287 Quotes About Mothers-and-daughters

Why don’t you want to see your mom? Did she burn yourdolls in a sacrificial fire? Read your e-mail?”“She wants to run my life,” I explain.“What a bitch. It’s like she thinks she’s your motheror something.”“She’s a psychopath,” I said. “It’s complicated.”“Psychopaths can’t afford fur coats.”“This one can.

Seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love.

You're not by any chance my stepmother are you?" Min said to her mother's reflection. "Because that would explain so much.

Mothers sound so stupid when they praise their daughters to the skies.

You don't belong here if you are unhappy," she continued. "Your mother makes you hateful, and you make her hateful. It doesn't matter if she's your mother. It's an accident of birth. It doesn't have to mean so much."..."You belong where you have the best chance of being happy...

Mother and daughter got on very well indeed, with a deep affection founded on almost complete misunderstanding.

I had always assumed we had an unspoken understanding about these things: that she didn't really mean I was a failure, and I really meant I would try to respect her opinions more.

Book Excerpt: ”While she was still physically with us, she was not the mother I knew before Alzheimer’s. …. I had grieved her loss and yet she was not gone…I knew I would miss Sallie when she was gone, but I already missed my mother.

I got almost eighteen years with you. The best eighteen years of my life.