Gone forever Quote by Susan Abulhawa

“I heard a voice in my head. It said: I would rather be alone than ever be my mother. I will leave before I…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“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

“Gabito would say later that he had no memory of his mother. She had left him before he could retain any memories at all.”

— Gerald Martin

“For me, Mama's cabinet had been full of mysteries and secrets to be puzzled out, like an adventure. For them it had been full…

— Stephanie Burgis

“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

“Saige, Mother is . . .” I briefly close my eyes and swallow, clearing my mouth from saliva. “Mother is dead.”

— Jada Berglund

“And my dad, who was somehow still dead, did what he sometimes did―died again, seconds after my waking.”

— Jeannie Vanasco

“She’d told Bela that the feeling would ebb but never fully go away. It would form part of her landscape, wherever she went. She…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“Where is your maman? I don't know. I think we've gone and lost her, Pea. Papa's voice dissolves into the colours behind my eyes.…

— Claire King

“Then I looked right at Mama, for the first time in what seemed like forever, and she wasn't looking at me, but into me.…

— Katherine Hannigan

“That was a strange thing, the death of Coco. Not that he should die, for owing to the unexpected folly of the concierge it…

— Elizabeth von Arnim