“Your mother and I know how hard you are on yourself. There’s no punishment that’s going to make you feel more miserable than you are right now.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Even our mother, who is not on the best of terms with Jesus just now, still draws the line at marching into His house toting ammunition. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

After telling the storekeeper how big my mother and sisters were, I bought several yards of cloth. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sally is cough syrup; she tastes bad, but my mother insists she’s good for me. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your mother sought from the gods magnificent trophies and set them down midfield for our champions. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite these precautions, Izzy had arrived precipitously soon thereafter, making her appearance—eleven weeks early—an hour after her mother arrived at the hospital. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was prepared to offer the sight of those bulging boots to his mother as evidence of her thoughtlessness. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For you, what else is there?” said his mother. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then one of them said, Let’s go see Mami’s bear, which is the way they refer to their mother’s fur coat hanging in this closet. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“That’s still very young to be separated from his mother. We have to keep him healthy for you. Has he eaten?” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

His father had smiled for the first time since Levi’s bar mitzvah, Danny said, and his mother had wept with joy. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

After I’d left Colonel Batt’s office the night before, my mother had called back and asked to speak to Captain Hill. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“No, I mean before I was a wife and a mother. I mean underneath, where I am Chanhassen.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Jo’s only answer was to hold her mother close, and in the silence which followed the sincerest prayer she had ever prayed left her heart without words. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said nothing of her plan at home, but fell to work next day, much to the disquiet of her mother, who always looked a little anxious when ‘genius took to burning’. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother died and then I killed Will; I shot him; I killed him. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

His mother was endlessly concerned with being proper and worried about things Joseph couldn’t understand, like parties, and guest lists, and looking presentable. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When Ophie pushed open the door to her parents’ bedroom she was startled to find her mother awake. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Gripping my obsidian pendant, I wonder if Lita will watch the fire snake through the smoky glass, when he finally reunites with his mother. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, my sister and I had joined my mother, who was still shaking. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father is dead, and my mother is in a labor camp in Salzburg.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He had not told her what made him stay home to cry for his mother. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Each year that followed, they had brought the ancient robe again to her mother for small repairs. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the jacket into the living room and laid it lightly across the arm of the couch, a big burgundy thing my mother used to call “the spaceship” when I was kid. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I now knew what it was like to lose a mother, but I don’t know how my mother would’ve felt if she lost me. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

All those years she’d told him not to think of her as his mother fell away. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he’s trailing a finger over my mother’s face. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Eyes rimmed with long, dark eyelashes my mother couldn’t believe had formed inside her. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The third brother, Agravaine, was moved because it was a matter which concerned his mother. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother says he was homesick, and hints at a nervous breakdown, but there was more to it than that. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Fanning gave her a warning look, not too different from the one Sandi's mother had given her. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Either way, her mother would have remembered to pack Aimee a snack before sending her off to school, as she was now most likely going to starve to death. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Hazel sank into her mother’s arms, into the darkness, as oil filled her lungs and the island collapsed into the bay. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She blinked and looked toward the front window of her house where her mother’s form was already seated at the desk on the other side. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

According to my mother, as a younger man Southside had made a point of pumping jazz into his seven children, often waking everyone at sunrise by playing one of his records at full blast. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Your mother is doing great and sends her love. Your father has filed a lawsuit to have the abuse charges against him dropped. He’s also filed for your custody.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“In transition? What kind of a Mexican mother are you?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

She was not entirely sure what she herself believed, but she knew that her mother would want them to do these rituals for her, and that was enough. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is shame you fall down nobody push you,” said my mother. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“By the way, was that your mother you were speaking to? Do you still live at home?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

My mother had known him since she was a little girl growing up in the same house I'm growing up in now. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Petey helped search, even going as far as to check the mutant mole hole in his mother’s flower garden. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He lived peacefully with his mother and father in a beautiful house beside the sea. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

I could picture my mother on the other end of the line trying to figure out what was going on. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He turned his palms toward the mother to show her that he meant no harm. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When my mother calls, Hope Dell Jackie—inside! the game is over. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

There was a picture of a young boy standing next to his mother. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

That day, as Mr. Birkway talked about Greek mythology, I started daydreaming about my mother, who loved books almost as much as she loved all her outdoor treasures. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Though I came home bloody, I never told my mother who attacked me, and my father never knew of it at all. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sabeen opens the car door, and we scoot out, following her mother’s flowing black gown up the steps. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

My mother, without her coterie, was often almost as silent as me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Minutes later, we see John and my mother wander past the window, deep in conversation. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Mind your manners,” my mother cautioned us as we got down. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to be with my mother. I see so many children with mothers. I want that.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It was the same words that Jesse’s mother might have used, but it didn’t come out the same way. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

As an adolescent, he was furious with his mother for beating him, for risking escape, for causing his torture. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Moss’s heart was raging in him, so he sat back down next to his mother. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

That night the woman visited my mother and informed her of what I had done, taking her from window to window and pointing out my inspirational scribblings. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I did the best I could to be a good mother to him.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I remember the night that set this all in motion, the night I saw the soldiers mark my mother's door. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

My mother as in my mother bursts in, waving a magazine. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I don’t know that my mother’s life is on the line, either, Emma reminded herself. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When my mother returned home, she found our duplex padlocked. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“You mother, she have”—he indicated lines upon his face. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Her mother was a nurse at the hospital, counting pills, drawing blood, changing bedpans, no stranger to night and double shifts. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She ranted, her mother said to her father. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The down payment was $100, which they had to borrow from my mother’s father. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Stella turned back to her mother, who was blinking slowly. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But Natalie was moving briskly toward her mother’s desk, a piece of furniture so vast and shiny that it seemed like it might have its own gravitational pull. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I can already see the gears turning in your head,” her mother said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was using Morse code, just like Leo’s mother used to do with him...and the old man was tapping the same message: I love you. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Yes, I would pose as an innocent boy; I would tell him that my aunt was taking me and my paralyzed mother to Chicago. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw that his mother had stood, that she had one hand against her face, another clenched into the checks of her apron. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“You were gone all morning and these small piles are all you brought?” the mother hollers at us when we get home. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We must leave. Now. I should warn you that my mother may return momentarily. If I see her again. I'll regress horribly. We must dash.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You did your best to warn your mother. You should be proud of yourself.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Only Grandmother Pickford ever called my mother by her Indian name, though. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He jumps up and beats his mother to the door, opening it to find a nicely groomed Lucas Cader, necktie and all, with Mena Prescott attached to his right arm. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

For the first time since she had been taken from her mother, the girl Hel smiled, with half a mouth. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I suddenly remembered my childhood fantasy that, should I ever win a lottery, I would buy a grand piano for my mother. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

All he had in his pockets was $100 and the address of his mother’s cousin in the Jackson Heights-Corona section of Queens. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

My father had no money for doctors and hospitals, but my mother was determined. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vivi is waving to him as he tries to squirm free from his mother’s grip. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She looked at my mother and said, “There’s a union meeting next Wednesday at the church on Frame Street.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Marc’s mother goes up and stands next to him. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

My mother acted as though this were a compliment. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I went to pay a call on your mother.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Vera doesn’t know how lucky she is to have had the most important years of her life with her mother. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

On the floor above he heard footsteps—his mother's—and then a long, loud scraping-groaning sound. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

My mother heaved a sigh of relief; her tense limbs relaxed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever I tried to imagine my mother at my age before, she looked exactly like herself, just shorter, more flat-chested, still wearing a suit and pearls, holding a briefcase, hair perfect, shirt starched. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Her mother’s waiting anxiously. Let me scan the cub for any wounds or bites before we release her. We need to tell headquarters we’ve found her.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me,” Dany said, as the procession turned toward the Temple of the Graces, “if my father and my mother had been free to follow their own hearts, whom would they have wed?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When he was about two years old his mother was shot and he was sent to North America to a zoo. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Your mother was a lunatic when it came to bugs, T. Ray had said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you want to talk to me about His Majesty, my mother’s favorite?” she says to me when I first make contact with her. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“There are many kinds of mothers,” said the robot. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You are responsible,” said my mother, which meant I was in trouble if anything was spilled, burned, lost, broken, or dirty. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A boy who remained at home tied to his mother’s apron strings was regarded as a sissy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was traveling from Warsaw, Poland, following a weeklong training camp, and my mother and Faizah were flying directly from the United States to meet me in Greece. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

