The Stay-at-Home Mother Quotes

“the days are long but the years are short,”
― Nicole Trope, The Stay-at-Home Mother

“returns to the rocking chair, where some movement is physically comforting, and she leans back, dropping her head and staring up at the ceiling, riddled with cracks. How did the two of them get here? How did two people who never wanted more than each other and their own small family get here? ‘Okay,’ she says, her eyes counting the cracks so she has something else to focus on. ‘Okay.’ Her feet move the rocking chair and her hands cradle her stomach as the detective speaks into her phone, and Terry leaves the room to make tea, his phone in his hand. Andrea gets”
― Nicole Trope, The Stay-at-Home Mother