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“Like all good mothers, she always knew the worst was going to happen and was disappointed and relieved when it finally did.”
“Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it's shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn't he? When a son cuts somebody's throat the mother only sees it's possibl...”
“Common sense. Mothers are the last riddle, the worst horror, the only consolation.”
“Temujin nodded. He had every intention to do his bit in the battle, like his mother.”
“Mother was a beautiful young woman; the house was too plain, too small to contain her. I watched her; for the first time I understood that she had an inner life that didn't have anything to do with...”
“Isn't that what I always think when I get The Poor Motherless Girl Look? Like I've been shoved out of the airplane without a parachute because mothers are the parachutes.”
“They are not kidding when they say that mothers are strong women. We need to be strong in more ways than our children will ever know.”
“Mothers took their mothering so seriously now. Their frantic little faces...Ponytails swinging. Eyes fixed on the mobile phones held in the palms of their hands like compasses.”
“Mothers are generally starvers or feeders”
“Mom could make small things seem miraculous. That was her talent.”
“(...)no one can take the place of a perfect mother who gives you the world as you know it and makes you believe that it is yours to take.”
“The only thing mothers have in common with each other is the fact that they slept with a man while they were ovulating without the appropriate protection”
“Generations of women have sacrificed their lives to become their mothers. But we do not have that luxury any more. The world has changed too much to let us have the lives our mothers had. And we ca...”
“Mothers are multi-taskers.”
“that old Mrs. Bishop was lacking in the qualities that make a good mother. And saying it that way makes her sound a good deal better than she really was.”
“MOTHER' A flower of our Life's garden, which we don't wanna let it withers ever.”
“Her husband and her children did not consider her beyond criticism. She belonged to them; whatever she did affected them; their pride, their good name in the world lay in her hands. They would give...”
“I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.”
“Mama stared at me not with sadness, but with pleading. She was thinner than I'd ever allowed myself to notice, looking more like a child than a woman. I wanted to believe she knew what was best for...”
“No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. There is no o...”
