Childhood Quote by Paul Auster

“His mother never gave up on him, even when he lashed out at her, took her money, and failed her in so many ways.…

— Ron Franscell

“He was pleased that she should see death in his face at once. His mother, at the age of sixty, was going to be…

— Flannery O'Connor

“The mother was conflicted between what she knows that what's possible.”

— Brooke Hauser

“She remebered the angry hurt she had felt because his mother had abandoned him as a young boy,and she cried even harder.His mother should…

— Judith McNaught

“She sicker than my mama was when she die. But she more evil than my mama and that keep her alive.”

— Alice Walker

“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

“He remembers noticing his dad's shadow was shorter than the others, and he had a visceral sense his father was weaker than the rest,…

— Jardine Libaire

“It stung, the notion that my child belonged more to her mother than to me, but I learned to accept it.”

— Shulem Deen

“It was Mom whom I could not live without. Fathers, I was convinced, could not replicate the emotional security and nurturing that mothers provided.”

— Leslie Gilbert-Lurie

“Horribly aware of what was happening, conscious, as she had never been before, that it was possible both to love her mother more than…

— Caroline Moorehead

“It occurred to me that I had never seen my mother defeated, even when life presented difficulties and disappointments.”

— Piper Kerman

“His mother had become impossible, as, he supposed, all elderly people were when they refused to accept that their lives had to change.”

— Candace Bushnell