“Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait.” MotherLostWaitingOpinionLowsCancerPrioritiesScareDirtCleaningCleaning UpLost HopeFailed Marriage Book:Local Girls Source: Local Girls
“I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand.” KnowsLooksPersonsEnoughHandsMotherWaterTaughtNeededFitBowlsPalms Book:Incantation Source: Incantation
“Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.” ThinkingWayFeelsShouldChildrenMotherMomFitSpendingYour ChildrenSingle MomSpending TimeSingle Mother Author:Alice Hoffman
“I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.” PeopleFirstsEndsStoriesWantedLastsMotherHateReadingNovelStrangeHabitPagesI HateReading Habits Author:Alice Hoffman
“When I read Jerome D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" that was the first time I felt my mind blow open. I thought that book was speaking to me. I was 12 or 13 when I read that. I read everything on my mother's bookshelves.” MindFirstsBookMotherFeltFirst TimeBlowBookshelvesCatchersSalinger Author:Alice Hoffman
“My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.” PeopleMenMadeMotherGoneTaughtMen And WomenGardenDustAbra Book:Incantation Source: Incantation
“Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.” PeopleIfsLooksSaidMotherFortuneOwnersBad Fortune Book:Incantation Source: Incantation
“I know who you are in your heart,' Andres said. 'That's all that matters.' And that was it. That was the moment. Now I knew how I would feel if I ever lost him. That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do was imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.” IfsKnowsFeelsHeartPersonsMadeSaidMatterMomentsMotherLostImagineWho You AreShiver Book:Incantation Source: Incantation
“Abra DeMadrigal didn't look young enough to be my sister anymore. Her sorrow weighed her down and aged her. She was still beautiful, but she looked very far away. No wonder our people had raven eyes, so distant, so sad. No matter how wise she was, my mother looked like a woman who hadn't truely believed how much evil there was in our world. Not until this moment.” PeopleWorldLooksStillsMatterEnoughMomentsEyeBeautifulYoungMotherEvilWonderWiseSorrowDown AndOur WorldMy SisterFar AwayRavensSo SadAbra Author:Alice Hoffman
“That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.” ThinkingWayFeelsShouldMotherSoundCuttingHoneyKnives Book:Incantation Source: Incantation
“My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.” LastsMotherFatherForeverBloodBrotherMy BrotherGrandfatherMy GrandfatherEver After Author:Alice Hoffman
