Parenting Quote by Katie McGarry

“I was always a little girl, lost in Oz, looking for a way to believe that there was no place like home …”

— Kristin Hannah

“coming back, there was no telling what she might do. I felt tears welling up in my eyes. I was stuck in Oz with…

— Danielle Paige

“Oh, she missed herself. It felt like she used to miss Abe, when he was at Harvard and then after they broke up. No,…

— Katharine Noel

“She didn't know how to hate her mother yet, but every time she left her father crying in the airport she came that much…

— Ann Patchett

“Sometimes I caught my mother digging through old photo albums or staring at the wall or out the window. She’d get that look on…

— Sherman Alexie

“Ashley waddled back into the room and dropped into the seat next to me. "What did i miss?" I'd honestly forgotten she existed. Oh,…

— Katie McGarry

“Don't fasten on Dorothy. Only unanswerable longing lies down that road. Gone is gone.”

— Gregory Maguire

“That night she admitted her compulsion to escape. She was worried that if my father drowned, or I disappeared, she would be left with…

— Simon Van Booy

“Hers was an evil-sounding chuckle that Anna loved. The sort of chortle Dorothy might have heard shortly before all hell broke loose in the…

— Nevada Barr

“How had he rehearsed this vitally-important, utterly-critical meeting, again? "Mother, Father, let me introduce -- she's getting away!”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Is it possible that my great-grandmother would not want me to know why and how she left?”

— Gaiutra Bahadur

“But I don't think she ever figured on raising a son by herself. Her family was supposed to form a circle. Now we walk…

— Kendare Blake