Family Quote by John Green

“My mother sighed, making me feel that I was placing an intolerable burden on her, and yet making me resent having to feel this…

— Margaret Laurence

“Then, I heard the pounding again—and worse, my whole bed shook violently. Someone was kicking it. Opening my eyes again, I turned and found…

— Richelle Mead

“My eyes flickered back and forth. Sweat beaded on my forehead and I felt the fluid suffuse my palms, a bastion of warm comfort…

— Wonderwall123

“She was a dangerous, dangerous girl. A plague. A Mountain of Adamant who tore the iron from ships, sinking them to their watery graves…

— Renee Ahdieh

“Doctor Nolan had said, quite bluntly, that a lot of people would treat me gingerly, or even avoid me, like a leper with a…

— Sylvia Plath

“The tear on my mother’s cheek got larger and larger. It detached from her face and became a shiny globe, widening outward like an…

— Fred Chappell

“The live, warm presence of my mother had disappeared. In its place stood this remoteness posing as Mama. Her anxiety was unbearable to me.…

— Vivian Gornick

“My blood runs cold. Her savage stare and bloodied hands leave no doubts in my mind as she glares up at us from across…

— Mark Noce

“A steely look of anger flared in my mother’s eyes, and I thought, just maybe, I was leaving her in good hands after all.…

— Rick Riordan

“my mother sensed a war in her womb, and so she raised me to fight.”

— Hafsa Atique Birth of a Daughter

“I wanted my mother to love me. Despite all the torture and brutality.”

— Wendy Hoffman

“In the beginning, she had hauted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my…

— John Green