thinking like his mother?”

— Johanna Lindsey

“If he was going to be given news about his mother, it had to come not in bits and pieces, but as a comprehensive…

— Haruki Murakami

“I suspected (and still do) that I would love being a mother...”

— Kate Bolick

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

— Rick Riordan

“When I was being forgiving, I said that my mother was simply exhausted. I suspected, though, she was simply mean.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“She had a stare that stretched to infinity. She was, in that moment, not my mother but something separate from me.”

— Alice Sebold

“Mother is fading for him, her face receding into shadows, her memory diminishing with each passing day, leaking like sand from a fist.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“When he spoke, there was an odd vulnerability to his deep voice. As if he were letting her peek inside one of the dark…

— Lara Adrian

“Time came slowly and passed slowly, so leisurely that at times he could swear it had stealthily doubled back on itself.”

— Haruki Murakami