"Then go and catch them, Harry!" hissed the mother. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

We sneak down the road to sit on the crumbling wall of the mukhtar’s mother’s house. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

As my mother and I nervously entered the small room I looked up and had the most terrifying experience of my seven-year-old life. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here, let me help you,” their mother said, extending her hand to me from above. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He herded those he could in its direction, including my mother and Prim. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But I did not do so, for I had always obeyed my mother— whose love for me was as certain as the firmness of the sacred earth beneath my moccasins. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a word to show that she thought she had seen her mother, and if Capricorn had his way that she, too, had only two days to live. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I asked breathlessly, certain that her mother would kill her for good this time. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am the flame and the spark by which my mother lived.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Shyly he gives his mother the picture he’s drawn. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Here is what happens when your mother worries: You become secretly worried. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She had a framed pastel portrait her mother had sketched of her when she was two and fell asleep on the blue rug in the living room. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Father said, “That is just what her mother and I wanted to know.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m taking care of other kids instead of you. Can you imagine what that’s like?” her mother demanded. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

My hands, my mother says, as she stands at the sink, holding a crying Roman with one hand, her other holding a bottle of milk under hot running water, are full. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

A shimmering image hovered over the void: my mother, frozen at the moment she’d dissolved in a shower of gold. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you miss her—my mother I mean?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her mother had pulled her close as a photographer approached; later, after the flashbulb went off, Olanna had called the photographer over and asked him please not to publish the photo. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Your father's wife—the mother of your siblings—came from a common family,” he went on. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Now, Brandon,” said Hugh’s wife weakly to her little son, who had run into the kitchen and was attempting to swing from his mother’s arms like an ape. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But her being, and her being our mother, had done the job so successfully that it was a little distracting to see her throwing good energy after good. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t think this was the thing that would turn her into an irresponsible mother, I wanted to say. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

With my mother I was thinking, She’s going to make this worse. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

For a long time, my mother had not understood my commitment to the struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the eighth day of December the Father above took my father and took my mother. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their mother wanted to rent it, but she always asked for too much. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I heard my mother laughing as my father told some sort of story. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Even so, his mother had smiled and shown that willingness to love the man who was responsible for dividing his father up throughout eternity. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind cut like a knife up here, and shrilled in the night like a mother mourning her slain children. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He’d taken babies away from their mothers and offered them two fake mothers instead. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

A different mother might keep track of her dollars more closely, but not mine. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

After my mother took Nikki to school and dropped Shani and me off with the babysitter, she rushed to meet my father. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Finally my mother told me to go outside with Nikki and guide the ambulance crew in. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Indeed no,” I said, “it is just that I would have liked to see Kenny under our roof. He did so much for my mother.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if her memories of her parents—her mother full of grace, bronze and dark and smelling of earth; her father cradling her chin when he dropped her off at Nin’s—were fabrications too? The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Somehow he will call his mother and ask her to hire a smuggler. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Almost literally ripped from his mother’s arms and dumped in more austere surroundings at such a tender age, this scarred him mentally for life, although no unkindness was intended. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Giuseppe,” the mother said again, in a soft, broken chord of muted anguish. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Children, your mother went into the kitchen with Dragon and she hasn’t come out.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother wiped her eyes with her palm, although there were no tears, before she brought out an airmail envelope from her handbag. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

You hear all the time about the trade-offs of being a working mother. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Papi handed one to each of us and then lifted a tiny box from the side pocket of the case and smiled at my mother. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Tracy took care of me every day after the knackery horse turned me and my real mother into something else. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to say so, but part of me agrees with my mother. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“My mother is sacred to me. I thank her for the little she did for us,” Lourdes says. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Her mother led the way to the veranda and leaned against a pillar. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But then he never even called my mother by her name, nor did she ever in my presence speak his. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was walking with her mother, a bespectacled woman in a plum-purple dress, whose long, somber face was shadowed by a straw hat adorned with enough silk violets to plant a garden. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I thought about explaining to her my mother’s ingenious method of ridding the house of roaches— cracker crumbs and marshmallow—but then I thought, This is June, forget it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dolls interested her mainly for what was inside them; her mother would catch her tearing out their stuffing so that she could see what was making them talk. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Not that I think anybody would be foolish enough to try anything with you, but I promised Nicole and her mother I wouldn’t leave you alone.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Quasimodo’s mother comes screaming through the door, What in the name of Jesus! and the kitchen light fills the yard. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Just because I wouldn’t say what your mother wanted me for. I’d promised not to tell, and of course I wasn’t going to break my word.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother put a pan of cold biscuits on the lid of the possum kettle to warm. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A moment or two later, his mother pushed her way in. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Know what he deserves? He deserves to be—” “Paine, that’s enough,” my mother said sternly. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Back in England you'd see mothers pushing infants in prams through winter gales. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Posse will go to your house and tell your mother your immortal soul is in danger. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I have my mother’s name, until I inherit.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother had always had a strange empathy for the Night Zoo’s inhabitants. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

My mother was standing behind me, ready to greet everybody. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thought It does not take a math genius to understand that when you subtract a mother from the equation what remains is negative. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The terrified mother pawned the cornet immediately and destroyed the pawn ticket. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t remember Bore, or my mother either for that matter, ever looking happy to see me, let alone when I came into the house with a friend. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

What kind of mother has no milk to feed her children? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They seem to me grown-up in a way that my own mother is not. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jeanne, her mouth hanging open in horror, watched her mother lean in and whisper into the knight’s ear. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

And you may as well throw in our mothers, too, because how would they live without us? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

If she had gotten involved as a witness after all that had happened, I knew her mother would’ve shipped her off to a Tibetan convent for ninety-six years. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Your mother has cancer, Eugenia. In the lining of the stomach.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I want to know what happened to my mother and my brother.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

That was the same as calling my own mother a liar. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I get it. Because my mother works for your mother?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

No, child, only a messenger, though your mother’s fate is not as hopeless as you believe. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“They said they been doin experiments on her and they wanted to come test my children see if they got that cancer killed their mother.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Most of the blame, his father decides, belongs to Enrique’s mother. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

That night, sitting at the foot of my bed, poking her face in so that the gauzy net was molded to her features like an awful death mask, was the black mother cat. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Bring me a big bag,” her mother said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Clive smiled sheepishly at the mother, who smiled proudly at her daughter. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

When their father died they rented out the land, but their mother would not budge from the old place. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“No children,” said Nicodemus, and her mother led her away, still weeping. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

And one day, when my mother’s in a good mood, maybe after my next birthday, I’m going to ask to buy the nylons too. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the strongest memory that Sergio could attribute to either reality or desire was the smell of his mother, close to him, warming him, holding him, all the dark night. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Soon her mother would appear and want to discuss the table placings, Paul Marshall would come down from his room and be in need of company, and then Robbie would be at the door. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“At least I don’t know. There was a fire—my mother went to the hospital. I never saw her again.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I sat on the ground, expecting to sink down into my dark mood and think about my mother, but the only thoughts I had were for Rosaleen. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Of course I knew she could read," the mother said. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

When my mother finished milking that one, she would call, “Ntei Mongo!” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess I’m just not too good at doing things that mothers do.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Shut you up and get to bed,” my mother said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is even reason to think that her mother may have carried an illness that will endanger others — — and the women need the space where their cott was. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You saw the oven when my mother visited me!” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He’d been walking toward Cootie’s car, carrying his best suit to put in the trunk so it wouldn’t get wrinkled on the way to Cootie’s mother’s funeral. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Alexander’s father wraps him in a thankful hug, and Alexander’s mother joins in. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Beatrice had asked how he planned to explain his whereabouts to his mother and father, and Roy had admitted he hadn’t figured that part out yet. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using her small inheritance, my mother enrolled in cosmetology school. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She looked away from her mother, and straightened, catching her breath, looking outward through the small, cracked window. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

