Equipment Quote by Maureen Johnson

“Her mother was by turns tender and pathetic and terrifying, broken in a way that no one, in that time or place, had any…

— Karen Abbott

She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.

— Sarah Addison Allen

“As someone who had faced the harsh reality of her parents' divorce and experienced the fallout from that situation,”

— Joe Allan

She wasn't that tough on me, but I think she was often a little frightened - being a single parent. So it begets this…

— Ashley Judd

Even with everything broken and decided inside her she couldn't quite allow herself to disappear for good.

— John Green

“Now her life was under attack, and she [Kit] was shocked to find how fragile everything she'd built really was. She was dumbfounded, too…

— Vicki Pettersson

She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“She could be a pain in the ass, but she was one gutsy chick. Her kids were lucky to have a mother like her.…

— Jim Butcher

Beyond a certain point, that was all a mother could do for her children - Hang around long enough to drive them crazy.

— J. A. Jance

She remembered when they were kids and he'd caught the rock that the bullies had thrown at her. At six, she'd considered him a…

— C.C. Hunter

She had to face the fact that she couldn't protect everyone she loved. She couldn't solve every problem.

— Rick Riordan