5,322 Quotes About Mother

  • Author Donna Tartt
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    And though it's a bleak thing to admit all these years later, still I've never met anyone who made me feel loved the way she did. Everything came alive in her company; she cast a charmed theatrical light about her so that to see anything through her eyes was to see it in brighter colors than ordinary.

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  • Author Brian Selznick
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    Ben had never seen his mother cry before, and it startled him, so he didn't ask again. Right afterward she'd put on her favorite record and played a mysterious song called "Space Oddity," about an astronaut named Major Tom who gets lost in space. She used to listen to the song over and over again. With her eyes closed, she'd place the palm of her hand against the fabric of the speaker, so she could feel it vibrate against her skin.

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  • Author Dan Andrei Aldea
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    Mama mea era pe patul de moarte și-mi spunea: «Copil prost, nu ai nici o datorie, ăștia fac mișto de tine când te întorci!» Locuiam în bloc cu o fostă balerină, de fiecare dată când veneam din Belgia discutau și aceasta îi spunea «Ți s-a întors prostul!»

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  • Author Bill Blais
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    I know you think I should be home taking care of my family. That maybe I’d be distracted or I wouldn’t be as committed as the rest of you, but who’s more committed: the person with something to lose, or the people who’ve got nothing left?

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