My mother and sister are home for 18:00—Reflection, a half hour of downtime before dinner. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Following their tabloid coverage is something of an idle hobby of hers, one that in turns amuses and annoys their mother, and Alex is narcissistic enough to let June read him the highlights. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My mother was—and still is—a deeply religious woman. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“If I give in for one thing, then the next thing you know, I’ll be giving in for everything,” his mother replied. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She came home to a whipping from her mother and a new horse from her beaming father. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some herbalist on my mother’s side of the family started it ages ago. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re at least as relevant as your propaganda lecture,” Ishmael’s mother replied. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Jeanne’s mother led them around the house and to the main road. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

After a few seconds of silence, Alma’s mother finally stepped aside and invited me in. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Gogol is eating frozen waffles for breakfast, wishing his parents would turn off the music so that he could hear the cartoons he is watching, when his mother’s water breaks. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He got to his feet and pushed his mother back into death and closed his mind against her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother twisted the three strands into a braid. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe my mother felt then the way I feel right now. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

And for the briefest, smallest moment in time, I feel like I don’t have a mother at all. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said Milo, remembering that his mother had always told him to eat lightly when he was a guest, “why don’t we have a light meal?” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mother swatted him, then caught one of his hands in her own and unfolded it for Ben to see. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Something, however, made the mother uneasy, so that one night she kept watch and screamed in terror when she saw the child laid in the fire. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little rabbit cowered in the grass while his mother was killed before his eyes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she knew her mother had visions of the boy growing up. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

A billfold with a twenty-dollar bill—“In case you get stranded at the airport in some small town and have to buy food,” his mother had said—and some odd pieces of paper. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother liked to look at the ducks and plan how she would dig a pond for them near the sweet potato field and arrange straw for their eggs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother reiterated that she wanted to wait until the end of the summer to get one, but her father wasn’t having it. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

For years, Nicole had submitted to the relaxers and her mother’s big tub of Icon Pass Hair Grease. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

We both understood what that meant—that she had realised to the full her mother’s death; so we tried what we could to comfort her. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Roy wondered if Dana’s mother had popped him in the kisser. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reminded me that my mother abandoned me. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her mother rose from the table and walked over to Siobhan. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Emma felt a little like her own mother had tattled on her. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The group of men stared at my mother, then at me—my teeth were chattering. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The late-aftemoon downpour sends the students’ mothers scurrying under the coral tree in the yard of the Nikolai Lenin Elementary School. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

That perhaps the ways of his mother and his father had occupied whole regions of his heart. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky sparkled with a million stars and the Virgin’s homed moon, the moon of my mother’s people, the moon of the Lunas. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said that a daughter should not be in competition with her mother, but I think he would have missed her during the times she would be at rehearsals. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I left school that day, I didn’t go home because I just couldn’t talk to her on the phone, and my mother is not a very “adroit” liar about things like that. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

So I explained to him how Mrs. Cadaver had told me all this on the day Phoebe’s mother returned. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Real life is scarier than any movie I've ever seen and all the movies my mother never let me see. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My mother began memorizing her books immediately after supper. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone, even my mother, stared at her for her bad manners, criticizing a servant that way. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some minutes later, Bono came in with the footmen, and bound my mother and me, and took us outside, and we were lashed to the horse-post. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

One time, my mother told me that I always eat like I'll never see food again. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I think it’s nice to celebrate their achievement,” my mother said. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“Your mother didn’t like to talk about it,” he said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She added proudly, “My mother backs having a union.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was no food in the house; Shinae had eaten or taken it all, along with the money their mother had left her. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I wondered if our mother noticed that, too. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She did all the stuff a housekeeper usually did, because Jennifer had a working mother, just like me. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Every mother in town was dying to know my secret formula for diaper rash. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearby were the plots for Mollie’s murdered sisters and her murdered brother-in-law, Bill Smith, and her murdered mother, Lizzie, and her murdered first husband, Henry Roan. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The other mother carried Coraline into the kitchen and put her down very gently upon the countertop. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Francie was glad because she hated black and had worried lest her mother put her in deep mourning. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her index finger lovingly traced my father’s face and then her mother’s. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Uncle made me a beautiful wooden box in which I placed her chewed-up pencil, a lock of her hair my mother had cut, her toenail clippings, and other really sacred items like that. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A voice whispered: “Did you say no to your mother?” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ledge of the stove is lined with a few spice jars, labeled in his mother’s hand. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their mother pushed them into their room and tucked them back under the blankets. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Johnson, the boy's mother, is a loud, big woman; Ranee saw her once by chance in a grocery store before they moved out of Ridgeford. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But here even Victoria was surprised, for her father agreed with her mother, saying that working in the bar at the Seventh Magpie was something that a well-brought-up young lady would not do. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“His mother is Japanese and his father is black,” I explained. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

When Kingshaw's mother had gone, he said, 'I know about a boy called Fielding.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Of all the institutions in their lives, only the Catholic Church has seemed aware of the fact that my mother and father are thinkers—persons aware of the experience of their lives. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother, seeing my distress, said, “You were a good baby, Louise. You never gave us a minute’s worry.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made my mother sad, and it slowly killed my father’s dream. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This one should have been pawing at its mother for milk. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He will call and ask his old employer to find Aunt Rosa Amalia or Uncle Carlos Orlando Turcios Ramos, who had arranged his job, and ask them for his mother’s number. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

To her mother’s inquiries she answered that she was quite well, and Jo’s she silenced by begging to be let alone. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Yee, Andrew’s mother, asks me as we accept our hot dogs. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She was in many ways a stand-in mother, and like brothers, the boys each wanted to be her favorite. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Their mother prayed for a long time that night. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter for my mother and little sister, Prim, anymore. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Ira was nearing six, my mother was afflicted with consumption, and was soon so feeble that she could not rise from her bed. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had no guarantees, nothing to give to keep my mother alive. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Surely, I thought, my mother has told him, for he knows; but as if he guessed my thoughts he shook his head. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered her mother—not her before-mother, but the one she had always known. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Later, when the children and their mother had gone to live in San Francisco, Bobo’s love for the little boy weakened until it went quite away. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally the doctor came out in his white coat and shook hands with me, then took my mother inside. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your mother cannot pay the moneylender back out of what she earns at Señor Aguilar’s hotel and feed and keep you all, too. You and your brother Salvador must help her.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“My mother is the same. She can chill a beverage just by bringing it to you.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But who’s to say that his mother, before she was nabbed by Thirsty, hadn’t caught a human being? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember that game, ‘Step on a crack, break your mother’s back’?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“My mother and I have been embroidering linens for my trousseau for ages ... what have you been working on?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

No. He would not pretend that it was love for his mother. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother came back, and I told her what had happened. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jody glanced in shame at his mother, and he saw that she was looking at Carl, and that she wasn’t breathing. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaisha’s mother had baked brownies and cookies all night, and their little fund-raiser lasted ten minutes before they were ordered to move. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And my mother wept, and my father’s heart went soft, and he could no more drown me than himself—and they named me Nelly, for Queen Eleanor. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know if my mother and father enjoy it. I mean, I can’t remember seeing them kiss.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

My mother didn’t see her family again for twelve years. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I am the mother who will be here for the rest of my life.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“He’s engaged to a very rich girl,” said Billy’s mother. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

For as long as Xan could remember, every year at about the same time, a mother from the Protectorate left her baby in the forest, presumably to die. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

My mother starts down the aisle, and I follow her. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, my dear child,” Gitl said, pulling her close, “thank God that your father and mother are not alive to see you now.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mother is going to ruin her life.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to miss you,” said Brightbill as he nuzzled his mother. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I think my mother could be beautiful, in a different world. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The woman was older, with gray hair; my mother’s generation. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother went out of the room and left me to it. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then her mother shouted, “That’s not funny, Flora Belle. Get down here right now!” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

It smelled like hot urine, but at least the cats and my mother were pleased. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Later on that evening my mother came back with a loaf of brown bread and the bad news that she was unable to find a job. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down in the sea caves his mother knew his sorrow and came up to try to comfort him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

