Quote by Jamie Schlosser

“Her expression was that of a woman with multiple children who was no longer surprised by anything they did, up to and including arriving…

— Gail Carriger

“Oh Google, she thought I was suicidal.”

— Rae Mariz

“Children were not pets, not furniture, not items put on earth to bring pleasure to people who owned them, she raged to herself.”

— C.J. Box

“As far as she could see, children mostly argued, shouted, ran around very fast, laughed loudly, picked their noses, got dirty and sulked.”

— Terry Pratchett

“She was always saying, 'Fuck this school,' or 'I can't wait until I get out of here.' But so did lots of kids.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“It baffled her, the world. She did not want to leave it yet.”

— Elizabeth Strout

“She spent so much of her new life wanting to get a break from the kids, then the rest of her time impatient to…

— Chris Pavone

“But I was not especially skilled at minding children for long spells; I grew bored, perhaps like my own mother. After I spent too…

— Lorrie Moore

“It was funny, in her old age, to look back and see for how short a period her nest had NOT been empty. Relatively…

— Anne Tyler

“She loved the library and was anxious to worship the lady in charge. But the librarian had other things on her mind. She hated…

— Betty Smith

“Suddenly, as they walked with their buckets, it was not the child in each face that she sought, but the Wonder that had raised…

— Enid Bagnold

“Mother was like this sometimes. Conversations became riddles with traps in them, and your answers had consequences.”

— Frances Hardinge