Parenting Quote by Rivers Solomon

“It was only after her death that I realized who she was: the apparently magical force at the center of our family who'd kept…

— Cheryl Strayed

“Are you the one named Alyse? For he calls that name in his sleep.” “No, that is his beloved sister, dead these past three…

— R.L. LaFevers Dark Triumph

“Everything about my mother was a source of prepubescent agony. On the low end of the Mortification Scale there was her name: Floncey.”

— Jerry Stahl

“What is your name?" he asked softly. She winced, knowing what was to come, "Calpurnia." She closed her eyes again, embarrassed by the extravagant…

— Sarah MacLean

“I lost the name my mom had so carefully chosen and became a medical term.”

— Mariana Zapata

“Don't get me wrong. The good part of Mom's life was shrinking down to nothing, and the hard parts were about all that remained.…

— Meg Federico

“It had come as a relief when she had been forced to go into the hospital in Emporia, where she could be given drugs…

— Nancy Pickard

“Her name is Portia”

— William Shakespeare

Lilith: Oh, but your heart grows cold. A north wind blows and carries down the distant... Rose? The Doctor: Oooh, big mistake! Because that…

— Gareth Roberts

“A terrible panic that had no name came over her as she realized that many of the sweet babies in the world were born…

— Betty Smith

“The mother dead these fourteen years did incubate in her own bosom the creature who would carry her off.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“Miss Martin," he said. "How on earth did you get a name like Isabella?" Just one of the many things that he'd wondered about…

— Mia Ryan