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Gregory Maguire
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Wicked: The Life and Times of
We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.
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Joanne Harris
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The Girl with No Shadow
Children are knives, my mother once said. They don't mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don't we, we clasp them until the blood flows.
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Betty Smith
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
It's come at last," she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't enough food in the house you pretended that you weren't hungry so they could have more. In the cold of a winter's night you got up and put your blanket on their bed so they wouldn't be cold. You'd kill anyone who tried to harm them - I tried my best to kill that man in the hallway. Then one sunny day, they walk out in all innocence and they walk right into the grief that you'd give your life to spare them from.
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Jacqueline Carey
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Kushiel's Chosen
... mothers have wept less, bidding farewell to their children. At least, mine certainly did.
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Mary Karr
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Cherry: A Memoir
Her mother's injunction on competing with other girls is a challenge, a gauntlet thrown down: "You just have to be smarter than the ones who are prettier and prettier than the ones who are smarter
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Donna Tartt
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The Goldfinch
Things would have turned out better is she had lived. As it was, she died when I was kid;and thought everything that happened to me since then is thoroughly my own fault, still when I lost her I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, to some more populated or congenial life.
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Donna Tartt
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The Goldfinch
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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Donna Tartt
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The Goldfinch
I missed her so much I wanted to die: a hard, physical longing, like a craving for air underwater. Lying awake, I tried to recall all my best memories of her-to freeze her in my mind so I wouldn't forget her-but instead of birthdays and happy times I kept remembering things like how a few days before she was killed she'd stopped me halfway out the door to pick a thread off my school jacket. For some reason, it was one of the clearest memories I had of her: her knitted eyebrows, the precise gesture of her reaching out to me, everything. Several times too-drifting uneasily between dreaming and sleep-I sat up suddenly in bed at the sound of her voice speaking clearly in my head, remarks she might conceivably have made at some point but that I didn't actually remember, things like Throw me an apple, would you? and I wonder if this buttons up the front or the back? and This sofa is in a terrible state of disreputableness.
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Audrey Niffenegger
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The Time Traveler's Wife
I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room
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Audrey Niffenegger
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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.
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Audrey Niffenegger
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The Time Traveler's Wife
one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.
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Jonathan Franzen
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The Discomfort Zone: A
She pondered the arrangements of the paintings on a wall like a writer pondered commas.
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