Quote by Markus Zusak

“Where is your maman? I don't know. I think we've gone and lost her, Pea. Papa's voice dissolves into the colours behind my eyes.…

— Claire King

“Mama, you know, lost all her enthusiasm for mothering by Baby Number Seven. What a pity she did not lose her enthusiasm for Papa…

— Loretta Chase

“Momma had told me, “See, she looks asleep,” but when I squeezed her hand, her eyes never opened. Daddy carried me out the sanctuary…

— Angie Thomas

“I grab a snap pea and bite off the end of it, and then I pick up my glass of milk. I'm overwhelmed by…

— Janet Gurtler

“Mama operated under the assumption that I was eight years old and incapable of feeding myself. It was physically impossible for her to cross…

— Molly Harper

“Where are we?' the mouse child asked his father. His voice was tiny in the stillness of the night. 'I don't know' the father…

— Russell Hoban

“Burying his face in Emma's neck, Noah's cries quieted as Emma hummed to him. Their food arrived then. "Wanna come to Daddy, Little Man,…

— Katie Ashley

“Earlier, I'd held her papa in one arm and her mama in the other. Each soul was so soft.”

— Markus Zusak

“While Mary brushed my pistachio silk carriage dress, Mama tugged the laces of my corset as tight as they would go. She grunted and…

— Susan Dennard

“Papa was an accordion. But his bellows were all empty. Nothing went in and nothing came out.”

— Markus Zusak

“Papa wasn't like them, with lines like cursive writing up and down their faces.”

— Jane Yolen

“She stood by the fireplace talking, in that beautiful voice which made everything she said sound like a caress, to Papa, who had begun…

— Virginia Woolf