Mother Quote by Richard Yates

“if Rachel were ever to think, feel, laugh, or express herself, instead of dropping milk from a height as though to see what kind…

— Virginia Woolf

“The girls were full of pity and admiration, and affirmed that when their mother understood Rachel a little better she would like her. "My…

— Emily Eden

Rachel, you take her,” my mother said, clearly uncomfortable. “She might like you.” “No. Mom, no!” I protested, but it was my mother we…

— Kim Harrison

“She used to think that only parents can understand the sort of love that swallows you up, but now she wondered whether it was…

— Paula Hawkins

“mother into leaving twelve and a half million dollars to the Foundation of Being. And not a damned thing to the only child she’d…

— Anne Stuart

“Rachel was a girl who depended on small, recurrent rituals - that was one of the things he'd come to know about her, and…

— Richard Yates

“admit it to her dad, who would just take what she said at face value, rather than her mother, who would listen too intently…

— Liane Moriarty

“A young girl's mother is her natural refuge in every perplexity.”

— Elizabeth Prentiss

“If there was one thing she'd learned from her parents, it's that pleasure was sacred.”

— Stephanie Julian

“I can’t worry about her feelings right now because she has disrespected Rachel. I won’t have her coming at my love in front of…

— Genevieve Woods

“She lived here for a while until she couldn't stand having strangers stand outside and shout, "Rachel! Rachel, send down your chair" any longer.”

— patricia c. wrede

“No mother is ever, completely, a child’s idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as…

— Margaret Atwood