"This is a book I'm bringing home to my mother." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Kunthi’s child was born a few months before mine, a fine boy who nearly took his mother’s life in exchange for his own. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew it didn’t make sense that she, a Shona child, had a Matabele mother. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beto slipped past the stout legs of the mothers on their bench and climbed over their squirming babies to get to the aisle. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I hear my mother’s breathing, and the ticking of the clock. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the night, Alba heard her rummaging in the kitchen and concluded that her mother’s hunger must have overcome her headache. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lord Asriel was out a hunting, but they got word to him and he came riding back in time to find your mother’s husband at the foot of the great staircase. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Mei Ching could not have known, of course, that your mother and I, her new husband, had already returned to that same place in 1945 in hopes of finding both her family and her daughters. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no point in arguing, no point to reminding her of my mother’s disastrous marriage. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The boys and their mother followed the smell of food down the shaky wooden steps to the kitchen doorway. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

His mother acted stiff and funny just the way she did when she had to go up to school about something. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

But when she asked what kind of cancer her mother had, what treatments the doctors gave her, and what part of her was still alive, the family had no answers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

For the whole time Jessie cried, her mother wrapped her in a hug. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

With his dark glasses on, I can’t see his eyes, only the reflection of a terrified girl clinging to her mother. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Since the whipping, I only see him when he comes to the house for my mother to check how he’s healing. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

What if I get hit on by women who are old enough to be my mother? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

As handy as he is for some things, he couldn’t get the hang of the pastry business, at least not the way my mother runs it. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother says with irritation, “You still want to go.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Jew in me was dying anyway, but it truly died when my mother died. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brothers and my mother, Hamameh and her children all joined in the stair madness. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The mother and baby remained in the hospital for several days, and by the time they were released Mother had stopped trembling. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You’ll be the prettiest fairy there,” her mother had told her, and Ash grinned as her mother tucked a cloak of white rabbit fur around her chin. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if his mother thinks he’s dangerous. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was about to give my home address, where I would probably be by the time the bill arrived, but then I thought of my mother opening the bill and seeing what it was for. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Can you imagine? Your mother and Mary Miller are waiting on you, but Miles forgot to pick you up. He’s on his way now.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

My father came over and stood by my mother and motioned for Junior and me to come closer. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Our mother slapped the credit card slip on the table in front of him. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Armpit’s mother worked as a checker for H-E-B, a local supermarket chain. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Try to communicate with my mother to find out about my family.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Still, the horrifying stories about mothers trying to console their babies born with microcephaly and other tragic birth defects were heartbreaking. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Fadi looked at her blankly for a few seconds; his brain was slow in getting used to English again, even though his mother had drilled them every day during their homeschooling. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He started talking loudly to my mother in Cantonese, and my mother, who spoke Cantonese so poorly it sounded just like her Mandarin, was talking loudly back, pointing to the crab and its missing leg. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Castle!" my mother called from the living room. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

After all...after all, what would have happened to me, to my mother’s family, if I hadn’t saved him? Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

My mother tells me all the time, Never, never leave that playground except to come home. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was heartening to see them there; my mother had journeyed all the way from the Transkei. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother listened until the engine faded away. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Only because there is no way to leave the house without his mother watching to see whether or not he stops at Caroline’s room, Bailey knocks at the half-closed door. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

"Send his armor home to the Vale. The mother will want to have it." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Antonio,” my mother called, “hurry and feed the animals! Make sure they have enough water! You know your father will forget them while we are away!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Viserys had been a boy of eight when they fled King's Landing to escape the advancing armies of the Usurper, but Daenerys had been only a quickening in their mother's womb. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her mother's voice was so sad that the youngest, Fifi, began to cry. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She had defended me, protected me, just as my African mother would have done. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger’s shame for his mother amounted to hate. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

George’s mother and father are stay-at-home parents, and George and his two brothers stay at home with them each and every day. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“You going to take the job, ain’t you, Bigger?” his mother asked. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not backing out of the soup job if they give it to me,” said my mother. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Why didn’t you call your mother when you got home? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could these two be mother and daughter? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

"Pets are a different matter, to be sure. But the little creature must be old enough to survive without its mother," he concluded, rising. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

"Well, I must say," Grandma Knife cuts in, "I'm pretty impressed you managed to get your mother out so fast." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The game was brief because your mother quickly called you away, but for those fleeting moments, Lore, we were joined in common purpose. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He identifies them for me with a pointed finger: Lakshmi; Shakti, the mother goddess, in the form of Parvati; and Krishna, this time as a playful baby crawling on all fours. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Danny’s mother, who had some kind of heart condition and needed to rest frequently, was forever adding food to my plate. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I had not really thought about my mother in a long time. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother throws her head back, her newly pressed and curled hair gleaming her smile the same one she had before she left for Columbus. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

He knelt beside his mother and buried his face in her swollen hand, but the stench threw him back. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother can do amazingly complicated math in her head. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

My mother sets the tray on the desk. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

His mother lowers her glasses to the tip of her nose, eyeing him over a pile of papers. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She had begun running in her mother's womb, and never once stopped. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

On the screen, Deborah sat on a couch with her mother’s Bible open in her lap, her hair brown instead of gray, her eyes bright, with no circles beneath them. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The children thought that this must be a game, as Leopard was their mother’s friend, and they continued to laugh and smile even as they were dragged along. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

She and her mother had moved into their half of the duplex when Armpit was still at Camp Green Lake. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, the truth is it was your mother’s fault,” Grandpa says to me. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, suffrage was a young person’s fight, not a battle once fought by her mother and her mother’s friends. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

After four or five more minutes, my mother, my aunt, and my cousin and me came up on the park. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

In her haze her mother was alive and laughing, dancing in front of her cooking fire. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my mother gasped, and then she was running. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When they finished dinner, Alex wet the corner of his napkin in his glass and wiped Nunu’s face, just like his mother always did. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“That’s a painting by Mr. Norman Rockwell,” Stella’s mother told the girls. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And she was happy, too—she laughed and kissed his forehead like his mother used to do when she tucked him in at night. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

His mother locked her fingers in his as they curved around toward the entrance to the Alameda Tube, and Moss gave her a look of appreciation. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He lost his mother when he was young. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

And especially, strangely, this: he shouldn’t have taken that watch from his mother when he boarded the boat in Shanghai. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead she heard her mother, Euphrosyne Stephanides, speaking in this very cocoonery years ago, elucidating the mysteries of silkworms—“To have good silk, you have to be pure,” she used to tell her daughter. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My pretend mother said, “Good,” and emptied the rest of the envelope over my oatmeal. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

A mother will clutch her children and jump from a moving car to keep them from harm. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My son stared, very impressed by the general he had seen in the parade, but his father said, “It’s your mother. Go to your mother.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother’s rocker did not even move enough to squeak. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, Yuni, there’s nothing you could have done,” Doha’s mother said as she entered his room holding a bowl of rice gruel. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It is just passing the buck, as children do, to mothers. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish you’d ask me when you want to do a thing like that,” her mother said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Or girls passed by together, or a mother with a child across her shoulder. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Remember, whatever you do or whatever happens I am still your mother and there is nothing I would refuse you if you wanted or needed it, and nothing would change it. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ice’s mom used to be like my second mother. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I undress and lower myself into the silky water—my mother has poured in some kind of oil as well—and try to get a grip on things. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mother and Mama Ya-Ya are sitting in bed like sleepover friends. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

And that last telephone call, that whispered communication just before his mother had left. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But maybe we shouldn’t tell the police about it being Brady’s idea,” my mother said, opening her hands. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I remember when my pregnant mother awoke from a nap and found my aunt and Dusty sitting close together watching television. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The sisters are double stones of a single fruit, darker than their mother, with rounder features and their father’s inky eyes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mother is sick but he wouldn’t let me see her. He would not even take the food. He closed the door in my face.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It blinked at my mother with human eyes, moving its head from shoulder to shoulder as if figuring things out. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

So your father shoves his excitement into your mother and there’s a spurt and these little germs go up into your mother where there’s an egg and that grows into you. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Or the snooty “Don’t you even know your own mother’s name?” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin was the same color as my brown silk hat my mother had made me for my birthday. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He watched as the mother comforted the child by rhythmically bouncing up and down and crooning to him. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

One day, after a few episodes of this bleeding that comes for four or five days, then disappears for a month, the Doctorita’s mother, Anita, comes to visit. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought it was going just fine until a peculiar look crossed the mother’s face. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

