M Quotes
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“Mom actually said that?" Cassie's face shown with happiness. "She always hated my math!" "Nah," Martin said. "She was just being that way for you. She thought it was what you needed to hear. If parents told us what they really think about stuff, we could figure them out like regular people.”
“Mom also hinted a couple of times that it was good I was going to college, since with one failed marriage behind me, I 'd have trouble landing a good husband and would need something to fall back on. "A package that's been opened once doesn't have the same appeal".”
Source: Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
“Mom always liked to say that we hardly ever know the decisions we make that change our lives, mostly because they are little ones. You took this bus instead of that one and ended up meeting your soul mate, that kind of thing. But there was no doubt in my mind that this was one of those life-changing moments.”
Source: Demonglass
“Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you are young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul.”
Source: The Glass Castle: A Memoir
“Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul, and that was why she ignored us kids when we cried. Fussing over children who cry only encouraged them, she told us. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.”
Source: The Glass Castle: A Memoir
“Mom always said that tomorrow gives us another chance to do what today did not afford us the opportunity to do. But then she’d lean over, give me a wink and say, “But we’ve still got a few hours to get a jump-start on tomorrow.”
“Mom always says all sorts of shit goes down in the world, and it’s up to me to decide how to take it. The one way you’re sure to be unhappy is to frown your way through life, she says, and she’s right. Always look for the bright, vibrant color through the darkness. It’s always there, but sometimes hard to see.”
Source: The Music of What Happens
“Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone's uniqueness. I like the way that sounds.”
“Mom and Dad called me Moonlight, the brightest thing in their sky on their darkest nights. It always sounded so pretty, but the real me is more rough around the edges.”
Source: Still the Stars
“Mom and Dad clap. Bailey jumps up and down. Knight gives us a thumbs-up, and Vaughns rolls his eyes but smiles. Luna, Addy, Harper, and Camilo look at us likek they've won something. Happy in our happiness.
And that's what good friends and families do.
They pick you up and pull you out of the mud of your own mistakes.
And when you're not the best version of yourself? Well, they're still there, waiting, because we're all fucking human.”
Source: Pretty Reckless
“Mom and Dad could've done it," he said. "They were grown-ups. We're just . . . tall children.”
Source: How to Sell a Haunted House
“Mom and Dad exchange a nervous glance and have a telepathic conversation about it. I hear every word.
Do we let her out? It's past curfew.
True, but look at that—at least she asked!
I know! I can hardly believe it!
She could have sneaked out, but she asked!
I know! We're good parents!
"What time will you be back?" Dad asks.”
Source: Cracked Up to Be
“Mom and Dad had a lot to answer for, she decided. She couldn’t even be rude to evil vampires who’d caged her boyfriend and were preparing to roast him alive.”
Source: The Morganville Vampires:
“Mom and dad probably told you I've been arrested. I'm innocent. I want you to know that.”
“Mom and Dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in... But every time I do, they tell me to stop it.”
“Mom and Dad were great, but being asked where I was going every time I left the house - or where I'd been every time I returned - got old quickly.”
Source: The Devil Wears Prada
“Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.”
“Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.”
“Mom and I have been proud of you. Not only on your accomplishment but more on your happy personality. We'll support you whatever you choose (most time! Ha!). Don't feel bad if sometimes we are too nervous. We just hope to give you all our guidance and help to make your decisions simpler. We might put too much pressure on you but that's not what we mean. Be relax but arrange your time to handle priorities.”
Source: Stay True
“Mom and I were walking onteh beach and I was explaining to her how I wantd to "GET OVER all my INSECURITIES" and "La La... La..".... and she looked at me and said "Sabrina, does anyone realy feel good about themselves for MORE than 5 minutes?" We both laughed. I was releaved to know she felt that way becuae she seems SO graceful, calm and beautiful, which she is.. but also full of so much more. Auestions, doubts + WONDER. I think that if we can aim for just five minutes a day of complete acceptance of ourselves, we are doing very well!”
“Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.”
Source: Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography
“Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.”
Source: Merman: an autobiography
“Mom and sister played piano growing up; my grandma still plays piano in church. They always beat me over the head trying to get me to play piano, but I was more interested in riding dirt bikes and playing in the mud.”
“Mom as it's your birthday
And, unfortunately, not mine
Give me some money and I'll get out your hair
While you have a large glass of wine
I try so hard to be thoughtful”
“Mom asked for a cupcake miracle? Well, here comes the freaking holy angel of icing, at your service. --Hudson
Angel icing? That's the craziest, corniest, most whack-ass stuff I've heard in my life”
Source: Bittersweet
“Mom asked me if I was okay. I shrugged and nodded. “Well, there you go”, she said. She said that sexual assault was a crime of perception. “If you don’t think you’re hurt, then you aren’t”, she said. “So many women make such a big deal out of these things. But you’re stronger then that”, she went back to her crossword puzzle.”
Source: The Glass Castle
“Mom," Blondie tells me, "cupcakes are cake wrapped in love." I smile and agree with her. Yes, love, they most certainly are. ~ Violet Lapp and Blondie from "The Circle.”
Source: The Circle: A Humorously Fun Rural Life Adventure Exploring Relationships, Parenthood and Motherhood
“Mom, camping is not a date; it's an endurance test. If you can survive camping with someone, you should marry them on the way home.”
Source: The Vinyl Princess
“Mom, can I have a pig?" Avery asked, hopeful.
"No," Mrs. Arable replied firmly.
"Can I have a chicken?" he tried again.
"No."
"Can I have a goose?"
"No."
"Can I have a duck?"
"No."
"Can I get my tongue pierced and dye my hair pink?" Avery asked, trying his luck one last time.
