My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.
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I've been trying so hard not to become my mother, I didn't... FRIENDS I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She ... YUVRAJ SINGH My mother kept calling me out of myself. She wanted to show me a picture, the first picture from the... TAMARA FAITH BERGER So my parents, particularly my mother, she noticed that I seemed to be interested, so on my seventh ... HERBIE HANCOCK I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my ... LARS VON TRIER My mother worked hard for a long time and now I work hard to make sure that she doesn't have to work... JOHN AVERY She loved him, even though it was so hard to love anybody else after loving my dad. I think I knew t... MARGARET MCMULLAN I've had to ban my mum from coming to see me play. She gets so nervous before any show. I've... BIRDY My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It d... HOLLY MARIE COMBS She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sou... DAVID MITCHELL And that was it; it was so easy for her. My own memories did not even belong to me. But I knew she w... SARAH DESSEN She fastens her other hand securely on my wrist, and moves so that she's behind me. Good job, angel.... KATIE MCGARRY My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playin... RICKEY HENDERSON I just feel so blessed to have had the time that I had with my mother. She made it so impactful in t... KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE My mother is a natural care giver, ... When she would do something for me, I would thank her, and sh... ANGELA MOORE My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mo... TYLER PERRY ...So to be fast to don't be long and to try to be short... If you want to play the best game, creat... DEYTH BANGER Quitting’s not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy.�... GAYLE FORMAN My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest tri... DAVID BLAINE My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and ... ALICE MUNRO My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would... ISIDOR ISAAC RABI My mother does not own my hands, though she works hard to train them. My mother does not own m... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH I have lived long enough to see God make my enemies my footstool not even footsteps. PATIENCE JOHNSON Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The ... JOHN GREEN She whispers in my ear: ‘"Tell me that you wan' fuck me hard, make me sweat." In the excitement, s... JOE DUNTHORNE My mother's rules had to do with feminine deportment, so I never played hard enough to break a t... BHARATI MUKHERJEE My joke is that my father was a minister and my mother was an English teacher, so I'm trained to... LIBBA BRAY My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It doesn... HOLLY MARIE COMBS I thought she was going to stuff me because she was coming right at my face. But I'm lucky I got it ... LIZ GRUBER My mother got to read the book in print ... before she died and she was pleased with it. KARLA REINHARD My mother only called when she wanted things. She doesn't know me, so how could she have a feeling f... ANITA BAKER Ax.” Sadie is breathless as she caresses the angular lines of my face. “I love you so much. You�... SIOBHAN DAVIS My wife Neelam is a North Indian, so she will make North Indian food, while my mother will make Beng... RONIT ROY Somebody ripped their pants open at my wedding, dipping my mother. My mother is not a lady who throw... MELISSA MCCARTHY I'm just so sorry my wife and son aren't here to enjoy all this. Because they worked so hard for me.... BILLY JOE SHAVER Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So wh... ANDY WARHOL I was a queen, and you took away my crown, a wife, and you killed my huband, a mother, and you took ... MARIE ANTOINETTE My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't... JOAN RIVERS I know in my mind that she went right up to heaven. I know she forgave her mother. She knows her mot... JENNIFER CZAJKA I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you de... MARIE ANTOINETTE I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you depr... MARIE ANTOINETTE REBECCA: If you sit long enough, maybe everything becomes clear. Maybe you can make sense of al... MARIE CLEMENTS My mother was amazing. I guess, in our community, if you wanted to get by you had to work hard. So s... URSULA BURNS They expect a certain amount of leniency or mercy from me because I'm a woman, and if you've... LORETTA LYNCH My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver plat... JILL SCOTT My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff. LAUREN GRAHAM My biggest regret is that my mother didn't see me walk on to that London Palladium stage, being ... BRUCE FORSYTH My mom tells me I always do things the hard way. She tells me doing it the easy way is so much bette... BRAD CLARK I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my siste... NATE ROBINSON She has changed my whole life after my mom passed away; she's like my mother, she is. GLORIA GOMEZ Yes, she is." He looks at me, his face carved in pain. "She is dying, Sara. She will die, either ton... JODI PICOULT She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the fore... GAYLE FORMAN What’s bothering me is you always seem ready to snap my head off my shoulders and I’m not comfor... JUSTINE DELL My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, a... DONATELLA VERSACE I steal a kiss from her sleeping shadow moves. 