My mother looked back at me while my father drove. Her long auburn hair was shimmering in the flickers of light passing through the window from the oncoming highway traffic. Looking at her I admired her flawless, pearlescent skin. Her hazel eyes were flecked with bits of blue and teal like a true Mer. My mother was beautiful, and I looked nothing like her.
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Related I looked into her eyes, and saw my own staring back, the same peculiar shade, pale grey, flecked wit... CELIA REES I smiled and looked at her- there she was with such a genuine grin and twinkle in her eyes. I kissed... JORI NUNES The her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in ... DAVID MITCHELL My mother had her own horse. Her father drove a horse and carriage and his horses were the best. LARRY MORRISSEY Then I looked right at Mama, for the first time in what seemed like forever, and she wasn't looking ... KATHERINE HANNIGAN When my first daughter was born, my husband held her in his hands and said, 'My God, she's s... AYELET WALDMAN She looked at me, she rolled her eyes back, a tear came down her face and she died in my arms. EDWIN REYES My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I unders... ICE T I think it was my way of making her look beautiful every day and from the moment her hair was long e... DEENA EBRIGHT My mother made soft polenta often, and as a child, I would watch her stir until she looked like her ... LEO BUSCAGLIA I gazed into her beautiful green eyes and her fear melted. A shy smile tugged at her lips and at my ... KATIE MCGARRY Afterward she lies nestled against me, her hair tickling my face. I stroke her lightly, memorizing h... SARA GRUEN Amy pulls away and looks into my face. Her pale skin is blotchy red, her eyes are veined and shadowe... BETH REVIS His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It wa... ALICE SEBOLD When she reached me, she stopped and kissed my father on the cheek before taking my hand. However, w... J.J. MCAVOY When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I ... ERIC DICKERSON My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to g... JODI PICOULT How did I love her? Let me count the ways. The freckles on her nose like the shadow of a s... LAUREN OLIVER I remember the bad times as a succession of painful emotional snapshots: Me walking into the library... JUSTIN TRUDEAU Finally getting control of myself, I kissed her again, then brought my hand to her face, gently runn... NICHOLAS SPARKS And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months s... SUZANNE COLLINS Her skin glowed, her hair was luxurious, her eyes sparkled, and her tits were even more fantastic. ALICE CLAYTON Kieran glanced at her with shimmering eyes. Neither looked quite human: The black eye was too dark, ... CASSANDRA CLARE Silverkit took a step forward and peered past him at Oakheart, who was standing on the far side of t... ERIN HUNTER Her eyes were open, taking in my tired face... Her face twitched into what looked like a squinty smi... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH The satyr gave me a sympathetic glance. She was shorter than me by a foot, with large hazel eyes tha... JULIE KAGAWA My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and thr... MIKE NICHOLS It kind of scares me though, to keep wearing it every day like I do. What happens when I run out of ... KEARY TAYLOR Closing the door, Claudine looked at him. She looked at him, and while he waited for some expression... DOUGLAS WOOLF I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories ... DARYL HALL I didn't know I was about to be left with her idea of me; with her idea of my goodness pinned onto m... MARGARET ATWOOD I remember running down a road on my way to a nursery of flowers. I remember her smile and her laugh... JENNIFER NIVEN The other day at a drive-through, I reminded the teenage girl serving me that she forgot my drinks. ... NEIL CAVUTO The sisters' voices were almost identical, laughing mezzos tuned in childhood to the same pitch and ... ALLEGRA GOODMAN Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing. Her hair was as golden as the sun's rays, and her so... GASTON LEROUX The thirst we shared for one another made it clear that the distraction would only come from depriva... SHAWN KIRSTEN MARAVEL I've never looked back in my life. I don't want to see that stuff. I had blanked out a lot of stuff ... QUINCY JONES I looked up from the ground and glared at Scarlett, who helped Steven stand up. “You bitch.” I g... SARA MASSA I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she... NEIL GAIMAN I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a be... NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN I looked at her through the monitor and she was glowing. JAY CHANDRASEKHAR My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my pare... JON KABAT-ZINN Dylan looked promising. Tomboy. Tall and deliciously rangy. Her raven hair was unevenly sliced, stre... ANA B. GOOD It slowly began to dawn on me that I had been staring at her for an impossible amount of time. Lost ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes. FRANK DEFORD But for a mother who was submissive to the degree my mother was, it was OK to kill girls. For a fath... SOUAD The way she curls in my arms makes me feel like I’m the hero. I like being her hero. I like the wa... KATIE MCGARRY I see a lilly on thy brow, / With anguish moist and fever dew; / And