Parenting Quote by Sonja Yoerg

“She was off like a bird, bullet, or arrow, impelled by what desire, shot by whom, at what directed, who could say?”

— Virginia Woolf

“Lynn pulled her own rifle into her lap, the cold metal bringing more comfort to her than Mother’s touch ever could. Her finger curled…

— Mindy McGinnis

“...she forced herself to relax her shoulders and affect a tone of bored insouciance that the Widow would have approved, and said, "I shall…

— Donna Thorland

“Sometimes she despaired at other women - their feebleness, their triviality, the nonsense they absorbed. So many were like little doe-eyed deer waiting to…

— Dave Franklin

“All her life, she had learned that passion, like fire, was a dangerous thing. It so easily went out of control. It scaled walls…

— Celeste Ng

“She had the feeling that if she went home, she might never get away. She thought of birds caught in nets. There was something…

— Alice Hoffman

“It came to Mary now that her mother had been right, after all; Mary had been born for this. In sixteen years she'd shot…

— Emma Donoghue

“It was time to face the second hardest fact in her life; she had a dead mother, and a father who was actively killing…

— Alex Morgan

“Every step she took seemed to show her a new danger. Talking to strangers could kill her. Failing to remember table etiquette could kill…

— Frances Hardinge

“There had seemed no other way to view her, not until that moment when he'd fallen from the window. Rude shock: running down the…

— Meredith Duran

“If she was on the porch when we passed, we would be raked by her wrathful gaze, subjected to ruthless interrogation regarding our behaviour,…

— Harper Lee

“She took no pleasure in using her skills to break his weapon, but deep down, there was a cold satisfaction, as if all her…

— Peter V. Brett