The Missing Quotes

“I fall asleep and dream that Mama and my former psychologist are sitting across from me, at either end of the sofa, talking. And that, every once in a while, Mama leans forward to feel my forehead or straighten the pillow she has slipped under my head. In my dream, I hear the psychologist say: So your friend was in love with your husband? Was that why she told him about the slap? To make him leave you? “Or”
― Caroline Eriksson, The Missing

“L'amore di una madre è sconfinato, feroce e bellissimo.”
― Caroline Eriksson, The Missing

“A good mother is not shaped by circumstances. She is the one who decides how to shape them.”
― Caroline Eriksson, The Missing

“I’m sitting in the bow, closing my eyes to the water spraying up into my face, fighting against the nausea that churns inside my body and matches the movement of the boat.”
― Caroline Eriksson, The Missing