Parenting Quote by Iain M. Banks

“It was a beautiful voice. He wanted to reply to it. But he couldn’t work out how to. It was very dark. ‘Cheradenine?’ A…

— Iain M. Banks

“Concerned, somehow, but a hopeful voice; a cheerful, even loving voice. He tried to remember his mother. ‘Cheradenine?’ the voice said again.”

— Iain M. Banks

“He laid his hands on her head, pushing back the hood. He began to speak. His voice was soft, and the words were in…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“The live, warm presence of my mother had disappeared. In its place stood this remoteness posing as Mama. Her anxiety was unbearable to me.…

— Vivian Gornick

“His words stayed with her for years. Each night as she lay waiting for sleep, she tried to re-create the evening in her mind…

— Jennifer Haigh

“But then he was awake, his lips forming a half-sleepy greeting, and his hand was already reaching for mine. We lay there, like that,…

— Madeline Miller

“As she stooped over him, her tears fell upon his forehead. The boy stirred, and smiled in his sleep, as though these marks of…

— Charles Dickens

“I breathed in the memory of his lips, the softness of them, and how they felt tracing across my skin, leaving ripples of goosebumps…

— Sarah Alderson

“My mother spoke, alive again inside my brain...She spoke and I listened to her, because I was afraid if I didn't her voice would…

— Anna Quindlen

“He could not remember when anything had felt so young and fresh as her lips. The rain lay, like tears shed for him, upon…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“His voice was different in the small, intimate spaces that existed when they were pressed together like this; it was sweet with a familiar…

— Lauren Gilley

“The tone of voice cut through him like a diamond saw. He could dimly remember being scolded by his mother when he was small;…

— Terry Pratchett