To keep us out of mischief, my mother often took my brother and me with her to her cooking job. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Sending half his paycheck to his mother. What does that leave for us?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He ushered his mother into her seat at dinner, turned in at seven, and tucked his alarm clock under his pillow so as not to wake Louie, with whom he shared a bed. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Now, you good sweet mothers, symbols of Mother Mary at the tomb, kneel and pray for your sons, your only sons,” the preacher chanted. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once my mother’s car was out of sight, Thalia said, “Your mom is so cool, Percy.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

As he drove out, he kept turning back to see his mother, perhaps to see if she would change her mind and dash after Aniekwena or wave to him to stop. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They are nearly all women’s names, usually the name of the waterman’s mother or grandmother, depending on how long the boat has been in the family. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt my father’s strong arms carrying me out, and my last glimpse was that of my mother and Ultima kneeling obediently at the foot of the Virgin, praying their thanks. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon when his mother said they needed to have a little talk. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s just providential, as my mother used to say,” Mrs. Richardson had told her husband on hearing the news. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The mother’s eyes were skipping about the room, looking everywhere but at Taisin or her son. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Maria's mother never left Bayamon, Puerto Rico, and my mother never left Greenville. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

And the girl grabbed her mother’s hand and pulled her through the wall. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time, I believed we were going to make it to Lewiston by the next day, the twentieth of August, my mothers birthday. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“He and his mother have had a rough time. Lolly is the good sort of coconut.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It was the information about Miles—about his mother—that had kept me from falling asleep. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

My mother’s eyes fluttered and she stumbled back. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother depended on her to produce more milk than any other cow. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have to stay in the playground because the twins are sleeping and my mother says she’s worn out. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“A friend,” my mother said, and continued to stare at Lily. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Gramps never spoke about my mother, but he didn't have to. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It hissed, and swiped its scalpel-sharp claws at the other mother’s face in one wild rake which left black ooze trickling from several gashes on the other mother’s nose. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Essie’s mother was in service as a cook at the squire’s house, and, at the age of twelve, Essie began to work there, in the scullery. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Every plant inherited one copy from each parent—one allele from father, via sperm, and one from mother, via the egg. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

All this served to make Moss even more nervous, and he almost wished that Javier’s mother was home soon. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I had a mother and father who I would match against any other. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Morrie waited on those kisses like a puppy waits on milk, and he felt, deep down, that he had a mother again. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

June had somehow convinced her mother to let Ivy and Taryn spend the night. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Soraya told me that her mother had wanted to sing at our wedding, only one song, but the general gave her one of his looks and the matter was buried. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

By Molly’s next birthday she was living with a new family, and her mother was in jail. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He pulls up a chair by the side of the bed and Patty helps to transfer the child from mother’s to father’s arms. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had always been my father's favorite, and it seemed fitting I should take on a mourning my mother had never bothered with. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Her mother had protected it with all her heart. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Thus she was able to get a little thirdhand information about her father and mother, Ben and Old Rit, or about one of her brothers or sisters. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mother gave Obinze a long look, even more wistful than before. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

"Well, my favorite patient besides your mother," Momly clarified about Mr. Warren. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

But Frau Elena watches the boys with wary eyes: not so long ago they were feral toddlers skulking in their cots and crying for their mothers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Dusty plays golf every Sunday with the newspaper’s publisher,” my mother said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

"They tell me you are called Weasel. That will not serve. What name did your mother give you?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Except that she lived in a big mansion with a thousand servants, she lived just like my mother. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother didn't know any of these names. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His mother had died when he was three years old—the King of the Osage Hills, too, burdened by a past. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Oh, many times. Before the boys were born. After too. Your mother, she used to be adventurous then, and ... so alive. She was just about the liveliest, happiest person I’d ever met.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

My mothers knows, underneath all the fancy details that cost so much, this house is still a barn. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Harry had been brought up by his dead mother’s sister and her husband. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Turning to me, he said, “Johannes, count this money for your mother.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat up, asking, “Where are we? Where is my mother?” The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

On such a night back in her other life, in the windowless cott with her mother, she might have risen to enjoy the moonlight. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother says books books books, he’s ruining his eyes with the reading, he needs an operation to straighten them but who’ll pay for it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He had not even cried when his mother died. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

But our mother looks out the window and sees us, and the snow, and makes us come inside and dry our feet off with the skimpy towels. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Coming here? Your mother never told me,” says Dad. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I am writing the lyrics down, trying to catch each word before it's gone then reading them back, out loud to my mother. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Quick heels coming down the stairs, and his mother, large, soft, and gentle-looking, quivered at the entrance. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

And your mother gave it to you, too. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He lived with his father, who held the whole house on his back, and his mother, whose eyes registered nothing when they looked at him. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

That's one thing my mother was sure that me and Jazz understood. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

As soon as the woman left, my mother burst into tears. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve forgotten my mother was once as pretty and as earnest as that. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jethro loved Bill far and away beyond his other brothers; his mother understood why. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was worth the trip,” said Billy’s mother raptly. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And her mother nodded and turned back to the phone. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

When Hal’s mother sits with him, she speaks in brief, practiced sound bites. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

"Fine," his mother said, not even pretending that she was okay with it. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I liked pretending that I didn’t have a mother, and that my father simply caught me when the stork dropped me from his crisp white sling. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He would tell them that he had really wanted to go, but his mother wouldn’t let him. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Since I wasn’t allowed out alone now, days often became boring and I was glad that we’d be starting lessons and I thought my mother must be glad too. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is the mother’s not the lover’s lust that rots the mind. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But shutters swung out inside her and she saw the boy trembling on his sickbed, his mother weeping over his grave. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He glanced at my mother, who nodded, giving him the okay to explain. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

He said maybe that was our mother and she would love us as long as that light was there. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What will your poor mother think if you stay here all night?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

In any case, that was the last time my then five-year-old brother ever saw our mother. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

My mother used to get them too, and I remember she told me once she’d rather give birth than pass a kidney stone. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His mother looked and he watched her face light up with humor. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“It was quite a scandal when they married. She had no money and no connections, but at least she abided by the law. Not like your birth mother.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The men left, and I called for my mother. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When he came out of his room, he heard his mother talking to his father on the phone. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother, though her fingers had not had the almost-magical knowledge that Kira’s had, would have been more experienced, more deft, and faster. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children scream at the top of their lungs, clambering around the mother. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had truly expected my mother to come soon. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all I can think is that, for the first time in a long, long time, I am being hugged by my mother and my father at the same time. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

She called up Jane's mother and made a big stink about it. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He could not remember what had happened, but he knew in his dream that in some way the lives of his mother and his sister had been sacrificed to his own. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help thinking about my mother and father—that maybe as simple as Mr. Pignati was, he knew something about love and having fun that other people didn’t. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Owner stuck a tentative finger into the food processor, where his first batch of his mothers peanut butter sat, waiting. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

But her mother let her go, as long as she did all her household chores first. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

As her mother pulls their cart away, Hali leans closer to me. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

From the opposite direction, from the area where Kira and her mother had lived, came others whom she recognized from her old neighborhood. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, my mother returned to her art gallery in Leimert Park Village. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Instead of the strong and vibrant young woman she should be, the mother Gabe deserved, she was now an ancient hag waiting for death. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Since my father died and I stopped trusting my mother, no one else's arms have made me feel this safe. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

For this that his mother gave up meat on Wednesdays. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her grief and loneliness, the burden of being both mother and father, she relegated to the privacy of their house on Mimosa Crescent. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The pure light stroked her face with the tenderness of a mother, and she felt a wave of anguish. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was early one morning when we were seated at breakfast that my mother heard a car and looked out the frosty window. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dorian glanced at his mother, seated on a throne beside his own. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We ate breakfast together, my mother serving us. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother held out a paper bleeding in red ink. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then his mother came out on the back porch and struck the triangle, and all thoughts fell in a heap. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s really that I can’t leave Otto, Mom. I know the surrogate mothers are great, but he’s bonded to me and it would kill him if I abandoned him.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The way my mother's face would light up at the sound of his boots at the door. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Her mother gave us bandages for our blisters and served us warm cider and caramel popcorn. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She learns everything I teach her as if she already knows it, said the mother, but this knowledge does not really enter her soul The mother seemed puzzled and afraid. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Henry, tell your mother she’s not putting me in a nursing home.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“We leaving you now with God, Bigger,” his mother said. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

