Mother and daughter Quotes

“What was the payoff? It obviously kept me in my cozy zone of being in control, being a good mother, with a good daughter. Most of all, I realize, is that it allowed me to maintain the lie that she was healed, that Nick hadn't permanently damaged her, that I'd truly saved her. Because if I did, if there was no lasting residue of him, it meant that the denial that kept me in the marriage long enough for him to hurt her didn't help create the situation she's in now. The person who I worked hardest to keep safe seems to have been me.”

“Be a hard worker. Work and happiness are like mother and daughter. Work brings forth happiness. Hard work brings great happiness. Enjoy life.”

“Work and happiness are like mother and daughter; work brings forth happiness, but hard work brings forth great happiness!”

“Every mother and daughter should make time for a trip together. It's good for the soul.”

“And then I tasted a sharp acid rising in my stomach. It is an acquired taste, the essence of fear.”

“For a long time, I was trapped in this struggle with my emotions about the single person in the world who was my family.”