Elizabeth

“Tea had featured heavily in the past fortnight. Miriam sometimes felt her belly sloshing with it, like a waterbed, yet still she took tea when it was proffered, for the symbolism, she supposed - solicitude, comfort, warmth. It is the English way, after all.”
― Susie Steiner, Missing, Presumed

“​...she wonders if it isn't genetic - the whole personal tidiness thing. One is destined to become one's mother, after all. This thought makes her smile to herself - there are worse things.”
― Susie Steiner, Missing, Presumed

“She knows how judgemental mothers are, how good it feels to sit in judgement of someone else.”
― Shari Lapena, The Couple Next Door

“This is Daniela with an energy like the first time we met fifteen years ago, before years of life-the normalcy, the elation, the depression, the compromise-transformed her into the woman who now shares my bed: amazing mother, amazing wife, but fighting always against the whispers of what might have been.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter