She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and another, each one flung out like a little piece of sand, one from this direction, another form behind, more and more,...
-
Amy Tan
She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.
-
Thomas Hardy
For we think back through our mothers if we are women.
-
Virginia Woolf
He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers at the very best, or spinster parasites at the worst.
-
Philippa Gregory
When it comes to broken trust, women are the master masons, building barriers that not even love can breach. But mothers…they are the architects.
-
Jason Worthley
More Quotes By Elizabeth McCracken
Can I tell you something? It wasn't so bad. Not so bad at all right then, me scowling at the dirt, James in his bed, the way it always always was. Look, if that's all that happened, if his dying just meant that I would...
Books remember all the things you cannot contain.
The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.
Books are a bad family - there are those you love, and those you are indifferent to; idiots and mad cousins who you would banish except others enjoy their company; wrongheaded but fascinating eccentrics and dreamy geniuses; orphaned grandchildren; and endless brothers-in-law simply taking up...
Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie down in the arms of anyone who asked. Not like bookstore books, which married their purchasers, or were brokered for marriages to others.
