Life Quote by Meghan O'Rourke

“My mother's story continues to haunt me, it will until the day I die. My guilt and personal anguish is a good thing. It…

— M.J. Burke Sr

“I feel like people are only really dead once you stop learning about them. This is why it is important to me to keep…

— Liz Moore

“I had hoped to make her strong and healthy, and now she may be too weak herself after this slow death, like my father's…

— Sylvia Plath

“From then on, I was terrified that I or one of my parents were going to die. My mother worried me the most. She…

— Nicole Krauss

“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

“My mother has lived every day of her life as if it were preparation for some kind of crisis.”

— Mavis Gallant

“My mother picked me up in her arms, touching my checks comforting my distress. I stared into her eyes and held her hair in…

— Joseph McGinnis

A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up…

— Meghan O'Rourke

“The way is a great mother, empty yet inexhaustible. She gives birth to worlds unending. Ever present within you, manifest her as you will.”

— Stifyn Emrys

“The live, warm presence of my mother had disappeared. In its place stood this remoteness posing as Mama. Her anxiety was unbearable to me.…

— Vivian Gornick

“To be a mother is to live in fear. Fear of death, of sickness, of loss, of accidents, of strangers, of the Black Man,…

— Joanne Harris

“I missed the mother I’d never known and mourned for her suffering now. Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an…

— Stephenie Meyer