McKell > McKell's Quotes

“No one tells you now to mother. It is presumed to be buried within you, a deep, primordial instinct that awakens in your body—in your breast —when the time is right.”
― Rachel Hochhauser, Lady Tremaine

“No one tells you how to mother. It is presumed to be buried within you, a deep primordial instinct that awakens in your body—in your breast—when the time is right. We mothers are expected to have that instinct. Our intuition. Our supernatural understanding of our children's habits and bodies and rhythms. You learn to trust your knowledge.”
― Rachel Hochhauser, Lady Tremaine

“Because our happiness was not overwhelming—because it was subtle and constant and threaded through every day and every interaction— I did not know to covet it, to hold on to it, that it might suddenly be taken away.”
― Rachel Hochhauser, Lady Tremaine