That is why my mother dreamed of me becoming a priest, because there had not been a Luna priest in the family for many years. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pong caught a flash of emotion when Nok mentioned her mother, but it was too fast for him to tell what it was. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

From there, an illusion of Aru’s mother stepped out into the Hall of the Gods. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Impressed by the experience of someone so young, Lovelace sent her an invitation, but her mother had to give Wally permission due to her age. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s gonna be all right,” her mother whispered as she smoothed down Stella’s hair. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Your teacher is Miss Brown. Take this note upstairs to her. Your mother can go,” he said and disappeared into his office. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Back in 2016, when his mother squeezed out a victory in the general election, the bitterest sting was losing Texas. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Small, but I guess strong enough to help us out around the house,” the mother says to the father. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reminded me a little bit of old Ernest Morrow's mother, the one I met on the train. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She wrote in her diary, “I feel a great calm sadness, like that of a mother binding out a dear child that she could not support.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Her sound in the kitchen gave me the courage I needed to leap out of bed and into the freshly pressed clothes my mother had readied for me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was something shocking coming from my mother. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I look at my mother and let the dolly fall to the ground. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Lily smirked at me, but I could tell she was proud of our mother for subtly brushing off Mrs. Mansfield's attempt to one-up her. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Her mother’s last gift to her had been a second chance at life, and that gift couldn’t be wasted. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They are going to Dresden, to my mother’s pearls, damp with the sweat of her neck. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, what kind of loser would have a car like that? Probably the only thing your mother can afford.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The mother was in control of her voice again. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Finally I fastened the silver earrings in my ears and wrapped the new chili-pepper-red sari as my mother instructed. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you ever drink,” my mother said to me. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe I’m finally having a sex talk with my mother. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The priest stopped right in the middle of the prayer and extended his right arm in the direction of my mother, who then started speaking in tongues. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wore many names when I was quick, but even I once had a mother, and die name she gave me at her breast was Brynden.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In a corner of my mind I had realized that my mother was unreliable, hut Adele was a loving grandmother who had always done what she said. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Same to you. And your folks. Tell Mr. Dead and your mother I said Merry Christmas.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was the only one like this in the store. I made my mother buy it.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I hear our mother stride out of the room. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My father crossed the room, and I saw him stoop and drop a kiss on my mother’s forehead. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

His mother’s eyes narrowed and she drew near him. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Molly and Kimberly slept over last night. Your mother called my house this morning and told us what happened.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The coroner exposes first my father and then my mother. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu hurried out of the room, past the gate, and towards the bus station, knowing that in minutes the story would reach her mother inside the main church building. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Luna stepped out of her mother’s protective embrace, grabbing Adara’s hand instead. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I think it’s probably the most important job in our community,” his mother commented. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

My mothers question will go unanswered to her face. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother, her health failing rapidly, spoke constantly now of Granny’s home, of how ardently she wanted to see us grow up before she died. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother got out and called for help bringing in the groceries. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

In the close quarters of an American nuclear family, their mother's prodigious energy was becoming a real drain on their self-determination. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

My mother was a Jew, which technically makes me a Jew. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

There's nothing to be said or done for the mother anyway. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He assures his mother he’s doing well, and he has Dr. Gachet to look after him. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Aurelia’s mother and father came to visit her several days after Boots’s first appearance. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

My beautiful mother—I would never see her smile again, feel her arms around me. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

They pondered a while over their mother’s inscrutable ways. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Leanne explained that my mother had a steady job and a new boyfriend. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

"Will you stay for dinner, Olivier?" my mother asks. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The first one is the bereaved, the mother; she carries a small black jar. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liyana’s mother spoke to a waiter in Arabic even before they sat down, ordering water without ice for herself and hot tea for everyone else. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I spotted where Mama Brunelle had died, the mussed dirt and clawed tracks grown over with weeds, but didn’t point it out to my mother. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

My mother fills a syringe with the clear liquid from one of the vials and shoots it into his arm. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I can use my mother's car. She's meeting with my father this morning, so she won’t be needing it for a while.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Terrible as his noises were, they were not nearly as bad as the no noise at all from her mother. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as I look out the window, all I can think is how wrong my mother is about this. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

But the news about his mother was very different. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I knew not his word, and hesitated; he, perceiving my fault, explained its meaning and derivation while my mother begged for water. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

My mother sat in her rocking chair, humming to herself. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of this, Mai's mother, who was named Dung, had been an outcast. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

That the death of Father Quinel had to do with my mother and me, I didn’t doubt. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I knew my mother had been pregnant, her belly protruding more by the day, but I was so young, I couldn’t put it all together. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

His mother lets out a sound I’ve never heard before, low and guttural and terrible. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

These things—even the thing in the cellar—were illusions, things made by the other mother in a ghastly parody of the real people and real things on the other end of the corridor. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

What if she is pregnant and Enrique dies trying to make it to his mother? Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I remember explaining, ‘Ben Franklin wore bifocals—Ty Cobb was batting champion of the American League when these guys were around—my mother was alive when these guys were alive and she wore bifocals.’ The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He talked with my mother a long time and all I could hear was my mother’s voice: “I don’t know what you’re talking about. Search the house if you like.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How long will that take?” my mother asks. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Folks always tell me I look just like my mother. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Like her mother, she was afraid of being openly sentimental. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when he was little, if his mother wanted to buy him something in a store, he would sometimes ask her not to because he feared the family couldn’t afford it. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her usual sparkle was toned way down, and she said “Yes’m” and “No’m” to his mother just as though she were aware of Mrs. Aaron’s dread of disrespect. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

But they are just people like us, mothers and children, fleeing from conflict. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She and her mother hooked the wagon onto the back of the battered moped, loaded the wagon with the honey and cookies. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

There is a mother with her teenage daughter sitting on the left side of the room. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

My father sits in the easy chair marking drawings of spruce budworms cut open to show their digestive systems, my mother has made grilled cheese squares with bacon on them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

After my mother leaves, my grandmother pulls us further into the religion she has always known. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

His mother and father struggled bravely as they were dragged off. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“A lot of inventions ... dangerous ones. If my mother wants me to use this plan, she must think things are very bad.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

They are well aware of their mother’s voice and will turn their heads towards it when she speaks. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Francie took the plate holding two buttered crackers in to her mother. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But take your time, Ranee. The girls have clothes from London. And maybe they can wear the salwar kameez outfits my mother sent." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And then there was the matter of Dorian’s sapphire eyes—not even his mother had his eyes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She smells of lavender water, and it reminds me of my mother so much that I nearly hug her. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Everyone with the exception of the driver, my mother and me was out of the car and standing on the road.The noise of gear-wheels grinding against each other was terrible. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With my mother and Bianca. A weekend trip from Venice. I was maybe...six?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She knelt down beside her mother’s grave, which was whole and untouched, and wiped away the dirt and moss that had overgrown the headstone. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My own mother had said that losing your innocence and becoming a man was learning to sin. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When poor single mothers had the option of remaining out of the labor force on welfare, the middle and upper middle class tended to view them with a certain impatience, if not disgust. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother took a great lungful of air, let it out, as if she were settling into a particularly challenging yoga pose. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Of course not. Nearly everybody wears them in Hollywood. My mother wears them all the time. It’s just that these are new ones, and they must be a different kind.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tidbit still cried for his mother, burying himself in Amari’s arms. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I announced proudly while Mom sobbed and the other mothers comforted her. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The twins complain that they’ve had nothing but ice cream to eat for days, that their mother dances with Ivanito and warns them of the dangers of daylight. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gold’s mother leaped up and started stuffing her son’s clothes into a card- board suitcase. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made his mother a sandwich, peeling the last thin pieces of turkey out of the package and pressing them between twin slices of white bread. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I’d walked in his footsteps my whole life, and now without warning my body had fallen in line behind my mother. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mother frowned at all this crazy psychology talk. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even let my mother get this close to me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She looks at his childhood photo albums with his mother. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Look at us, a big group of word nerds,” her mother said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He’d recently found a dead bird in the yard, bringing it into the house to show his mother. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“The surprises,” my mother says, “are for the audience.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Jackson Miller. And my mother’s name was Daisy.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He's never watched our mother barter over fish and spices in Indian grocery stores. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was not easy to break with your mother. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Keep hoping for the best, that will help you, Jo. Soon your mother will be here, and then everything will be all right.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me, my friends, I must go. My mother is expecting me for dinner.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He was almost exactly ten years older than Dill’s mother, but he looked twenty years older. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I watched my mother march in her bed. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I do not know how to be a mother.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Whenever he was ill with the fever, or once when he fell from a tree, his mother would rub his body with okwuma, all the while muttering, “We shall defeat them, they will not win.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His mother would not put on a bathing suit or swim. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ethyne transformed the room into a place of healing for both mother and daughter. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I asked the mother if she had ever thought the daughter was living out her name. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Imagine the letters from our own mother— Coming to get you soon— are ones we're writing to them. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

