Motherless Children Quotes

“Her voice caught. She swallowed and tried to goon. "It was the wallet--that's how I knew it was Michael," she said. "I bought it for him our last Christmas together." She started to cry again, softly and with a sense of deflation, oxygen leaking out slowly as she sank into herself, salty tears falling.”
― Attica Locke, Pleasantville

“Her voice caught. She swallowed and tried to go on. "It was the wallet--that's how I knew it was Michael," she said. "I bought it for him our last Christmas together." She started to cry again, softly and with a sense of deflation, oxygen leaking out slowly as she sank into herself, salty tears falling.”
― Attica Locke, Pleasantville

“Elodie just wasn't a very grand, glossy person, and she was terrible with change. "Little wonder" - this was the psychologist she'd seen for a time when she first went up to Oxford. "You lost your mother. It's one of the most significant and frightening changes that a child can experience." Such loss, Elodie was reliably informed by Dr. Judith Davies ("Call me Jude") after three months of weekly sessions in the warm front room of her Edwardian house, couldn't help but embed itself within a person's psyche.

"You mean it's going to affect my every life decision?" Elodie had asked.

"I do."

"Forever?"

"Most likely."

She had stopped seeing Dr. Davies ("It's Jude") soon after that. There hadn't seemed much point.”
― Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter