That Kind of Mother Quotes

“The television has done something to us. To human beings. We can see so much, but maybe we weren’t made to see this much. Maybe it’s too much.”
― Rumaan Alam, That Kind of Mother

“Rebecca didn’t know what was the better luck: to have a bad parent you’re ever trying to outperform or a good one to whom you can never hope to catch up.”
― Rumaan Alam, That Kind of Mother

“They were too young to appreciate the luck and chance that goes into making a person.”
― Rumaan Alam, That Kind of Mother

“She couldn’t imagine loving someone so much that you mourned their absence even in their presence.”
― Rumaan Alam, That Kind of Mother

“smells. “I loved the Icarus part, most.”
― Rumaan Alam, That Kind of Mother

“She waited for that deeper, transcendent feeling to arrive, like a teenager who’s just tried drugs for the first time, nervously running mental diagnostics, am I feeling yet?”
― Rumaan Alam, That Kind of Mother

“But maybe it’s good, to remember that, that happily ever after is for television shows. Real romance, real marriage—life has so many little disappointments, all these paths you never thought you’d take.”
― Rumaan Alam, That Kind of Mother

“say. I think there’s something—an older person and a very young person. There’s a kind of magic there. They’re both right at the fringes of life. There’s some sort of understanding. A common language, or like—they just know something about each other.”
― Rumaan Alam, That Kind of Mother

“To be a mother was to bake.”
― Rumaan Alam, That Kind of Mother

“that when I gave in to motherhood I found it a lot simpler”
― Rumaan Alam, That Kind of Mother

“Cooking was a relief, like prayer.”
― Rumaan Alam, That Kind of Mother

“her eyes could not focus, and she was tired in a way that transcended the physical. It was not sleepiness, which meant only lack of sleep; it was part of her essence, like using her left hand, like having ears.”
― Rumaan Alam, That Kind of Mother

“Absent actual sleep, the restorative sort, that deep oblivion, Rebecca began to feel mad.”
― Rumaan Alam, That Kind of Mother