Mom Quotes - Page 27

• For we think back through our mothers if we are women.

  Virginia Woolf

  Mother, Thinking, Ifs

  1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.4.

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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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• Becky Renee Apple - can you believe her mom named her that and then had all of her sweaters monogramed with 'BRA'?

  P. C. Cast

  Believe, Sweaters, Apples

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• ‎"Someday I'm going to marry someone like my mom and I'll be smiling all the time the way my Mom and Dad are.

  Koushun Takami

  Dad, Way, Someday

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• [Lennie meets Joe - he works out that she was named after John Lennon] I nod. "Mom was a hippie." This is northern Northern California after all - the final frontier of freakerdom. Just in the eleventh grade we have a girl named Electricity, a guy named Magic Bus, and countless flowers: Tulip, Begonia, and Poppy - all parent-given-on-the-birth-certificate names. Tulip is a two-ton bruiser of a guy who would be the star of out football team if we were the kind of school that has optional morning meditation in the gym

  Jandy Nelson

  Girl, Football, Morning

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• But not like this: not with the house just an afterimage, and my mom a spirit, and my dad...recycled." "Carter Kane, Chapter 41

  Rick Riordan

  Dad, House, Spirit

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• Stop it, Mom, you're making me blush.

  Stephenie Meyer

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• She went from angry to calm so fast that he wondered if she wasn’t the Ferrari of moms. Her top speed had to be .65 nanoseconds.’ (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Ferrari, Calm, Speed

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.191, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I guessed his name was Face of Horror. I wondered how long it had taken his mom to think of that. Bob? No. Sam? No. How about Face of Horror?

  Rick Riordan

  Taken, Thinking, Names

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• Did you see a doctor? (Syn) Yeah. It’ll heal. (Cruel) Did your mom say anything? (Syn) Clean the blood out of the carpet before it sets. What could she say? Better me than her. (Cruel)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Doctors, Blood, Say Anything

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• Sway says you’ve been taking really good care of him for me. (Claria) Well, his mom did a great job housebreaking him, so he doesn’t require too much work. Not to mention Vik doesn’t mind walking him once a day. It’s all good. (Devyn) You’re such a smartass. (Claria)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Jobs, Mind, Care

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Ice”, p.163, Macmillan

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• Hi, Mom. (Devyn) It’s the other parental unit. Not as pretty or as fierce as your mother, but loving nonetheless. (Syn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Fierce, Parental

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• Hi, Mom…Yes, I know my heart rate’s dangerously elevated. That sound? I’m being shot at, Ma. Gotta go now. Love you much. Hugs and kisses. (Devyn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Love You, Heart, Kissing

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• Adron! Don’t you hurt him. (Kiara) I’m not going to hurt him, Mom. I’m going to kill him. (Young Adron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Young

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• His mom lived in Long Island for ten years or so. God rest her soul. And, although, she's... wait... your mom's still... your mom's still alive. Your dad passed. God bless her soul.

  Joe Biden

  Dad, Crazy, Years

  "Only ABC Highlights Biden's Gaffe About 'Dead' Mother of Irish PM, Stephanopoulos Lauds VP's 'Smile'". www.newsbusters.org. March 18, 2010.

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• Sunny, tell me truthfully, what are your intentions toward Talon? (Selena) What are you? His mom? I promise I’ll respect him in the morning. (Sunshine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Morning, Sunshine, Promise

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.664, Macmillan

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• Now don’t you be covering for him, Ash. (She wagged her finger at Nick.) Are you driving? (Cherise) No, Mom. I’m sitting. (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Covering, Ashes, Sitting

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• A few moments later Mom opened my door and peered in at me. "Logan Hansen is here to see you." If it had been anyone else in the world, I would have told my mother to send him away. Santa Claus himself could have shown up to explain his whereabouts since my childhood, and I would have turned him out.

  Janette Rallison

  Mother, Doors, Childhood

  Janette Rallison (2009). “All's Fair in Love, War and High School”, p.179, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I dropped my voice and stared into her eyes. I could tell she was trying hard not to look away. I was so furious I could have cheerfully ripped her head off. "But you're going to find out, Mom,' I said very softly."And it's gonna give you nightmares for the rest of your wasted life." Oh, my God, I was so badass. It was all I could do to not give a MWA HA HA!

  James Patterson

  Badass, Eye, Voice

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• Oh my God. What in—” I was going to be killed by two generations of beautiful women. While naked. “Mom,” Isabel snapped, interrupting. “Do you mind not staring? It’s totally perv.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Beautiful, Two, Mind

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.359, Scholastic Inc.

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• There was less than I’d expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept in the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled ‘DEAD SPIDERS.’ As if I hadn’t always known it was there. As if I wouldn’t want to look at dead spiders.

  Adam Rex

  Rainy Day, Eggs, Panty Hose

  Adam Rex (2013). “The True Meaning of Smekday”, p.8, A&C Black

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• Well your mom was right, in a way. What do you mean? He DID fall, right? So he wasn’t safe on the stool. Thanks, Annette. Thanks a lot. That’s exactly what I needed to hear right now. You’re a very inspiring person, you know that?

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Fall, Mean, Safe

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.23, Scholastic Inc.

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• You look like a handsome young man…although you might want to zip your fly. Mom! What? Should I have not told you and left it for everyone else to notice at the dance?

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Men, Looks, Want

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.55, Scholastic Inc.

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• Finally the kitchen clock said 5:17. It was time to roll out. I shouted for my mom, woke Jeffrey up, ran upstairs, changed into my concert clothes, put on my shoes, and was standing by the door to the garage by 5:19—chanting “Let’s go! Come on!” (Feel free to try that at home, by the way; moms love it!)

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Home, Doors, Shoes

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.140, Scholastic Inc.

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• As sure as this Earth is turnin, souls burnin / In search of higher learnin, turnin in every direction seeking direction / My moms cryin cause her insides are dyin / Her son tryin her patience, keep her heart racin / A million beats a minute, I know I push you to your limit / But it's this game, love—I'm caught up all in it / They make it so you can't prevent it, never give it / You gotta take it, can't fake it, I keep it authentic

  Jay-Z

  Heart, Son, Games

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