The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you'd be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.
From the moment she was born... I felt an instant, radical, unconditional love that redefined love.
The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter.
I have a daughter I have never held. She has a scent I have never smelled She has a name I have never yelled. She has a mother who has already failed. Love, Kenna
I've only just arrived, Kate. It may surprise you to learn that you were my top priority.
There is an emptiness inside of me – a void that will never be filled. No one in your life will ever love you as your mother does. There is no love as pure, unconditional and strong as a mother's love. And I will never be loved that way again.
Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.
A mother knows what her child’s gone through, even if she didn’t see it herself.
Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.
Mothers, I believe, intoxicate us. We idolise them and take them for granted. We hate them and blame them and exalt them more thoroughly than anyone else in our lives. We sift through the evidence of their love, reassure ourselves of their affection and its biological genesis. We can steal and lie and leave and they will love us.
A smile puts you on the right track. A smile makes the world a beautiful place. When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life.
Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.