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“Mama stared at me not with sadness, but with pleading. She was thinner than I'd ever allowed myself to notice, looking more like a…

— Ami McKay

“Dad used to tell Mama he hurt us because he loved us too much. She’d sit in her rocker and he’d kneel at her…

— Natalie C. Parker

“Ain't nothing more important than loving your mama. Even if you can't understand her. Love her. That's all you gotta do.”

— Julie Cantrell

“The odd thing about Mama was that she liked to think of herself as a doomy sort of person, but there was a natural…

— Eva Rice

“You're not to cry for him,' ordered Mama. Her next words had no sense either. 'He's out of it now and maybe he's luckier…

— Betty Smith

“But once in a while one loses his heart and once I think I did too, but never Mama. Her heart stays right in…

— Tupelo Hassman

“She might be frightened out of her wits and confused as hell, but she was a Southern girl, born and bred. Mama would fly…

— Tonya Burrows

“Mama had indeed risen up with a ferocity I didn’t think she possessed. I’d been wrong about her my whole life. Her quietude was…

— Marie Benedict

“Whenever Momma breaks a name down like that, you better hope it's not yours.”

— Angie Thomas

“Mama wasn’t Mama anymore, she was Mother, usually followed by a “pallease!”

— Katherine Allred

“regardless of whether he was right or not. “Did momma call you?” Keyshawn stuck his damn giraffe neck in the doorway. “Naw,” I fibbed.…

— Anonymous

“Then I looked right at Mama, for the first time in what seemed like forever, and she wasn't looking at me, but into me.…

— Katherine Hannigan