"You can have a duck," Mrs. Arable said with a sigh.”
Source: SUS: Short Unpredictable Stories
“Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.”
“Mom could make small things seem miraculous. That was her talent.”
Source: The Good Luck of Right Now
“Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.”
Source: Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
“Mom, Dad, I’m fourteen, I see what the world is like. And, no, I did not get this from the psychologist...I came to this understanding on my own, from what I really see in myself and about life.”
Source: Call Of The Tree
“Mom did not want me to have anything to do with playing music. Being from a middle-class Black family in that particular era, everybody wanted you to have a profession -- a doctor, a lawyer, and so forth. So she sent me to school to study medicine.”
“Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.”
Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
“Mom, for example, is Procter and Gamble’s perfect repeat customer. Renovation contractors send her personalized Christmas cards. She lives for the Sunday edition of our local newspaper. She thumbs through the “Modern Home” section. She mopes through the rest of the day, unhappy with all her outdated things.”
Source: Zonked Out: The Teen Psychologist of San Marcos Who Killed Her Santa Claus and Found the Blue-Black Edge of the Love Universe
“Mom had just gotten back from Sydney, and she had brought me an immense, surpassingly blue butterfly, Papilio ulysses, mounted in a frame filled with cotton. I would hold it close to my face, so close I couldn't see anything but that blue. It would fill me with a feeling, a feeling I later tried to duplicate with alcohol and finally found again with Clare, a feeling of unity, oblivion, mindlessness in the best sense of the word.”
Source: The Time Traveler's Wife
“Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere”
“Mom hadn’t been the kind of person who was the best at anything, like Ella and her dad were. Mom was mostly just okay at a lot of things. Maybe that was why she left. Maybe being around someone like Dad all the time was too hard. She’d sure had a lot more friends than he did, though.”
Source: At Top Speed
“Mom hadn't met Ramon; her advocacy was more arm's length - petitions, the website, letter writing, meetings with politicians. Her friend Hanna had formed a close friendship with Ramon though, visiting him as often as she could. Hanna told me that Ramon's greatest regret was that he wouldn't get to see his daughter grow up.
And Jeremy's dad, who had that opportunity, was just throwing it away.
It made me furious, and I couldn't let it go.”
Source: The World Without Us
“Mom has reorganized the kitchen so that the one room that was everyone's room is foreign to me. My visits are punctuated with me whipping around, angrily demanding, "Where are the forks, WHY DID YOU MOVE THE FORKS?" and she has to calmly open the drawer on the other side of the kitchen as if she moved it just to ruin my life. I just found out where she puts the bowls and their new location feels like such a personal attack that I can barely talk about it without raising my blood pressure.”
Source: One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
“Mom has the Touch. She knows what flowers go with what occasions, what hors d'oeuvres work with what people. She believes passionately in the power of food to heal, restore, and stimulate relationships, and she has built a following of loyal customers who really hope she's right. If she's wrong, says Sonia, no one wants to know.”
Source: Thwonk
“Mom has the Touch. She knows what flowers go with what occasions, what hors d'oeuvres work with what people. She believes passionately in the power of food to heal, restore, and stimulate relationships, and she has built a following of loyal customers who really hope she's right. If she's wrong, says Sonia, no one wants to know. (Thwonk)”
Source: Thwonk
“Mom,' he said, 'why do white people want colored people shining shoes?'
She turned toward him, completely at a loss as to what to say, for she had never been able to figure it out for herself. She looked down at her hands. They were brown and strong, the fingers were long and well-shaped. Perhaps because she was born with skin that color, she couldn't see anything wrong with it. She was used to it. Perhaps it was a shock just to look at skins that were dark if you were born with a skin that was white. Yet dark skins were smooth to the touch; they were warm from the blood that ran through the veins under the skin; they covered bodies that were just as well put together as the bodies that were covered with white skins. Even if it were a shock to look at people whose skins were dark, she had never been able to figure out why people with white skins hated people who had dark skins. It must be hate that made them wrap all Negroes up in a neat package labeled 'colored'; a package that called for certain kinds of jobs and a special kind of treatment. But she really didn't know what it was.
'I don't know, Bub,' she said finally. 'But it's for the same reason we can't live anywhere else but in places like this'—she indicated the cracked ceiling, the worn top of the set tub, and the narrow window, with a wave of the paring knife in her hand.”
Source: The Street
“Mom, how come you never go outside?"
"I told you, I'm a vampire.”
Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
“Mom, how do you know if the guy is the guy?”
You mean if he’ll be a good husband?” She pauses, then says “The ticket is for the man to love the woman more than she loves him.”
Shouldn’t it be equal?”
Mom cackles. “It can never be equal.”
But what if the woman loves the man more?”
A life of hell awaits her. As women, the deck is stacked against us because time is our enemy. We age, while men season. And trust me, there are plenty of women out there looking for a man, and they don’t mind staking a claim on somebody else’s husband, no matter how old, creaky, and deaf they are.”
Source: Very Valentine
“mom, i am lonely.
i think i learnt it when dad left;
how to turn the anger into lonely,
the lonely into busy.
when i tell you i've been super busy lately,
i mean i've been falling asleep watching sportscenter on the couch to avoid confronting the empy side of my bed.”
Source: Depression & Other Magic Tricks
“Mom, I feel good. This dress makes me feel like someone I didn't know I could be. I've never owned anything like it. But if when you see this - when you see me- you think it's a pity, that it's a shame I didn't lose a few, then screw you, Mom. Try harder.”
“Mom, I'm bleeding! Please don't yell at me!
YOU WILL HAVE A SCAR FOREVER!”
Source: Crying in H Mart
“Mom, I'm going to be a firefly.”
Source: The Dark Forest