'Cause I'll always miss her wherever she goes. And I... BILLY CORGAN My mate is really, really weird. She is also absolutely covered in brown, mushy clay. SHAY SAVAGE That is just what Jodi can do so well. She took over the game. She ran the offense well, played good... AMY SILVERMAN Another tug and a yank at my chestnut curls and she snarls at me, “You are so much like her.” GWENN WRIGHT God! You'll do anything to avoid it.' Avoid what?' my mother said. The past,' Caroline sai... SARAH DESSEN But I know just what it feels like to have a voice in the back of my head, like a face that I hold i... LINKIN PARK I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I'm trying to be what my mother wasn't for me. M... DOROTHY HAMILL I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good... JOHN GREEN I do work too hard sometimes, but my mom is such an inspiration. She tells me to 'chill out'... JOSH PECK My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of... RONDA ROUSEY Everything just feels so empty without her. She was more a parent to me than my birth parents were. ... ALYSON NOEL When I was fourteen, I thought a lot about killing myself—it’s a hobby today, but at age fourtee... GILLIAN FLYNN That it should come to this,
But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,
So excellent a ki... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's ... NAOMI CAMPBELL It’s lucky it’s dark. I haven’t blushed so much since Madam Pomfrey told me she liked my new e... J.K. ROWLING I turn to head outside when the boys make their way back into the house. Kel stops in the doorway an... COLLEEN HOOVER The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me. GEORGE GERSHWIN Nothing they say or do can ever change the man you are,” Trinity continued. “A man I love with a... C.A. HARMS I just want that person to know how hard this is for my family, for my son. I pray everyday that she... KAREN CASEY A 22-caliber bullet can travel as fast as 1,022 mph. I learned that at Quantico. However... FRANCIS BAREL My mother is not a CIA agent, but she's an Italian mother, and she'd do anything for her son... ADRIANO GIANNINI Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so... GARY F EVANS... When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I craw... SYLVIA PLATH And she hugged me. And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms. And she kisse... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I think it’s like when you lose something so close to you, it’s like losing yourself. That’s w... AVA DELLAIRA My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicag... WESLEY CLARK My cut is blunt and futuristic, and Nicki Minaj started wearing that bob on her head after she came ... LIL MAMA My mother doesn't really embarrass me. Even when I was young. She understands my career. BOW WOW It’s your hero complex, isn’t it? You should see someone about that.” “Right after I g... BRYNN KELLY I was playing it for [my best friend] and I was like, 'I don't know if I should even bring it to Ril... JENNY LEWIS I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the c... LARISA OLEYNIK She expected a lot of me. When I was in fourth grade working on a book report, she made me start the... DAISY WHITNEY My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working. DEAN STOCKWELL They got under each of my shoulders and pulled me up, Padma walking in front of me and holding her a... KIERA CASS It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what peop... AARON KOBLIN I'm not so disappointed. I think J.J. just played incredible. I think she would have been very hard ... ANNIKA SORENSTAM She kept encouraging me when I was young, and so I just accepted it ? this was what I was going to d... JUDITH ROSSNER My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is r... AERIN LAUDER
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JODI PICOULT It was that she truly believed you could be fourteen when you learned how love could change the spee... JODI PICOULT Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with someone else? JODI PICOULT ...in the blink of an eye, you might reinvent yourself...the person you were yesterday might not be ... JODI PICOULT I'm really proud of ( JODI PICOULT When you read the art, JODI PICOULT You have to create characters who will whisk people away from their ordinary lives. JODI PICOULT Vengeance was a funny thing: You wanted the satisfaction of knowing it had occurred, but you never w... JODI PICOULT In the wake of a disaster, the last thing you needed to do was set off another bomb; instead, you wa... JODI PICOULT They were at different places in the same relationship and like anything that's out of alighment, th... JODI PICOULT She wondered how many hours it had been since she'd talked out loud. If you didn't use your voice, e... JODI PICOULT The truth is the truth. JODI PICOULT Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we l... JODI PICOULT High school students were cannibals; they fed off your broken heart while you watched and then shrug... JODI PICOULT When heaven breaks, who fixes it? JODI PICOULT Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgement D... JODI PICOULT newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas JODI PICOULT From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, c... JODI PICOULT His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of pe... JODI PICOULT Antony was also obsessive, judgmental, and paranoid. JODI PICOULT Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there. JODI PICOULT Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life. JODI PICOULT When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a p... JODI PICOULT I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere alon... JODI PICOULT Other people look at me and think: That poor woman; she has a child with a disability. But al... JODI PICOULT