Jessica Urlichs > Quotes

“There’s a life in the future and it’s coming for us every day. So let’s get swept up in the beautiful chaos in front of us. Let’s make the future wait a little longer. Because I love this life with you so much, this one right now.”
― Jessica Urlichs

“You'll always be my baby,
just heavier to hold”
― Jessica Urlichs, My After All: Poetry & Prose for Mothers

“For I was your sun, the only warmth you needed before you saw a sunrise with your own eyes.
I was your star, before they dusted across your gaze with possibility and wonder.
I was your moon, your only pull, before you noticed the comforting light in the nights blanket.
I was your universe for such a short while, until you saw there was so much more.
But I will always be the earth, your roots grew here.
And you will always be my world.”
― Jessica Urlichs, From One Mom to a Mother: Poetry & Momisms

“I want to tell you everything I know,
carry you and guide you.
Yet somehow,
as your tiny finger points to things in wonder
and your eyes meet mine,
the paradigm shifts.
I once thought I was to show you the world,
when all along you came to show me.”
― Jessica Urlichs, From One Mom to a Mother: Poetry & Momisms

“I’d tell her that she is moving mountains, even when she loses her footing.
Especially, when she loses her footing.”
― Jessica Urlichs, From One Mom to a Mother: Poetry & Momisms

“A mother’s love is not invisible.
It doesn’t boast or take, it only offers.
Everything you do, they see.
And everything you do, is seen through them.”
― Jessica Urlichs, My After All: Poetry & Prose for Mothers

“When the weight of being someone’s everything is as heavy as it is light.”
― Jessica Urlichs, My After All: Poetry & Prose for Mothers

“A mother’s love is not invisible.
It doesn’t boast or take, it only offers.”
― Jessica Urlichs, My After All: Poetry & Prose for Mothers

“When I entered motherhood I walked through a little door, 'This Is Motherhood' it read.
Everyone sat there in stripey tops
Exchanging pleasantries.
Things scattered all over the floor
Bags over flowing
Nervous smiles
Connected by motherhood
Disconnected by unspoken truths
Then someone said, "I love being a Mum,
but this is also really hard".
Then suddenly I didn't feel alone anymore.”
― Jessica Urlichs, From One Mom to a Mother: Poetry & Momisms

“You are not ‘just’ anything
Not just a woman
Or just a friend
A wife
A partner
Or just a mother
You are a universe
Made up of waves that brought life
Stars that hold dreams
Landscapes of home
Rocks that will crumble but will always remain
The winds gentle sway, and strongest roar
You are someone’s ‘all’
And ‘all’ is not lost
You are a mother
But never, just”
― Jessica Urlichs, All I See Is You: Poems and Proses on Motherhood

“Motherhood isn't a typical love story, it's the raw unedited version with all the outtakes, which is what makes it the most beautiful love story of all”
― Jessica Urlichs, From One Mom to a Mother: Poetry & Momisms

“Silence on the outside, sirens on the inside - The Mental Load”
― Jessica Urlichs, They Bloom Because of You: Poems on the Infinite Love, Growth, and Magic of Motherhood

“They forget that we roared so they could take their first breath, made milk from our blood then they question our strength- We'll Come Out With Wings”
― Jessica Urlichs

“Love is a silent language that speaks in volumes”
― Jessica Urlichs, From One Mom to a Mother: Poetry & Momisms

“You’ll smile because I’m teaching you things about yourself you didn’t
know, and I’ll smile because you’ve been doing that to me for years.”
― Jessica Urlichs, My After All: Poetry & Prose for Mothers

“This is the hardest, yet most rewarding job in the world.
You are not just a person.
You’re a place.
You are someone’s home.
You are a mother”
― Jessica Urlichs, My After All: Poetry & Prose for Mothers