Parenting Quote by Robert Bloch

“What does it do to a girl who knows her mother is a murderer?”

— Gillian Flynn

“I had to explain to him Mom's death, which was always hard to do. It felt like killing her again.”

— Karen Russell

“Come to think, perhaps being nearly killed wasn't always a misfortune-so long as you didn't actually die of it.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“If it was killing-and it was- then I thought it not murder, but a justifiable homicide, undertaken in desperate self defense.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“You can blame your mother, and she can blame hers. Leastways sooner or later it's the fault of somebody who's dead.”

— Lionel Shriver

“It hadn't occurred to me that my mother would die. Until she was dying, the thought had never entered my mind. She was monolithic…

— Cheryl Strayed

“Tragedy made you petty and spiteful. It didn’t give you any great knowledge or insight. She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except…

— Liane Moriarty

“I think much of her - I mean my mother - and of how alike we were, and how we were both destroyed by…

— Michael Cox

“I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.”

— Oscar Wilde

“I’m glad you think that murder is bad because of how someone can use it against you,”

— T.J. Klune

“You are not a murderer. I find it difficult to think of that as a personality flaw.”

— Marissa Meyer

“The murder was terrible. The betrayal was worse.”

— Martin Woods