Comfort Quote by Trevor Cole

“But how do you throw a lifeline when you yourself don’t even have a rope to hold on to? I might have been able…

— Aly Martinez

“MOTHER: (looking at her daughter who will hang in the morning) My dear... such a thin pretty neck... (crying) It will snap like a…

— Leon Kaye

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging…

— Phyllis Bottome

“Mother loosen my tongue or adorn me with a lighter burden”

— Audre Lorde

“Your other mother, Sarah, she tells me to send heavy thoughts to the wind, to make room for lighter ones”

— Jane Kirkpatrick

Don't talk about a rope in the house of someone whose father was hung.

— Colin Farrell

“My mother sighed, making me feel that I was placing an intolerable burden on her, and yet making me resent having to feel this…

— Margaret Laurence

“Something, someone, cut off her head, yanked out her tongue. My mother is a middle-aged woman, a middle-class woman, a woman of moderate intelligence…

— Carol Shields

“Then turn your eyes back on me, and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are…

— V.C. Andrews

“A child’s bond to her mother cannot be understated, and my bond with Helen was a ragged, baffling, disheartening, chaotic mess. I felt crazy,…

— Cathy Lamb

“My mother taught me to knit when I was seven. I forgot about knitting until one day I saw Marion at the counter with…

— Anita Shreve

“My mother's perpetual now, tempting me with possibility. Weren't we silly, she might say? What was the matter with us? Let's be close again.…

— Susanna Sonnenberg