Parenting Quote by Sharon Creech Walk Two Moons

“I am not my mother. I love her, but I am not her.”

— Michelle Zink

“Tears slid down my cheeks. Their source must move closer to the eyes in mothers.”

— Janet Benton

“I know there’s something troubling you. I’m not going to ask what it is, if you don’t want to tell me. But remember that…

— Erin Hunter

“It was Mom whom I could not live without. Fathers, I was convinced, could not replicate the emotional security and nurturing that mothers provided.”

— Leslie Gilbert-Lurie

“She didn't know how to hate her mother yet, but every time she left her father crying in the airport she came that much…

— Ann Patchett

“And as for my mom, whatever happened, whatever her reasons were, they don’t really matter anymore other than as a way to know her…

— Eliza Crewe

Mom?" I said. She turned. "Can I talk to you about something?" "Of course, darling. Come here." I took a few steps into the…

— Nicole Krauss

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

— Karen Russell

“She was your mother and she loved you in a way nobody ever has and nobody ever will and no she's gone.”

— Elan Mastai

“I don’t want you to go,” he said, the tears dropping from his eyes, slowly at first, then spilling like a river. “I know,…

— Patrick Ness

“I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me. She has…

— Gillian Flynn