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“The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.”

Book:The Red Tent

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“...do you have someone you can stay with? Hell, stay with your mother. The Pentagon doesn’t have the security system she’s got.” I really would rather die. “I’m not putting my mother in the path of a serial killer. Thanks for the thought.” “God help the serial killer who tackles your mother,” Riordan muttered.”

Mothers Dark Humor Serial Killers

Book:Fatal Shadows

Source: Fatal Shadows

“You were tossed away like a pair of beautiful, brand new shoes that did not quite fit.”

Mothers Adoption Dysfunctional Family Dysfunctional Families Adopted Kids The Wayward Gifted

Author:Donna K. Childree

“NOTHING HAS EVER LOOKED LIKE THAT EVER IN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY,” he said. His enthusiasm was adorable. I couldn’t resist leaning over to kiss him on the cheek. “Just so you know, I’m right here,” Mom said. “Sitting next to you. Your mother. Who held your hand as you took your first infantile steps.” “It’s friendly,” I reminded her, turning to kiss her on the cheek. “Didn’t feel too friendly,” Gus mumbled just loud enough for me to hear. When surprised and excited and innocent Gus emerged from Grand Gesture Metaphorically Inclined Augustus, I literally could not resist.”

Cute Mothers Hilarious

Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“You just stood up to your mother.... I should think now you could take on the world.”

Mother Courage Mothers Mothers And Sons Standing Your Ground

Book:Abide With Me

Source: Abide With Me

“I'll tend to her as no mother ever tended a child, a daughter. Nobody will ever get my milk no more except my own children. I never had to give it to nobody else--and the one time I did it was took from me--they held me down and took it. Milk that belonged to my baby.... I know what it is to be without the milk that belongs to you; to have to fight and holler for it, and to have so little left.”

Milk Mothers

Book:Beloved

Source: Beloved

“There she was, the mother of me, like a lit plinth, Heavenly, though I was reared to find this kind Of visitation impractical; she was an unbearable detail Of the supreme celestial map, Of which I had been taught that there was No such thing.”

Awe Divinity Mothers Ambivalence Personal Cosmology Still Life With Aspirin

Book:Trouble in Mind: Poems

Source: Trouble in Mind: Poems

“If you should choose to look at those files, you will have to live with the consequences of your choices while, at the same time, being mindful that these choices will not only effect you, but will also infect, sorry, I intended to say effect, our entire family.”

Mothers Adoption Family Relationships Dysfunction Dysfunctional Families Adoption Search

Author:Donna K. Childree

“You just hang in there, boy, hang in with that apprenticeship of yours, do you hear me? You are lucky they would even take someone like you. You’re a child of the slums. A ragtag. On top of that, you’re a whining piece of shit. Nobody will ever do anything for you. Do you understand what I’m saying? They’ll let you starve to death, no problem. Nobody is going to cry on your grave.” Poul-Erik’s Mother The Informer by Steen Langstrup”

Crime Mothers Noir Style Scandinavian Mysteries

Book:The Informer

Source: The Informer

“It's peculiar to me,' she said, 'that everybody pays so much attention to living and so little to dying. Why are these high-powered scientists always screwing around trying to prolong life instead of finding pleasant ways to end it? There must be a hell of a lot of people in the world like me - who want to die but haven't got the guts -”

Life Death

Book:They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Source: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

“What thumbsuckers we all are...when it comes to mothers.”

Mothers Margaret Atwood Bluebeard S Egg

Book:Bluebeard's Egg

Source: Bluebeard's Egg

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