Quote by Ian Cross

“• I’m sick and all I want is for my mommy to come and take care of me. I’m forty-seven.”

— Jill Smokler

“She sounded angry. That was the way she'd been as long as he'd known her. If she became ill, it irritated her. She was…

— Richard Matheson

“He tried to remember her ever being this way before. In her voice--almost overexuberant--was not simply holiday cheer but joyous relief, like some terminally…

— Andre Dubus III

“I’m sorry that you’re sick.” “It’s not your fault.” “I know, but I wish that I could give you more than this.”

— Nicola Yoon

“I thought you said you were okay with turning forty.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

“She raised her voice, reminding him that he was a doctor, that his first priority was to help the sick, and he shot back…

— Basma Abdel Aziz

“I was staring down thirty-five in a few months. While I might have thought forty was old when I was her age, I’d since…

— Marshall Thornton

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

— Sue Monk Kidd

“I always felt like half of my life was hers, but I wonder if she didn’t feel that half my disease was hers, too.”

— Tracy Guzeman

“You were just too young. And in the wrong place at the wrong time in my life." "A likely excuse. I haven't been 'too…

— Sabrina Jeffries

“The hospital fired her ’cause she was sick.”

— Angie Thomas

“I told Mom that maybe I had made a terrible mistake, but mom said sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get…

— Jeannette Walls