Mother Quote by Sam J. Miller Download Open image ““(...) And through it all I thought of my mother and the lives she didn’t get to live.”” — Sam J. Miller ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Lives Didn Mother Mother Lives Parenting Thought Thought Mother
“I hadn't thought about Mom as much as I probably should have lately. It was a relief not to have all those emotional waves… — Karen Ann Hopkins Copy Share Image
“I thought about my mother, and the words she said to me almost a lifetime ago. That’s when it clicked: she had asked me… — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
“Sitting there, I wasn’t convinced I’d survive until that day let alone beyond it. I felt the struggle intensifying between my mom and me… — J M Northup Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“In the silence that followed, I was aware of just how much I wished things were different. I wanted to be able to talk… — Morgan Matson Copy Share Image
“I sat there for a moment and thought about my mom. It was her groans of pain that would get me the most. Sometimes… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“It seemed like I had completed a task, overcome an obstacle. I thought about my mother, and the words she said to me almost… — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
“But now that she was dying, I knew everything. My mother was in me already. Not just the parts of her that I knew,… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“It wasn't about flirting with death, like Mom. It was about wanting to live all the way to the seams of life.” — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“Everything about her shredded my heart because she reminded me too much of my mother, and she reminded me too much of my mother's… — Jessica Park Copy Share Image
“{She} considered mentioning...how she, to, was all alone. But it didn't matter. So many stupid ways to live and die. She felt a shift… — Michael Knight Copy Share Image
“I felt hollowed out. My mom's death was not useful. I felt a shot of rage at her, and then imagined those last bloody… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“(…) It would kill her because she’s spent her whole life worrying about How She Messed Up Those Kids, and what better proof of… — Sam J. Miller Copy Share Image
“Depending on what the body you’re born into looks like, you get put in a box marked either Boy or Girl. That box is… — Sam J. Miller Copy Share Image
“I used to imagine Better was a place you could get to. A moment when I would look around and see that Everything Was… — Sam J. Miller Copy Share Image
“Don’t the stars make you feel so small?” Bastien said, and there was a slight roughness around his words from where his lip was… — Sam J. Miller Copy Share Image
“She thinks I’m a child who needs to be protected from the horrors of grown-ups, because she somehow forgot that the world of children… — Sam J. Miller Copy Share Image
“Every superhero, every Chosen One, goes through a painful and difficult process of Becoming. On this, all the relevant literature is in agreement. Ask… — Sam J. Miller Copy Share Image
“This is the hardest rule. The one I still have to keep repeating. The one I accept, on an intellectual level, but still cannot… — Sam J. Miller Copy Share Image
“I wrapped myself in a thick wide cloud of pheromone smell, a fog that said, Do not look here, there is nothing to see,… — Sam J. Miller Copy Share Image
“Straight men will insult and assault and beat and kill gay men because they are terrified. Because masculinity is the foundation they built their… — Sam J. Miller Copy Share Image
“Without your problems, you wouldn’t be who you are. You would be someone else. Someone significantly less awesome.” — Sam J. Miller Copy Share Image
“Should you ever need a reminder of what a savage animal your body is—should you ever start to doubt that you are chained to… — Sam J. Miller Copy Share Image
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
My mother was strong-willed, demanding, and very supportive all at the same time. — Michael Spence Copy Share Image
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I would give anything to be able to kick a ball with my son or read the kids a bedtime story. — Rob Burrow Copy Share Image
One of the ways that I discovered my confidence and my ability to overpower is becoming a mother. Suddenly, my world wasn't about myself… — Lights Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
