Like Mother, Like Daughter Quotes

“Once when I was little, she tried to ban Play-doh. Even she eventually realized that was over the top.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Like Mother, Like Daughter

“I’m learning to accept the fact that maybe some people—some men especially—will forever emerge from disasters unscathed. Anyway, I choose to believe that, deep down, Mark knows what he did was wrong, and the true punishment will be having to live with that guilt.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Like Mother, Like Daughter

“You McHughs are all alike. You come in and use people and ruin shit and do whatever you want. All you care about is yourselves.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Like Mother, Like Daughter

“Come on,” Phil said quietly. “You and I both know there’s a price for everything. And everyone.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Like Mother, Like Daughter

“When bad things like this happen, it’s almost always someone close to the victim who is responsible. Someone with a motive, like money or an affair.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Like Mother, Like Daughter

“The truth was, Mark had known all along. He’d helped Darden use me.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Like Mother, Like Daughter

“Kat shouldn’t be working in the middle of the night, Mark. People need sleep. No case or client is worth making yourself sick.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Like Mother, Like Daughter

“But I had to lay it all out for Mark now: that Darden had killed Doug to scapegoat him for knowingly leaving a drug on the market that they knew was hurting babies, when Doug had, in fact, tried to hold them accountable.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Like Mother, Like Daughter

“You don’t have to worry about anything. Because no one is counting on you to fix anything! What a fucking luxury that must be!”
― Kimberly McCreight, Like Mother, Like Daughter

“It’s still my house, remember?” He puffs up his chest when he says it. It was never your house. She paid for everything.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Like Mother, Like Daughter

“Listen, it’s terrible what happened to this guy. He had a daughter, I know. And Phil feels bad, of course, that the accident happened on his way to that meeting. It’s an awful, regrettable tragedy. But Doug Sinclair is not our client, Kat—Darden is. As you are aware, we have a fiduciary obligation to do what is in their best interest.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Like Mother, Like Daughter

“We’ve been trying to keep it confidential, for Jules’s sake. She’s had something of an episode. Manic. Your mother knew. She’d been trying to help. For the sake of the other employees’ well-being, we had to let Jules go.” He steps closer. “I’m sorry. I know the last thing you need is … well, something else.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Like Mother, Like Daughter

“The office was so Aidan: all that surface charm—never mind the reality that his movies cost us money. And Veritas? So grandiose.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Like Mother, Like Daughter

“As though we didn’t live off my income. I could only imagine what he’d have said if he knew how I actually spent my days.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Like Mother, Like Daughter

“But the money had never been what made his childhood special, Aidan insisted; it was the love and security, which did indeed sound enviable. In fact, it sounded like exactly what I’d been longing for my entire isolated life.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Like Mother, Like Daughter

“To say she’s type A is putting it mildly. And it’s not only my clothes and makeup she’s obsessed with controlling. A single dirty dish in the sink or a stray pile of crumbs on the counter and she freaks out. It’s like she can’t handle any sign that humans actually live in our home.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Like Mother, Like Daughter

“My mom was always pushing me to be someone different. When all I wanted was for her to love me as I was. For an hour we’ve”
― Kimberly McCreight, Like Mother, Like Daughter

“Of course, she was an annoyingly strong open-water swimmer, and the way she obsessed about the whole thing made me want to scream.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Like Mother, Like Daughter

“but you could never outsource being a mother. And now here was Janine”
― Kimberly McCreight, Like Mother, Like Daughter

“It was hard to believe in your maternal instincts when you’d never had a mother. My parents had disappeared”
― Kimberly McCreight, Like Mother, Like Daughter