"I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples."
— Emily Giffin (Baby Proof)

"Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

""Dad, do you have a baseball bat in your room? I want to borrow it for a minute.""
— Stephenie Meyer

"You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can end up focusing on misleading factors. Stuff that really has more to do with personality-the fact that some people are simply more expressive or emotional or needy in a relationship. But beyond such smokescreens, the answer is there. Love is seldom-almost never-an even proposition."
— Emily Giffin (Baby Proof)

"You can love someone you mistrust."
— Emily Giffin (Baby Proof)

"My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant."
— Steven Wright

"The smile that flickers on a baby’s lips when he sleeps- does anyone know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning."
— Rabindranath Tagore

"You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change."
— Sue Grafton (T is for Trespass)

"I am a loving and generous wife, friend, daughter, sister. I enjoy my job, and I feel like I make a difference with the volunteer work I do. I know I am doing all I can to have a baby, and I know that, one way or another, I will have a wonderful family."
— unknown - infertility patient

"Here is something that Peach, one of the Casserole Queens, says about men and women and love. You know that scene in Romeo and Juliet, where Romeo is standing on the ground looking longingly at Juliet on the balcony above him? One of the most romantic moments in all of literary history? Peach says there's no way that Romeo was standing down there to profess his undying devotion. The truth, Peach says, is that Romeo was just trying to look up Juliet's skirt."
— Deb Caletti (Honey, Baby, Sweetheart)

""You want to fly in jets, and I just want to fly"
-Baby Carlyle"
— Cecily von Ziegesar (You Just Can't Get Enough)

"I write so that my handful of pebbles, cast daily into still waters, will produce a ripple. "
— Anne Schroeder

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Blanche: "You wouldn't be able to do these awful things to me if I wasn't in this chair."
Jane: "But ya AAH Blanche, ya AAH in that chair!"


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— Betty Davis

"When a new baby is expected mother has 9 months to prepare the family and the kitchen for her departure!"
— Nursing Mothers' Association of Australia (NMAA Cooks)

"Mrs. Pocket was at home, and was in a little difficulty, on account of the baby's having been accommodated with a needle case to keep him quiet during the unaccountable absence (with a relative in the Foot Guards) of Millers. And more needles were missing than it could be regarded as quite wholesome for a patient of such tender years either to apply externally or to take as a tonic."
— Charles Dickens

"A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul."
— Barbara Kingsolver (The Poisonwood Bible)

"I don't think there is a higher, or more peaceful bliss than the feeling of rocking a baby to sleep."
— Alysha Speer

"A baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other. "
— Ronald Reagan

"Norah looked at her son’s tiny face, surprised, as always, by his name. he had not grown into it yet, he still wore it like a wrist band, something that might easily slip off and disappear. She had read about people – where? she could not remember this either – who refused to name their children for several weeks, feeling them to be not yet of the earth, suspended still between two worlds."
— Kim Edwards (The Memory Keeper's Daughter)

"What manner of mind considers this holy estate [pregnancy] which women are privileged by the Almighty to attain as a slur upon the social conscience?"
— Grantly Dick-Read

"I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wonder - that gets watered or it doesn't."
— Dean Koontz (Relentless: A Novel)