If Cecilia went in now she would have to mediate between her mother’s vague instructions and Betty’s forceful state of mind. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m Gladys Swanson, and I’m the mother of four children here in Minneapolis,” the lady began. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Grandma was standing the same way their mother did whenever they were in trouble. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Before long, Frightful thought of him as her mother. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Once there is a cure for cancer, it’s definitely largely because of your mother’s cells.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes. That’s what my mother said, anyhow, but who can really predict these things? It’s a shame, though. I thought for sure it would be a boy this time.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“He was a muramwiwa, a child whose mother had thrown him away. His ancestral spirits might have brought us trouble.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

But those better things, just like the faint recollections he had of his mother, never lingered in his mind. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I didn’t share my mother’s excitement, but I knew I didn’t really have a choice. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I walk into the room I share with my mother. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My mother tried to teach me, but she sucked at it, too. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She walked down the hallway, then turned into the drawing room, steady step by steady step, pretending that she could not feel the other mother’s blank black eyes on her back. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

When his mother had said more or less the same thing, the first time his parents had visited the apartment, he’d argued with her, hotly defending the merits of his spartan, solitary existence. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then one day I heard my mother and her friend Lindo Jong both talking in a loud bragging tone of voice so others could hear. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reached under the mattress and pulled out my mother’s picture, the gloves, and the wooden picture of black Mary, and tucked them down in the bag, too. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And like her mother she dug up her yams. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was soothing, meditative for both mother and daughter. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Tapestries still hung on the walls of the living room and my mother’s books still crowded the shelves in Baba’s study. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She even looked like Jon, with the long face and brown hair of the Starks, and nothing of their lady mother in her face or her coloring. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

One was wearing a soccer uniform, shirt neatly tucked in, socks pulled up to her knees, like a peewee soccer player who had been carefully dressed by her mother. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“I hope he did not get his mother’s fighting genes o,” Ifemelu teased. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Have you seen? Autumn is my favorite. I like the smell of it, when people burn leaves in their gardens. My mother, she liked springtime the best. You knew my mother?” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Never had he thought of his mother as a person, a separate individual, with a life apart from allowing or interfering with his own. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It has to be your mother. You’ll understand when you learn the truth. She always planned on telling you about her, Edie. She didn’t want to keep it a secret forever.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I had reached a point where I was ashamed of her and didn’t want the world to see my white mother. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” her mother said, and then sighing heavily over the phone line, she added, “Obinze came to see me.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

All of the people who had told him and his mother that Morris deserved what he got. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was a big change from my mother who always lets out a screech if you go near anything, so I couldn’t help liking this old guy even if he was sort of weird. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I saw my mother pass through the gates without incident; when my turn came, a guard yanked me out of line. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Shelly was Dusty’s second or third wife, after Jasper Jr.’s mother,” he said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I expect I will see my mother again in some friendly way, yet I do not have the same desire to be with her. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Late afternoon: In the midst of preparing dinner, my mother would come up behind me while I was trying to read. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He never recovered from his injuries, and shortly after Christmas that year he died of heart failure at the age of thirty-four, leaving Marian’s mother to raise their three girls. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

My mother shook her head in disappointment whenever she heard about “that nonsense,” as she called it. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

My mother offered the dealer half the price he named. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her name was Guadalupe and she was pretty like my mother. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was sorry she’d had a horrible, horrible, horrible day, but she shouldn’t have taken it out on her mother. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Juanita’s mother wrapped handkerchiefs around the sharp ends so that our hands wouldn’t get scratched. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

My mother is much happier when she has a house full of guests and extra chairs around the dinner table. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Sweet mother of— But Grandma rocketed out of her chair. “ A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stayed with him until he fell asleep that night, leaving the hospital in icy darkness and driving back home to Euclid Avenue, where my mother had already turned off the lights. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But to my mother, I just said, “I promise you, Mom, that if it ever gets to be too much, I’ll stop. But I’m not there yet.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

When the strange animal did come, it went straight to the boy’s father and mother and quickly ate them up. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Sure, I had to set the table, but her mother used dainty china every night and she had to hand-dry the plates. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

"He was the greatest man who ever lived," she heard her mother say. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Jamie loving me would make my mother not loving me hurt so much less. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When a sick person was about to die, my mother could read the fact of it a year ahead of time on the daughters-in-law’s faces. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mother rolled her eyes the same way that the second daughter had rolled her eyes at her older sister. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He said, “Oh, I assumed you lived on campus. Did you stay to take care of your little brother after your mother died?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“And her mother is Mrs. Coulter, of the Oblation Board.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He was unmarried, and was survived by his widowed mother and a brother. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Hymir was not among the slain, and Tyr was relieved, for he did not want to bring his mother any additional distress. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Here, her father would seem crass, with his unnecessary big words, and her mother provincial and small. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Do you be sayin’ your prayers to the Little Flower each night askin’ that you grow up half as pretty as your mother. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he spoke to her, he called her mother. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the goose was determined to bring his poor mother back to life. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He had learned that no crime was beyond atonement, that even he, defiled by a mother’s murder, could be made clean again. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not wanting to test the idea, she tried burying her face in her mother’s side, but she couldn’t fit under her stiff arm. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

On July 1 1858, Emma wrote nothing in her little diary There was no need to; a mother never forgets the date of her child’s funeral. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she climbs into bed, I open the suitcase with my mother’s clothes. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Another mother, Belinda Caceres, twenty-nine, prays that her children, ages twelve, nine, and two, will have enough to eat and will not get sick while she is gone. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

My mother had initially been told I was shot in the foot. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

On one such night, Ammu, aged nine, hiding with her mother in the hedge, watched Pappachi’s natty silhouette in the lit windows as he flitted from room to room. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even his mother said he was worse than Don Jaime had ever been. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaede rubbed at her eyes and asked, “What about the mother?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

You are innocent when you do not know, my mother cried, but already you know too much about the flesh and blood of the Márez men. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother appeared in my room and for some reason she didn’t seem real. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“When we get back, my mother will probably be home and then you can tell her what happened,” Jennifer said. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe all women were like my mother, concealers of secret children. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Lupita saw her mother bite her lip and then look suddenly away. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“And if you’re not ordained, you can come home and it will be like you never left,” her mother said. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” he said to his mother, “I think there are two pounds.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls came for a week, early on, at the end of summer, when my mother was still in her house in the Soo and we could all pretend this was just another visit. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They all bore with pride the name Aureliano and the last name of their mothers. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I saw my mother looking rather grim, but she nodded. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no point in flying us across the country for next to no mothering. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only was her voice robotic; she was also saying things that she never would have said before, expressing sentiments that seemed to be at odds with the mother Flora had always known. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Her mother was pregnant—a fact that had embarrassed Corinthians when first she learned of it. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this was just one of a dozen things that kept building up the pressure on my mother. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on in the kitchen and dress, Vera,” the mother said. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Is it what you carried onto the train the last time you saw your mother and father, as your first life was slipping away? Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The woman—her mother?—behind her is covered head to toe in black cotton. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

That long road, her life, which she had followed for sixty groaning years, had led her at last to her mother’s starting-place, the altar of the Lord. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She waited a long time before she added, “If I am very honest with myself—and on occasion I can be, you know—when Dad fell in love with your mother, I felt left out.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother looks surprisingly pliable in those old snapshots, as though she liked nothing better than to have her man in uniform arrange her against the porches and lampposts of their humble neighborhood. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Before Lynn’s body was taken away, my mother had me cut my sister’s fingernails and even her toenails and place them in an envelope. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Did your mother know you had that much on the place?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe my mother was afraid that I’d say things like that out loud and so had cut my tongue. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear the muffled scream of the boy’s mother as she runs through the crowd, shoving past people, some of whom stumble and fall and curse, adding to the chaos. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Son, can you at least just tell her the story, beginning to end?” my mother requested. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

