Love Quote by Jonathan Dunne

“Mama and I sat on a burping bus full of chickens in cages, and round-eyed babies on round mothers' laps. (The Pinata-Maker's Daughter)”

— Eileen Granfors

“Mama says I am getting a special No-Poison gift tonight." She pats my forehead. "I think it was you, wasn't it, Papa?" And I…

— Ruby Dixon

When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the…

— Katherine Dunn

“Mama operated under the assumption that I was eight years old and incapable of feeding myself. It was physically impossible for her to cross…

— Molly Harper

“Mama only snorted. A terse, ironic half laugh, the kind of angry chortle that powered Mama through her daily drudgery, as if it were…

— Stefan Merrill Block

“Dreamed of maman again. She was telling me—O cruelty!—that I didn’t really love her. But I took it calmly, because I was so sure…

— Roland Barthes

“are farmers and they keep trying to breathe, keep the body moving to keep the soul from atrophying. Mama cries when she strings”

— Ann Voskamp

“It's almost August, and the last swarm of lovebugs swirls around me, their tiny connected bodies a tragedy. They're born, they fuck, they die…

— Shaun David Hutchinson

“Once Mamaw's eased her body onto the seat, pinning me in so tightly that a seat belt would just be redundant, we head out…

— Alecia Whitaker

“They were eating in the kitchen. Looking at the spoonfuls of pea soup entering Mama’s mouth, she decided to shift her focus to Papa.…

— Markus Zusak

“Just know that there's bad men in the world, and dying fast by your mother is a better way than theirs.”

— Mindy McGinnis

“Your mummy and daddy love you very much,’ she’d say. ‘But people can’t fry potatoes after they’re dead.”

— Morris Gleitzman