Asks Quote by Megan Chance

“…how overwhelming the feelings of love and terror, the desperate desire to protect. How much stronger would those feelings be if it were her…

— Kate Atkinson

“I originally feared she might be dead, which felt like a sealed book that I would never be able to read. To have a…

— Janet Louise Stephenson

“The mother in her believed that the love she had for her daughter was safe from the mayhem of her mind, because it lived…

— Lisa Genova (Author

“Perhaps the loaded question is: How often is maternal self-sacrifice really only masochistic martyrdom, destructive to the mother and destructive to the child as…

— Natalie Shainess

“But there have been times since, in my manhood, many times there have been, when I have thought, Is it possible, among the possibilities…

— Charles Dickens

Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by; so they stayed away for…

— Anonymous

“She was reduced to the dependency of an infant, too terrified of life itself to find solace anywhere but in the familiar succoring breast…

— Dean Koontz

“As Miriam released my hand I felt that she and Midwife Bell had returned to a more primitive world, where men never intruded and…

— J.G. Ballard

“She is softhearted yet strong willed. She is compassionate yet unwavering in principle. She is a loving mother, yet she risked my life to…

— J.L. Witterick

In the end, the best part of the whole book [The Nightingale ] to me was the research, reading about the courageous, ordinary French…

— Megan Chance

“Because I'd rather fell guilty for the rest of my life than for her to have felt a second's fear - Tess's Mother”

— Rosamund Lupton

“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