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Heather Colvin

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“She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back.”
― Shannon Celebi, Driving Off Bridges

tags: heart, mother, motherhood, mothers, mothers-love, selfish, selfishness, son, sons, sons-and-mothers, wicked, wickedness

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“Oh, chere," said Moma softly. "Dying isn't the worst thing that's ever happened to me. It's just the only thing I won't live through.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Burn for You

tags: death, death-and-love, love, mothers-and-daughters, mothers-love

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“A mother's love gives us the best inspiration and energy to grow up as a human being in this garden of humanity”
― Debasish Mridha

tags: grow-up, mother, mothers-love

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“The most painful thing about the woman whose mother did not want her was not her mothers lack of love, but that in seeing herself the way her mother saw her, she cut herself off from her own love.
We believe that because being wanted and being seen and being loved once depended on someone else, they still do.”
― Geneen Roth, Appetites: On the Search for True Nourishment

tags: be-seen, mothers-love, self-love

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