Children Quote by Megan Mayhew Bergman

“Well--" My mother paused, and her tone was reflective in that way that is inevitably sad, because the past is sad. "What I remember,"…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me. She has…

— Gillian Flynn

“Was she sad? She was angry. Furious at the smallness of her mother's life.”

— Celeste Ng

“As she spoke, I wanted to cry, because sometimes it's just so damn hard to be a mother. We have to wait and wait…

— Lisa See

“I was such a quiet kid, so shy and calm and in my own head. Of course I knew about being sad. Maybe that's…

— Nina LaCour

“I went into motherhood with some pretty romantic notions about what being a mom would be like. I certainly thought that raising kids would…

— Debra Sansing Woods

“I had wondered if all mothers shared a fear of how vibrant and alive their children were.”

— Alice Sebold

“She wished, fleetingly, that her mother was not her mother, and for this she felt not guilt and sadness but a single emotion, a…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“A mother's happiness; something you recognize and then forget; it didn't seem to matter much, though it spread through our bodies.”

— Mona Simpson

“I just know that, at that moment, I remember feeling like the world had turned itself inside out. It's the child who's supposed to…

— Jodi Picoult

“I don't know what happened to your parents or why they did what they did. But in all the world, I could have wished…

— John Stephens

“A: Funny about my mother. All my life, from the time I was just a little kid, I thought of her as a sad…

— Robert Cormier