Carrie Vottero

“Find me a mother whose heart is not carved into the likeness of her children.”
― Catherine Newman, Wreck

“Mothers like her will light the last night on earth.”
― Amity Gaige, Heartwood

“Dogs and books, two excellent defenses against solitude and despair.”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“She glanced up to see that her mother was doing the same and she wanted to say, Do you think of her, do you still catch yourself listening for her footsteps, for her voice, for the sound of her breathing at night, because I do, all the time. I still think that one day I might wake and she will be there, next to me, again; there will have been some wrinkle or pleat in time and we will be back to where we were, when she was living and breathing.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet