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“She looked worn from a long day in the office but she did not let one single complaint slip from her lips as she…

— Emily Curtis

“Sometimes, in secret in her head, she liked to skip that awkward “son and daughter-in-law” phrasing and just call them her children.”

— Laura Florand

“Mom’s new husband was eleven years older than Mom. He had been Mom’s boss at the Buick dealership where she’d worked until they were…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“When the first book out my sister-in-law read it and we were chatting at 5 o'clock in the afternoon and she said, "Oh my…

— Sara Sheridan

“My mother laughed and told me she was only doing what mothers have always done for their sons. Then she told me that it…

— Nicholas Sparks

“and tested room service. I left her at work Monday”

— Robert B. Parker

“I told her my father was a retired janitor who liked to go fishing. She told me her father was a podiatrist who liked…

— Gary Shteyngart

“Her faculty for hitting the right nail on the head is almost miraculous – especially as all her blows have the air of being…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“I'm sitting on the lumbering late bus, thinking about the way I'm going to start my Monday: by filling out an unexcused absence form…

— Daniel Handler

“The ads in the papers all said 'help wanted, will train,' but wherever she went she was turned down. "The position's just been filled,"…

— Julie Otsuka

“When your mom was not in labor yelling at me, she made me laugh so hard.”

— Jim Gaffigan

“of her colleagues”

— Dominic Milne