14 quotes found
“Love makes us such fools.”
“Because I'm your mother, that's why.”
“children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people”
“She is the glorious reincarnation of every woman ever loved.”
“Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.”
“She didn't see it because when it came to love, she saw what she wanted to see.”
“Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.”
“She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place.”
“To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.”
“The days she was finally brought out of the house would later be remembered as a day when shadows seemed blacker, as if something more lingered in those darkened spaces.”
“The whole world had given up on love anyway and clung instead to its malformed cousins: lust, narcissism, self-interest.”
“Fate. As a child, that word was often my only companion. It whispered to me from dark corners during lonely nights. It was the song of the birds in spring and the call of the wind through bare bran...”
“But while the thought of being dead seemed appealing, the actual act of dying did not.”
“The first bout of warm spring rain caused normally respectable women to pull off their stockings and run through muddy puddles alongside their children.”
