I understand that you are under a lot of pressure and that it's hard being a bride. That is all well and good. But it does not, ever, entitle you to be rude, selfish, uncaring, and generally obnoxious...

Have we ever wondered a mother's silent cries? Her struggles, her fears and her worries? Do we ever have time for this in our busy lives? Have we ever thought of the sacrifices she has done in order...

You're my daughter. I don't care about the factions.

What am I doing here, Reena? Why am I dancing to the tunes of that old hag?" You are saving your family.

Grandma Hutto's flower garden was a bright patchwork quilt thrown down inside the pickets.

I swear we'd lose our hearts if they weren't with elastic and butterfly pin clasped safely in.

That's the moon,' I said. 'Gran likes it like that,' said Lettie Hempstock. 'But it was a crescent moon yesterday. And now it's full. And it was raining. It is raining. But now it's not.' 'Gran likes...

Minli suddenly thought of Ma and Ba. A wave of longing washed through her and a dryness caught in her throat that the tea could not moisten. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon.

Being mom is one of my favorite things. It makes my day watching my kids grow and accomplish things in their lives.

Happiness is when you realize that your kids have grown up to be AWESOME people!

A mother is the person who takes care of you when you're sick. The one who holds you when you're afraid. The one who follows the bus to school on the first day to make sure you made it okay. I have...

My parents have lived longer than most and have expected very little. We have been blessed in too many ways to count.

I lost my family. If you have nothing to love, you have nothing to lose. Even your own life becomes meaningless.

Mother and wife are saints, if they are not together

You are never old enough to lose your mother.

Never argue with a mother who's scolding her child.

Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets.

I thought about the cameras following me in the terminal and pictured my family watching my entrance on TV. I hoped they'd be proud.

My mother does not own my hands, though she works hard to train them. My mother does not own my eyes, though she frequently directs their focus. My mother does not own my mind, though she yields great...

And as she held me, I suddenly realized that my lifelong search for love and acceptance had finally ended in the arms of a foster parent.

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Having kids means taking care of them, raising them, loving and supporting them, and none of those things have anything to do with who makes them one night in the bedroom or the experience of being...

I want to remember warming your two a.m. bottle, clipping your locks, watching you be baptized, bathing you in the big porcelain sink… how I often laid you against my chest and felt the cradlesong...

You think you have a handle on God, the Universe, and the Great White Light until you go home for Thanksgiving. In an hour, you realize how far you've got to go and who is the real turkey.

But you never said anything! Not one frigging word, Lara Jean! Automatically I say, Don't say 'frig.' Not one frigging word, Kitty repeats with a shake of her head. Peter cracks up, and I give him a...

And what if I need something? Find it yourself. Connor snorted. Where did all the niceties go? You're not a guest. You're family. Find your own fucking towels.

You have a mother? His mouth quirked with humor. Yep, and a father too! Every kid normally has one of each to begin with. He was teasing me in an affectionate way...

We all think when we're young that we want excitement and highs and passion. To hell with ordinary. But when we find ourselves in these adult bodies, when we wise up a little, or get slapped in the...

And then our Mum and Dad were in love and they were truly dry - stone strong and durable and people speak of ease and joy and spontaneity and the fact that their two smells became one smell, our...

Abbie would stop in her work and utter a prayer for him, - and, sent as it were from the bow of a mother's watchful care, bound by the cord of a mother's love, the little winged arrow on its flight...