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“A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted belief.”
― Hope Edelman, Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

“I do know that mother loss can be heartbreaking at any age. No matter how old we are, we yearn for a mother’s love throughout our lives, reaching for the security and comfort we believe only she can provide at times of illness, transition, or stress.”
― Hope Edelman, Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

“When a mother dies too young, something inside her daughter always feels incomplete. There’s a missing piece she continues to look for, an emptiness she keeps trying to fill. The”
― Hope Edelman, Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

“I knew without doubt that my mother’s death had irrevocably altered who I was and who I would become. When a parent dies young, explains Maxine Harris, PhD, in The Loss That Is Forever, children have a personal encounter with death that influences the way they see the world for the rest of their lives. “Some events are so big and so powerful that they cannot help but change everything they touch,” she writes. How could all my thoughts and feelings, then, not be traced back to the event that had created such a jagged fault line through my history, dividing it into a permanent Before and After?”
― Hope Edelman, Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss