Quote by Tricia Springstubb

“I am still jealous that Phoebe’s mother came back and mine did not. I miss my mother.”

— Sharon Creech

“Phoebe realized how very wrong she’d been about this house, this family. It was far darker, more dangerous than the places she’d grown up…

— Jennifer McMahon

“He’s got two. Different mamas, of course. Six months apart. They’re the cutest little things. Spittin’ image of their daddy. You should see them.”

— RaeAnne Thayne

“Mamas are always crying about how one day they see you as a baby, and the next morning, they see you growed up.”

— Andrew Galasetti

“Mama, you know, lost all her enthusiasm for mothering by Baby Number Seven. What a pity she did not lose her enthusiasm for Papa…

— Loretta Chase

“The mother needs mothering too.”

— Susan Schneider

“I’ll name my firstborn child Squiblob, after his mother.”

— Jarod Kintz

“By-the-bye, what became of the baby?”

— Lewis Carroll

“In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.”

— James Baldwin

“Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder what she…

— Nancy E. Turner

“Before your mother, my heart was little more than a seed, Jane. A wiggly, gelatinous mother, rather like a solitary sperm.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Momma was with the pony last night. Lily and me have him in the mornings, and we give him a wash with the shammy…

— Kirsty Logan