Mother Quote by Kate Roth

“No wonder he was so sweet and accommodating. His mother was like a damn fairy flittering around bringing goodness to the world in the…

— Kate Roth

“Through some happy accident of heredity he had escaped his father's tediousness, while retaining a little of his mother's jolly high spirits and humor.…

— William Styron

“Why didn't my father get to give Mom the fairy tale? Why do most people fail to give each other the fairy tale?”

— Matthew Quick

“It dawned on her as she grew older, that fairy tales instilled false hopes in people, and that no white knights existed in this…

— Alexis Lawrence

“The sweet, lovely voices of the children were like honey, like grape wine, intoxicating him, entrancing him, so he couldn’t tell heaven from earth.”

— Lin Zhe

“The thing about fairy tales was having faith in the things that don't come true, and appreciating them when they do.”

— Shey Stahl

“The many faces of my mother. There was nice Mom who didn’t drink and then there was ugly Mom when she was sozzled.”

— Sandi Gamble

“Before he could start asking, a family joined them in the wait for the elevator, the daughters running around, the parents looking like they…

— J.R. Ward

“She admired all these women who were mothers. My God, you had to be devilishly careful not to say the wrong thing.”

— Dörthe Binkert

“Fairy tales were the door to the world of imagination for me as a child, that land I often lived in when real life…

— Regan Walker

“Every night after dinner he honed this skill of enduring a dull thing that brought a parent pleasure. It seemed to him a lifesaving…

— Jonathan Franzen

“In fairy tales they all seem perfect, but really they are just as troubled as we are!”

— Teal Vitler