Mother Quote by Paddy O'Reilly

“They were with their mother, and so they were acting like children.”

— Emma Straub

“I’ll name my firstborn child Squiblob, after his mother.”

— Jarod Kintz

“They were the sisterhood: their mothers at a younger age.”

— Ann Brashares

“Then one last thought tugs at me, so I turn back. "So why did you name me Tamsin?" I ask. "You always promised to…

— Carolyn MacCullough

“Now, even as her family grieved, she was giving birth again.”

— Mark Oristano

“individual family. It showed an infant’s face blown up so big it was blurry.”

— Lisa See

“everyone to know about our baby.”

— Cathy Gillen Thacker

“You’ve never called the baby by name before.” This earned her a twitch of his lips, maybe impatience, maybe humor. “We’re drinking companions now.…

— Grace Burrowes

“Baby’s OK. It’s the wife and her mother. I don’t have the Gaelic and all they do is blether away. Sounds like breaking glass…

— Aline Templeton

“She had been born with a different name, to a woman with laughing eyes and warmly whispered words of love who’d died degraded and…

— C.S. Harris

“Sometimes he'd write my mother's new name under his on a scrap of paper...then, the one that hurt her teeth to see, Mrs. Brock…

— Laura Kasischke

“When things went to shit, girls called their mothers”

— Joshilyn Jackson