Alive Quote by Mitch Albom

I felt I couldn't be a good mom anymore, but I didn't want my children to grow up without a mom. I felt I…

— Susan Smith

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

I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved…

— Billy Corgan

I felt like a failure, like somehow my self-worth was tied to my ability to procreate. I didn't feel like I could talk about…

— Virginia Williams

I had to force myself not to be overly protective because I had lost one child.

— Diane Ladd

I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a…

— Andrew Solomon

Then came nights when, lying awake beside my final wife, I would spend too much time putting my finger on what was wrong. I…

— Gary Lutz

My mother wanted to shrink from my clinging, but did not.

— Mason Cooley

I couldn't explain the feeling,i felt as helpless as a child,cold and alone,fell down on my knees as I was begging her to stay…

— Fena Ramasilo

One of my moments of coming to writing, of needing to write to attempt to create myself, to attempt to absolve and understand my…

— Kate Zambreno

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. My whole life sort of ended when my…

— Cheryl Strayed

For years and years, I convinced myself that I was unbreakable, an animal with an animal strength or something not human at all. Me,…

— Dorothy Allison