Quote by Shalom Auslander

“In my diary I wrote, “I fear my father’s anger, but I fear my mother’s love.”

— Mary Gaitskill

“He looked at the books, and she wanted to say, 'Stop that,' as though he were reading her diary.”

— Elizabeth Strout

“My mother used to read me stories. They ended happily, but before that, there was usually sadness or difficulty. I never understood why they…

— Jerry Thompson

“She read it again. It was fascinating and surreal, like reading a diary that had been hers when she was a teenager, secret and…

— Lisa Genova

“The sudden loss of her father was like living with a wound that would never heal, yet her memories of him were fading more…

— Frank Beddor

“Her mother was by turns tender and pathetic and terrifying, broken in a way that no one, in that time or place, had any…

— Karen Abbott

“I have looked at my father many times and wondered how he could stand knowing he was my mother’s ruin. He was too weak…

— Ayana Mathis

“At that moment, sitting on that park bench, The Writer was overcome by an indefinable sadness not completely ascribable to the state in which…

— Filippo Bologna

“It was a long story, and sometimes she grew quiet and cried - and during those times he leaned over to wipe away her…

— Sarah J. Maas

“Her look was easy to read—she couldn’t understand, we’d always been able to talk, she was hurt. Mothers can give all of that to…

— Deb Caletti

“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

“She mothered them. She mothered him. He hated it and loved it. He wished her quiet and prayed she would never stop talking. She…

— Amy Harmon