Parenting Quote by Sarah Schmidt

“When death comes, she said, all that matters is this: to be next to one another. My mother was wearing a silk dress, and…

— Hannah Tinti

“The man who told my mother that I am dead while alive is indirectly asking for her death.”

— Anthony Ugochukwu O. Aliche

“My mother's story continues to haunt me, it will until the day I die. My guilt and personal anguish is a good thing. It…

— M.J. Burke Sr

“His mother is dead, yet she has never not been, in theory, at his shoulder. He wants her not to have known and suffered…

— Graham Swift

“The woman on the bed was old, her life was fading as the mist rose. She thought of her mother as already in the…

— James Baldwin

“Now hear a new truth. The Great Mother Herself will be forced to hide from those who are coming. She will seem to disappear…

— Barbara Ardinger

“I remember my mother telling me earlier that we are nothing more than our stories. I look at the masses of dead flesh, at…

— Carrie Ryan

“She stared at her father's lifeless body, and the thoughts she could not voice dissolved into her blood, where they would stay with her…

— Cixin Liu

“I don't give a damn What anybody says- If you try To bend your mind that far, It disturbs your guts Which lie right…

— Kathy Evert

“My mother was from here. I can feel her in the walls, in the air. I can feel her settled inside me, never to…

— Veronica Roth

“I feel like people are only really dead once you stop learning about them. This is why it is important to me to keep…

— Liz Moore

“My mother picked me up in her arms, touching my checks comforting my distress. I stared into her eyes and held her hair in…

— Joseph McGinnis