Quote by Katie McGarry

“My heart swelled, causing my chest to ache and breathing to become nearly impossiple. Paralyzed by her beaty, i hovered over her. She was…

— Katie McGarry

“had never traveled alone before and I discovered that I liked it. No one in the world knew where I was, no one had…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“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

“Noah?" A welcome voice - not my mother's, but welcome all the same: Echo. A smile spread across my face. This was too good.…

— Katie McGarry

“Did I come into this world thru the womb of my mother the earth just so I could talk and write like everybody else?”

— Jack Kerouac

“I heard my name once more, and now it seemed louder and closer. Turning to the sound, I willed my eyes to open. When…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“I pulled out my bag and examined my mother's picture. I wondered what it had been like to be inside her, just a curl…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“I knew the answer to thay immediately. It was like swimming under the stars, like sleeping outside, like climbing a tree in the dark…

— Morgan Matson

“I closed my eyes and willed my breath to slow, my conscious mind to fold itself inward. I could feel heat pulsing from my…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“I look at my mother, connected by a breath of glimmering hope, her red and shadowed eyes reveal that some element of our whole…

— Alfred Nestor

“In my mind, I took what had just happened to my shoulder, and I put it into a box. A box with a tight…

— Sarah Gailey