Parenting Quote by Lorrie Moore

“You were better to the ones that were worse for you. And worse to the one that was better for you.”

— pleasefindthis

“a mother, don’t you want your children to be better than you are?”

— E.N. Joy

“They would face many more hardships in the days to come. They wouldn’t be perfect and neither would their marriage. But they could still…

— Jody Hedlund

“I wish I could have been better for her, more of what she deserved. She was a great mom, but that wasn’t me”

— Bry Ann

“It struck me as funny that she was on the other side of the world having the exact same realization as I was: that…

— Caitlyn Duffy

“Everyone was dressed in his or her best, but some people's best was better than others'.”

— Daniel O'Malley

“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”

— Holly Black

“most of all, she’d learned that she had to rely on herself. Certainly her father and her sister couldn’t be counted on.”

— Kristin Hannah

“So they had all had more troubles than she. Did that really make them superior? If two men were walking along the street and…

— Elizabeth Harrower

“But here's the deal: when we face the worst that's in us, somehow we become better than we are - better than we ever…

— Nancy Rue

“Few sons are like their fathers--most are worse, few better.”

— Homer

“She knew this transition was not about becoming someone better, but about finally allowing herself to become who she'd always been.”

— Amy Rubin