Parenting Quote by Martin Cruz Smith

“And yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend,…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one. ”

— khaled hosseini

“My mother had become a obsession for me, a religion, and the very thought of referring to another woman as Mother seems sacrilegious, a…

— Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

“When Father brought us here to see Mother all those years ago, he told us that she wouldn't leave our minds, that she would…

— Sarah Schmidt

“She knew nothing of the massacre that went on around her, but when she released the wail of a broken hearted mother, one man…

— Elizabeth Bourgeret

“We hadn’t spoken one word to each other since the death glare last night, and I couldn’t help but check both of her hands…

— Laurel Ulen Curtis

“She'd never been big on church before, but as soon as we landed on cancer planet she went so over-the-top Jesucristo that I think…

— Junot Díaz

“Life was brutal for her. She hated the heat and the dust—the lack of friendship and lack of respect from other women who knew…

— Brian Arthur Levene

Written on her tombstone: "I told you I was sick.

— Erma Bombeck

“I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.”

— Laura Whitcomb

“Her mother had told her the mortal world was pocked with memorials and monuments to loss. They build with steel and stone and promise…

— Leigh Bardugo

“It hadn't occurred to me that my mother would die. Until she was dying, the thought had never entered my mind. She was monolithic…

— Cheryl Strayed