Saving-face Quote by Judy Budnitz

“And as for my mom, whatever happened, whatever her reasons were, they don’t really matter anymore other than as a way to know her…

— Eliza Crewe

“She was my mother and she would not leave me. This I had simply accepted and expected. I had no more thanked her for…

— Khaled Hosseini

“I asked my mother when we first met, but she evaded the answer like she does everything else.”

— Candace Knoebel

“In the silence that followed, I was aware of just how much I wished things were different. I wanted to be able to talk…

— Morgan Matson

“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

“She was your mother and she loved you in a way nobody ever has and nobody ever will and no she's gone.”

— Elan Mastai

“I'm just the reason they married. Mum says I was a surprise. Dad says I was an accident. Truth is ... I am their mistake.”

— Emma Cameron

“And I didn't tell mom what happened. She'd already warned me that bad things could hide in the most unlikely places.”

— Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

“Mom walked out on us, remember? Because she never got over her own baggage, not because of you or me, right?”

— A.S. King

“Do you have any idea how creepy that is, that you were in love with my mother and you're so…all over me?”

— Lili St. Crow

“Don't you find it strange that your mother would leave you?' Becky said. 'I can't imagine my other leaving me.' I'd never thought of…

— Belinda Jeffrey

“He seemed particularly insistent. I both did and didn’t want to be left alone at the house with my mother. There was an aching…

— Danzy Senna