Fall Quote by Jerry Spinelli

Otherwise, three little words would have leaked from his mouth. And undoubtedly doomed him in ways he couldn’t even guess at. Bad time. Bad…

— J.R. Ward

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto…

— Bible

“Did other people’s mothers vanish into holes in the ground during their midlife crises?”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“They had gone forth together into their life of sorrow, and they would never more see the sunshine undimmed by remembered cares. They had…

— George Eliot

They say that at the mountain pass he looked back at his kingdom, his beautiful kingdom, and wept, and his mother told him to…

— Philippa Gregory

“Twice as many paths to trouble,' their mothers would whisper. As though their daughters loving men and women meant they wanted all of them…

— Anna-Marie McLemore

…for no matter how lost and soiled and worn-out wandering sons may be, mothers can forgive and forget every thing as they fold them…

— Louisa May Alcott

“May not and ought not the children of these fathers rightly say: "Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were…

— William Bradford

“And blood, in all the cities through which he passed, ran down. There seemed no door, anywhere, behind which blood did not call out,…

— James Baldwin

“All the words he'd stored up had tumbled into the great chasm beneath them”

— Carey Jane Clark

“The Ancient Desert Fathers, when they were disconsolate and without hope, would repeat one word, over and over, as a kind of soothing mantra.…

— Gregory Boyle

“…but the truly frightening thing was to learn that his mother was no stronger than he was, that the blows of the world hurt…

— Paul Auster