Branches Quote by Mitch Albom

She died as she had been born and as she had lived, in my care, and surrounded by those who loved her.

— Vicki W Fowler

She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence.

— Nicole Krauss

Mothers love you to the end, and she didn't want to hold me back from my livelihood. So I left for a month and…

— Lenny Kravitz

She looked at me, like she was drinking in the fact that I was still here. And I realized I was doing the same…

— Rick Riordan

She wasn't mine. She hadn't been mine for a long time. She shouldn't be here and I shouldn't have asked. So instead of reassuring…

— Abbi Glines

As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to…

— Robin Hobb

But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.

— Meghan O'Rourke

She stood beside me for years, or was it a moment? I cannot remember. Maybe I loved her, maybe I didn't. There was a…

— Mark Strand

She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I…

— Graham Greene

When she died, Mom left me her letters and journals. Windows into things I would have been too young to understand when she was…

— John Dickerson

I had become so insulated in my world as a mother that I didn't know how to pick up the phone and call anybody…

— Peggy Lipton

she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never…

— Sherman Alexie