Calling Quote by Peter De Vries

“Have you ever closed your eyes and listened to the sound of your own mother's voice?”

— Anonymous

I remember being two, maybe, and hearing my mum's typewriter in the other room and sticking my hands under the door and screaming, 'Mum!…

— Zoe Kazan

I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words I'd written to her over all of those…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear…

— Tori Amos

“I was shaking when I asked my mother, “Do you think you eat enough?” She was silent for a long time until she said…

— Eula Biss

“Mom turned to me, puzzled. In sign language, she asked, “What was Grandpa saying in the kitchen?” My heart froze.”

— Lou Ann Walker

I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.

— Francis Spufford

Mama had her little cough. Once or twice, some quiet sobbing, out of sight... Or the slamming of kitchen cupboard doors. That was her…

— David Small

It was a conversation that I didn't want to have with my parents to say mom and dad I missed my flight....

— Manti Te'o

“Sometimes, in the stillness of my room, my mom’s voice came to me, repeating things she’d said for months. Like, “My skin is melting…

— Laura Anderson Kurk

“My mother's footsteps Were so quiet I barely heard her leave”

— John Green

“I've been talking to myself a lot lately. I don't know what that's about, but my mother was the same way. She hated to…

— Dan Chaon