Acceptance Quote by Madeleine L'Engle

“It was funny, in her old age, to look back and see for how short a period her nest had NOT been empty. Relatively…

— Anne Tyler

“She had an image of her unborn child, its head up under her heart, its ear pressed to the wall of her flesh, treading…

— Alice McDermott

“He kept thinking about Mary. What a fool he'd been to let her go. To think, with the thoughtless assurance of youth, that the…

— Richard Matheson

“She'd had a glimpse of a possible future-the pretty cottage, the garden full of flowers and vegetables, bread in the oven, a bowl of…

— Kate Atkinson

“As she looked me up and down, I felt like a daughter returning from summer camp to a mother who had worried unnecessarily. Except…

— Vanessa Diffenbaugh

“Maybe that was why she was helping Madeleine. She was a manipulative bitch, but Dess couldn't imagine living in any other reality than the…

— Scott Westerfeld

“The love of a foster mother for her charge appears absolutely irrational.”

— Winston Churchill

“I lay awake long into the night, obsessing over Lucy's failings. Never mind the drugs and adultery; she seemed to lack the most basic…

— James Whitfield Thomson

“With a baby, I’d have something to show for all this. I’d have a reason. At the least, I’d have something to leave behind.”

— Adam Johnson

“Because it was just too creepy to consider the alternative: nothing changing at all, everything shrinking into the sad belated recognition that the best…

— Tom Perrotta

“Now, he realized that he’d missed out on spending time with them. He should have taken vacation time to be home with the kids.…

— Deanna Lynn Sletten