Mother Quote by Karen Abbott

“She limped, unaided around the house, like a bird with its wing broken. Tame, because it couldn’t fly away. All her time was taken…

— Joan London

“I lost my mother when I was three years old. She had some small injury – a piece of metal pierced her foot –…

— William Dalrymple

“She was damaged and broken and there wasn’t any kind of glue in the world that could fix her.”

— Julie Bale

“Her look was easy to read—she couldn’t understand, we’d always been able to talk, she was hurt. Mothers can give all of that to…

— Deb Caletti

“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

“The psycho-babble lavished on her by her mother in a prior life found her, whispering of trauma and coping, how this was not her…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Her mother used to say a woman's life was suffering, but that was the last thing she wanted for this sweet girl who had…

— Min Jin Lee

“...everything had changed, and she had crumpled in front of me, and become wholly broken and lost...”

— Susan Hill

“There were other times when she was so shattered by ideas that she could do nothing worth while; when they trampled over her like…

— Willa Cather

“Why did she feel like she was still broken?”

— Allison Brennan

“She had climbed into his turmoil and made herself at home, fixing him one brick at a time from the inside, powerless to stop…

— V. Theia

“She knew she couldn’t escape unscathed, and the trauma would take her a long time to get past. And she might never fully heal…

— Cheyenne McCray