Belonged Quote by Shulem Deen

“No mother is ever, completely, a child’s idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as…

— Margaret Atwood

“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 used to think that only parents can understand the sort of love that swallows you up, but now she wondered whether it was…

— Paula Hawkins

“But a mother sees her child’s shortcomings, even if she doesn’t admit to them very often.”

— Mary Campisi

“Is there anything more solid, more right, than knowing you child was where she ought to be?”

— Jodi Picoult

“I only look at her as a mother, and she doesn't succeed in being that to me.”

— Anne Frank

“Does not a child recognize her own mother?”

— Lauren Baratz-Logsted

“You stared at the stranger in front of you and decided, categorically, that this was no longer your son. Or you made the decision…

— Jodi Picoult

“She understood him with the knowing and not-knowing that comes of being a child. When you focus on your parent as if they are…

— Scott Cawthon

“I realized how much it must suck to be a parent. You devote everything to your kids, who just end up growing up and…

— Sara Taylor

“No mother is ever, completely, a child’s idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as…

— Margaret Atwood

“...and she thought she understood, for the first time, the strange and terrible power a parent has over a child's happiness, and also how…

— Meg Mitchell Moore