Mom Quotes - Page 24

• I missed you every minute this week and I don't want to spend another day without you. If my mom disowns me for being with a vampire, then that's her decision, but I've made mine, and I won't apologize of back down from it.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Decision, Vampire, Want

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• When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I realized how very little I had in common with them – the career dads, the responsible and diligent moms – and I was soon filled with dread and loneliness. I locked in on the smug feeling of superiority that married couples give off and that permeated the air – the shared assumptions, the sweet and contented apathy, it all lingered everywhere – despite the absence in the room of anyone single at which to aim this.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Sweet, Couple, Dad

  Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “Lunar Park”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

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• And also, one is a mother in order to understand the inexplicable. One is a mother to lighten the darkness. One is a mother to shield when lightning streaks the night, when thunder shakes the earth, when mud bogs one down. One is a mother in order to love without beginning or end.

  Mariama Bâ

  Mother, Night, Order

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• Maybe I'm wrong," Mom said. "Maybe the world really is coming to an end." "Should I try Fox News?" I asked. Mom shuddered. "We're not that desperate," she said.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Trying, News, World

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the next election, I'm voting for your mom to be the next God.

  David Levithan

  Voting, Next, Election

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.158, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I haven't cried since Mom died. I mean, after something like that, what's left to cry about, right? But I let myself cry now. Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it. (266)

  Ellen Hopkins

  Mean, Loss, Cry

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• Mom told me, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be Grandma, don’t you think?” I told her, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be anyone

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Lonely, Grandma, Thinking

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Ever come home and found your room messed up? Like some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to "clean" it, and suddenly you can't find anything? And even if nothing is missing, you get that creepy feeling like somebody's been looking through your private stuff and dusting everything with lemon furniture polish?

  Rick Riordan

  Home, Missing, Feelings

  "Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters". Book by Rick Riordan, April 1, 2006.

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• But my mother's life was a never-ending round of maintenance. Not one single thing did she ever achieve but that it had to be done all over again, one day or one week or one season later. Oh, the monotony.

  Jacqueline Kelly

  Mother, One Day, Maintenance

  Jacqueline Kelly (2009). “The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate”, p.213, Macmillan

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• I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Mother, Memories, Loss

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• Although love could grow in times of peace, it tempered in battle. Daddy told me once - when I'd said something about how perfect his relationship with Mom was - that I should have seen the first five years of their marriage, that they'd fought like hellions, crashed into each other like two giant stones. That eventually they'd eroded each other into the perfect fit, become a single wall, nestled into each other's curves and hollows, her strengths chinking his weaknesses, her weaknesses reinforced by his strengths.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Wall, Two, Curves

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Apr 23, 2015

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• it was all your genes that made us geniuses, mom. said peter. we sure didn't get any from dad. i heard that. father said, not looking up from the news that was being displayed on the table while he ate it would've been wasted if you hadn't

  Orson Scott Card

  Dad, Father, News

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead”, p.27, Macmillan

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• Alex decided he’d had enough. He put down his knife. “All right,” he said. “You’ve made it pretty clear that you don’t want to work with me. Well, that’s fine. Because I don’t want to work with you either. And for what it’s worth, nobody would ever believe you were my mom because no mom would ever behave like you.” “Alex…,” Carver began. “Forget it! I’m going back to London. And if you’re Mr. Byrne asks why, you can tell him I didn’t like the jelly, so I went home to get some jam.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Believe, Home, Knives

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• Stop looking at me like that." Sorry, I just wanted to savor the moment," Mom replied. What moment?" I asked. You're in first place," she said, and then began washing the windows.

  Lisa Lutz

  Sorry, Firsts, Window

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• Just for you non-sea-god types out there, don't go swimming in New York Harbor. It may not be as filthy as it was in my mom's day, but that water will still probably make you grow a third eye or have mutant children when you grow up.

  Rick Riordan

  New York, Children, Growing Up

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• I looked into her eyes. "Mom, who do you pray to?" I just pray, Daniel. That's all.

  James Patterson

  Eye, Her Eyes, Praying

  James Patterson (2008). “The Dangerous Days of Daniel X”, p.36, Random House

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• May each of us remember this truth; 'one cannot forget mother and remember God. One cannot remember mother and forget God.' Why? Because these two sacred persons, God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice, in service, are as one.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Love, God, Mother

  FaceBook post by Thomas S Monson from May 10, 2015

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• You big crybaby," I whispered into his ear. "Now you know why your mom warned you not to hit girls. Sometimes they hit back.

  Kirsten Miller

  Girl, Ears, Sometimes

  Kirsten Miller (2006). “Inside the Shadow City”

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• It only meant that my natural inclination was to draw my "energy" from within instead of seeking it outside myself, plus my mom was an introvcert, and so were a lot of normal people. The problem was I was shy on top of that. And we all know how the world loves a shy introvert.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  World Love, People, Energy

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• Mom says it's because she has PMS. Do you even know what that means? "I'm not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at- men syndrome

  Nicholas Sparks

  Humor, Mean, Kids

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• No, I am never setting foot in this house again it scares me and makes me sad and I wish you could be a mom whose eyes worked but I don't think you can.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Eye, Thinking, Feet

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.146, Scholastic UK

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• Meltdown when we get home. Mom keeps chocolate for meltdowns. Daddy always has them when Uncle Jonas visits." -David Lyons from Tanner's Scheme-

  Lora Leigh

  Uncles, Home, Daddy

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• Evelyn: There's nothing wrong with embracing one's emotions. Brittany: Mom, You don't just embrace your emotions, you make love to them hard-core.

  Gena Showalter

  Making Love, Emotion, Embrace

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• I got a washed out version of Mom’s curls and a better copy of Dad’s blue eyes, The rest of me, I guess, is up for grabs. Except maybe Gran’s nose, but she could have been trying to make me feel better. I’m no prize. Most girls go through a gawky stage, but I’m beginning to think mine will be a lifelong thing. It doesn’t bother me too much. Better to be strong than pretty and useless. I’ll take a plain girl with her head screwed on right over a cheerleader any day.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Girl, Strong, Dad

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• My skin prickled and I looked back at the ocean. None of us ask for the things we inherit; they are thrust upon us, willy-nilly. Like The Marine, I suddenly understood. Mom and I weren't trespassing. This house was ours. This view was ours. And that seemed as absurd and unreal as the stories Sailor Hat had spun for me on the ferry.

  Aimee Friedman

  Ocean, Marine, Views

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