Parenting Quote by Jodi Picoult

“Was I? “Oh-kay,” I said slowly, looking between Mom’s red face to Ken’s blank one. “Sorry, Ken, I didn’t mean…” Traitorous tears filled my…

— A.E. Davis

“Hestia stared back into the empty sockets of the blackened skull and now saw that long ago they held eyes, the crying eyes of…

— S.E. Ellis

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

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“I saw the exact moment the light left his eyes and he died and a small part of me went with him.”

— Jodi Taylor

“She watched him recede into the past as he stood...each successive moment of him passing before her eyes and being lost forever.”

— Salman Rushdie

“Lena,” he says at last. “I think your mother is alive.”

— Lauren Oliver

“Do you think you're taking Etta out of here?" "Yes," Kennit called over his shoulder up the sairs. "What about all these dead men?"…

— Robin Hobb

“I missed my mother and Elysius. It wasn't that I wanted them with me at that very moment. I wanted them in the past.…

— Bridget Asher

“She didn't know how to hate her mother yet, but every time she left her father crying in the airport she came that much…

— Ann Patchett

“Being with Ken was like being with a permanently foreign friend. It was impossible to understand them, but all you really needed to do…

— Louise Penny

“I had to explain to him Mom's death, which was always hard to do. It felt like killing her again.”

— Karen Russell

“For a long time he watched her. When she was lost to sight, he was almost a little moved. But that's life, thought death.”

— Anonymous