Parenting Quote by O. Henry

“She was closed up like a fist. It her very own memory, not theirs, her very own real and terrible and lonely and dark…

— Gayl Jones

“His mother stood before him like a monument. He saw her great outline through the blur of his weakness and his passion. She made…

— Mervyn Peake

“Gabito would say later that he had no memory of his mother. She had left him before he could retain any memories at all.”

— Gerald Martin

“He wore the memory of her embrace like armor, and though he knew it would not save his life, it would be all that…

— Andrew Levkoff

“She knew she'd wounded him when he'd least expected it, and her satisfaction lasted until the door had closed behind him. Once he was…

— Sharon Kay Penman

“She stared at him breathlessly, seething. It was like hurling herself against a wall of granite, she thought disjointedly; fighting against him hurt her.…

— Teresa Denys

“Again, Pyotr knew a pang. He saw her heavy with child, bowed over an oven, sitting before a loom, the grace gone...”

— Katherine Arden

“He hopes she knows that her words aren't being ignored. He was interrogated and had to play it safe so that the enemy wouldn't…

— Yanohu shwiggenstien

“Her reaction signaled that his memory had the power to destroy.”

— Ronlyn Domingue

“of his. The same earnestness that had stopped her from killing that insane Joruus C’baoth back on Jomark. ”

— Timothy Zahn

“She braced one palm on the wall and used the other to bring him inside her more forcefully, tearing away the last bit of…

— Cari Quinn

“An even worse memory followed: Gaëtan. He had abandoned her after all; it filled her with the kind of bone-deep disappointment she knew so…

— Kristin Hannah