Parenting Quote by Joe Hill

“Mothering, she learned the hard way, was about loss as well as love.”

— Attica Locke

“Horribly aware of what was happening, conscious, as she had never been before, that it was possible both to love her mother more than…

— Caroline Moorehead

“She used to think that only parents can understand the sort of love that swallows you up, but now she wondered whether it was…

— Paula Hawkins

“What else happened?' she asked, not because she was particularly interested, but because one must talk to one's mother when she came to visit…

— Monica Dickens

“What did she care what became of this world when her loved ones were dead and gone?”

— Allie Burke

“Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood.”

— Lisa Unger

“The mother needs mothering too.”

— Susan Schneider

“She missed most of all the feeling of having a mother.”

— Susan Ornbratt

“I hadn't thought about Mom as much as I probably should have lately. It was a relief not to have all those emotional waves…

— Karen Ann Hopkins

“For the first time in probably the entire decade that had passed since I had seen or spoken to my own mother, I thought…

— Gabrielle Hamilton

“This, I finally realized, was how Mom was able to focus when I was not. It was how she was able to be present…

— Will Schwalbe

“She supposed this was the real definition of a mother – a woman who willingly allows her heart to break over and over again…

— Rhian J. Martin