Like Mother, Like Daughter Quotes

“That was the lesson she was trying to teach Sophia - that money wasn't everything. Being happy was all that mattered. And to be happy, you had to find your passion.”
― Dawn Goodwin, Like Mother, Like Daughter

“Let us be who we are. let us make mistakes. We've heard you; now hear us”
― Dawn Goodwin, Like Mother, Like Daughter

“I am slowly coming to realise that life is too short to do something just to please someone else. You don't know how long you have, so you should fill it with things you enjoy, people you enjoy being around, so that when it comes down to it, you have no regrets”
― Dawn Goodwin, Like Mother, Like Daughter

“Women love to tear each other down, don't they?”
― Dawn Goodwin, Like Mother, Like Daughter

“I wish you could take your time, slow down, see that everything doesn't have to be immediate. Good friends will come; your reason for being will present itself. And sometimes, the best friend you can have is yourself”
― Dawn Goodwin, Like Mother, Like Daughter

“Christina lets Sophia be herself, who she wants to be, not some sad version of what she wishes she had become”
― Dawn Goodwin, Like Mother, Like Daughter

“If he had learned anything from recent events, it was that you couldn't avoid a problem forever. Eventually it would grow, taking up all available space until it demanded your attention”
― Dawn Goodwin, Like Mother, Like Daughter

“Teenagers these days were such a juxtaposition of extreme control and wild excess”
― Dawn Goodwin, Like Mother, Like Daughter

“She sometimes wondered what could've happened if they had talked about it afterwards calmly, rationally, but when it came to your kids, there was no sense of calm when you thought they had been wronged. Christina had seen it one way and Lisa another. It was as simple and as complicated as that”
― Dawn Goodwin, Like Mother, Like Daughter

“Sophia had learned over the years that her mother only heard what she wanted to hear, selectively ignoring the parts that she didn't find relevant”
― Dawn Goodwin, Like Mother, Like Daughter

“Sophia liked tidiness and routine, perhaps because Christina did not. Order out of chaos. Taking control when there was none”
― Dawn Goodwin, Like Mother, Like Daughter

“Some women just seemed to wake up on the right side of the bed every day, while Lisa felt like she was tumbling out of the wrong side more often than not, then putting he knickers on inside out and struggling through the day trying to work out why she felt off kilter”
― Dawn Goodwin, Like Mother, Like Daughter