Lady Tremaine Quotes

“My experience of happiness is that it comes in two forms: a potent dose so extreme that you are overwhelmed with fear it will disappear, or a subtle kind that envelops you with such stealth you’re hardly aware of its presence.”
― Rachel Hochhauser, Lady Tremaine

“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

“My book of maxims—life, distilled—would be short:

You do not need to be afraid. You do not have to be good. You do not need to hide your fleshy interiors behind a carapace of frills and lace. Life is not meant for measurement.

There is but one beat to heed. Live like this and you will know with certainty:

You are the scariest thing in the woods.”
― Rachel Hochhauser, Lady Tremaine

“Any mother who tells you she loves all her children—or appraises them—equally is lying. There is no way to measure or balance love. Love is an animal of its own bidding and inclination; it prowls and pounces and feels; it grows and it hurts and it withers. My love for the girls was ranging and reaching. It assessed them because assessment was a part of protection. It saw their differences”
― Rachel Hochhauser, Lady Tremaine

“My experience of happiness is that it comes in two forms: a potent dose so extreme that you are overwhelmed with fear it will disappear, or a subtle kind that envelops you with such stealth you’re hardly aware of its presence. Both kinds are defined by their inverse. Extreme happiness is measured and held against its potential absence. Contentedness is only recognized once it’s gone.”
― 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

“couldn’t help but think, as we walked around a man polishing a row of decorative weapons, that burdens were easier to bear when you sat on feather pillows.”
― Rachel Hochhauser, Lady Tremaine

“Any mother who tells you she loves all her children—or appraises them—equally is lying. There is no way to measure or balance love. Love is an animal of its own bidding and inclination; it prowls and pounces and feels; it grows and it hurts and it withers. My love for the girls was ranging and reaching. It assessed them because assessment was a part of protection. It saw their differences, because to ignore them would be to love them less. The love of a mother does away with scales and measurements altogether; it envelops and understands and embraces what is cracked along with what is beautiful.”
― Rachel Hochhauser, Lady Tremaine

“Marriage is not a savior. Just a choice. And while the blue dress still sits in paper, it will serve as a witness of, not a cause for, happiness.”
― Rachel Hochhauser, Lady Tremaine

“There is no way to measure or balance love. Love is an animal of its own bidding and inclination; it prowls and pounces and feels; it grows and it hurts and it withers.”
― Rachel Hochhauser, Lady Tremaine

“A map is made and then the land changes and the map does not change with it. And yet we respect maps as if they are the law”
― Rachel Hochhauser, Lady Tremaine

“I have wondered: Was it deceitful to orchestrate a marriage based on my needs? We are all designed to sate our desires—and what is hunger if not a drive to survive? Is deceit less insidious if it is with noble purpose? There is nothing more noble than taking care of children—even if they are your own.”
― Rachel Hochhauser, Lady Tremaine