on thy cheek a fading rose / Fa... JOHN KEATS When I looked further into my mother's history, I realised that her anxieties and her neuroses c... JOHN RHYS-DAVIES My father died when I was seven, leaving a widow and five sons, ranging in age from five to seventee... ARTHUR LEWIS A fight with her mother? It was certainly within the realm of possibility, I guessed. Elizabeth was ... JAMES PATTERSON At night I told myself a story, wordless, inside my head, one I liked far better than those in my bo... ALICE HOFFMAN You know your mother, Malfoy?” said Harry “That expression she’s got, like she’s got ... J.K. ROWLING Her instructions were to stay back and when people started to falter, she made her move. Once she wa... RALPH WHITE A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends. BETTY WHITE My mother was totally different from the mothers of my friends. She would never separate from me. In... CHANTAL AKERMAN We stared at each other for several moments, neither of us speaking or moving, and then I was in fro... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT I can't say I ever loved my mother; I admired her. HUMPHREY BOGART ... My mother, daroga, my poor, unhappy mother would never... let me kiss her... She used to run awa... GASTON LEROUX I was always impressed by Betty Ford and what she went through and how full of integrity she was, an... TERESA HEINZ There was nothing special with the way he looked at her but her heart raced even with a glance. PUSHPA RANA And then there was her face: her white skin, her brown eyes, and her expression, so soft and beautif... NATSUO KIRINO She looked like she was dying. Her hands were black, her lips were black, her face was purple. BRIAN HAUSLER When I see her,” I said, “it’s like - I don’t know what it’s like. It’s like I never saw... SARAH WATERS I wanted to feel like I could open my mouth and fill it with Pepper's flesh, close my teeth on her s... MARY WORONOV While her high cheekbones and sensual mouth added to her beauty, it was her eyes that caught him. Th... DONNA GRANT This week was the first anniversary of the death of my father and I had long promised my mother we w... JUERGEN KLINSMANN My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember h... JOHN LLOYD YOUNG They all turned to the dark-haired woman standing quietly to the side and slightly behind Aunt Charl... JULIA QUINN My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed, and she would share her dreams with me. LIZ MURRAY My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my succe... GEORGE WASHINGTON My aunt looked like Lucille Ball, and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was in... SANDRA LERNER I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest ... SARA GRUEN I tilted my head and tossed my hair back, baring my neck. I saw her hesitate, but the sight of my ne... RICHELLE MEAD My mom used to tell me, “I don’t like my mother, but I love her. ASPEN MATIS There was something about my face,she said, that she couldn't stand. Something about my eyes, the wa... TAHEREH MAFI Her grandmother was a drug dealer. Her mother was a drug addict, and she never knew her father. Nico... GARY W. ADAIR I am a lot like my mother watching her pennies. JANELLE WITTENBURG My Mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my Mother. I attribute all my s... GEORGE WASHINGTON I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I misse... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my ... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Her mother was an overwhelming force, ... Her father was emphatic and imperious. ARTHUR SCHLESINGER The panels of her corset were portals to deep space. With every waltz, her dance partner circled the... T.R. DARLING There were times when I would finish writing a sequence and I would see the face of my very well-man... DOUG WRIGHT With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets—what nonsense was he ... VIRGINIA WOOLF Dottie perched on the edge of the desk, crossed her legs, and looked at me coyly over her highball. ... STETSON KENNEDY Losing Sarah and my boy was the hardest thing I've ever lived through. But even then, you see, I kne... JENNIFER ASHLEY I stroke her lightly, memorizing her body. I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want ... SARA GRUEN For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, / And beheld among the simple ones, I di... BIBLE As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I... KATHA POLLITT My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own ... ANGELINA JOLIE Mine eyes
Were not in fault, for she was beautiful;
Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop... ROBERT DE NIRO Her taste still teased my tongue, and her touch tipped my fingers. Her smile licked my lips, and her... J. RAYMOND Watching the crackling fire, relishing the trusting weight of her head on his shoulder, Cam stroked ... LISA KLEYPAS Grace stopped in the door, dimly silhouetted by the dull gray morning light, and looked back at me, ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I looked on my stomach and saw Frieda Rebecca, white as flour with the cream that covers new babies,... SYLVIA PLATH Hermione drew herself to her full height; her eyes were narrowed and her hair seemed to crackle with... J.K. ROWLING For the second time since meeting her, Echo looked as if I’d slapped her. Water pooled at the bott... KATIE MCGARRY
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