My mother’s question hangs in the still air of memory. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In public, my father and mother spoke a hesitant, accented, not always grammatical English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Knock Knock Your mother answers the door, and you hear April’s voice, but wait: she is not alone. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

His mother would kill him if she saw that. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“She’s homeschooled, you know. Her mother brought her to me. I guess she wanted a break from playing teacher. One day a week. Four, five—yes, five years now.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

She clung to her mother’s dress, tears spilling onto her bruised face. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I am your mother and I want to keep you safe.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Her fat mother waddled in, grinning and shouting, “Here he comes! Even one minute he couldn’t stay with Victoria!” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“There’s a squirrel,” said her mother, speaking more slowly now, as if she were pointing at each word as she said it. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

I conferred with my mother about my plight, and as always she had an encouraging word. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother was gone, but this...this was like finding a whole new part of her, a part of her he’d thought was lost forever. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, I saw sparks—bright blasts of gunfire—hitting my mother. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“A little something here and there, but...my mother would kill me.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

This summer she finally realized it wasn’t the other kids that were the problem or her father or mother or her annoying shrink. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The ring was made from a small topaz charm that Beatrice’s mother had left behind when she moved away. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was next to her, and on the outside was my mother. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“NO!” my mother shrieked from inside the wardrobe. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are your mother and grandmother not important? Where are they? Why have they not come out to greet us?” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother attended to my father, improvising her own version of CPR while also minding Shani. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Frank saw himself as a six-year-old, curling up in his mother’s lap even though he was much too big for that. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Your mother!” he roared, and she felt the blast of his frustration radiating out from him like a bonfire. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sleeping in the narrow room were the mother, another daughter with her husband and two children, and the woman, who may not have been there. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

As women, the four girls criticized the mother's efficiency. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“No, no thank you,” my mother would say. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leave my soft, worn hunting boots for a pair of expensive machine-made shoes that my mother thinks are more appropriate for someone of my status. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pinned to the wall was a note in red on the last piece of drawing paper, in writing that was not her mother’s: Wicked girl. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then Amy’s mother called us all in for pizza and soda. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He sat in the last row with his mother, Courtney, and Heather. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Finn had been trying so hard to block out everything the booming voice of his mother was saying behind him. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Assef’s mother looked at me like she wanted to say something, but she didn’t, and I realized that neither of Assef’s parents had said a word. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother wanted to call her Clara, but her grandmother did not believe in repeating names, because it created confusion in her notebooks that bore witness to life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seriously, I know my mother and father had their dreams when they were kids. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were sitting on the floor, about the brazier, and my mother was in the bedroom doing something. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard his mother’s voice, but he knew he couldn’t even turn around to face them. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Your mother closed the windows, but we could still smell the smoke. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Once in a while, my mother's canasta friends, who declared they hated pennies in their purses, disposed of them gladly in the whale's mouth or the canopy of cloud. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She passed young saplings clustering around the bases of the tallest trees like children surrounding their mother. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

No wounded men screaming in pain or calling for their mothers. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother’s blue gazing globe, batted off its pedestal into a million shards. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“If they do that,” my mother said, “maybe you won’t have as much money as you do now. There are many more poor people in China than there are rich.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put his hand over my mother’s hands. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He dared not go home to face his mother—she would know at once that something life-changing had happened. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Whatever you do, Dimple, I am your mother. I will always support you. I am always proud of you. Okay?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But Moss could live with all of it as long as his mother was there. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Dad pulls me away by both shoulders which means the conversation is over NOW I look around for Michael because his mother was shot like Devon so he should be at the fun raiser too. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it were not for him, I would be with my mother. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Did you go outside to see if you could do anything?” my mother asked. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess,” Seven grumbled, noticing that her mother had not mentioned the Nightbeast. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I know what your mother’s good at, and I don’t need reminding.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

When Aru looked into the pool, she saw a memory of her mother—a much younger version—walking hand in hand with the Sleeper. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

One day everyone would see her mother’s brilliance. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her memories of her mother were all secondhand, borrowed from the humans she visited in the night. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The dinner bell sounded, and his mother called to him to come inside— called until finally her husband said, “No. I’d leave him alone.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is why my mother destroys everything I make. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

My mother would not buy from parents, crying and clutching. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mother still calls them the four girls even though the youngest is twenty-six and the oldest will be thirty-one next month. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“That is very strange. But I suppose you had no opportunity. Your mother should have taken you to town every spring for the benefit of masters.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Mai led her straight to Dell's car, where she wordlessly opened the backseat door so that her mother could be face-to-face with Willow. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

On the long train ride from the countryside, Celia lost her mother’s face, the lies that had complicated her mouth. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father is drinking hard and throwing hard punches, so Rowdy and his mother are always walking around with bruised and bloody faces. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ugwu was about to help his mother into the car when Master said, “Step aside, my good man.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I hope when I’m Hiroshi’s age I’m not still suffering from my mother’s disinterest in me. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Besides, your mother says that maybe First Congregational doesn’t need to know everything we’re thinking.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“My mother, ” said the Pea sadly “Mice are rodents,” said the king. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Charlie had been slowly stroking his mother's hair, desperately hoping that she would open her eyes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“We caught a lot here last time. My mother cooked some for dinner, but there were so many that I nibbled on leftovers while I was playing the Gaming Machine after dinner.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Noor and his mother came up beside them, and then a loud splash echoed on the right, followed by the sound of running feet. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Her mother had simply met her at the bus stop every day. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a scene from my old kitchen, where my mother treated the dying, multiplied by ten, by fifty, by a hundred. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She says, "I wanted to be your mother. From the first night I met you, I wanted that." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

All she could think was that she’d never seen that photograph of her mother before. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

As the needle went into my brother’s arm and he screamed, my mother looked at me with agony written all over her face and assured me, “Next one doesn’t hurt.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got all the windows open to let in the night breeze, but it's still hot as a mother up in here. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Horses!” her mother had gasped when the carriage rolled up to the dock. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

But I had never heard anyone announce to their twenty-four-year-old daughter, as my mother had the week before, that the father she’d previously been told had abandoned her hadn’t even known that she existed. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t hit him for calling me a long-legged chicken after I had gobbled down his mother’s fish and rice. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, I gave my mother the stack of photos to store with the rest of Caitlin's letters. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Until you leave with only your phone, your wallet, and a picture of your mother. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Her mother means well; her father less so. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She said to him, “I’ll get your mother. I bet she hits harder.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I wished I had my own cell phone, but my mother probably would have taken that away from me, too. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

When she was done she held it tightly in her lap and looked blandly at her mother. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

My mother brought a note from the priest, Dr. Cowpar, and there’s supposed to be a job. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He slept in my bed, which my mother fixed up with a new nubby beige bedspread, and I slept on a cot next to him. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She looks like the mother of the jungle.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I looked up and saw my mother, her face twisted as if she’d bitten something sour. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

My mother is an older version of me, but she is also something I will never be. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He nods and says, “I know it’s hard to believe, but your mother is a really hip lady. Or—she was. Once.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

My mother put a hand up to her mouth. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her mother’s lips were parted slightly, as if she were calculating the answer to a math problem that had been in her head a long time but she had only just come upon the answer. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

After a long quiet spell the rocker began to squeak, and it made the boy jump, but his mother didn’t notice. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d finally told him no, once and for all, and my mother had gone and told him yes. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the father scooped up the son and handed him to the mother. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“If my mother had forced Luke or me to drink hot sauce, paddled us, or not fed us, we would have been placed in foster care, wouldn’t we?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

My mother—so pretty and meticulous in life—wears a stiff grimace in death. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She prays to the Virgin of Guadalupe, asking her to bring all the children on the train safely to their worried mothers in el Norte. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She felt the memory of her mother’s hand again. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

One time when we were in Płaszów a guard struck my mother on the side of her head with a wood plank. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Alarmed, I stumbled and fell headlong into my mother’s arms. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother wraps her fingers around the bars of my cell. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Chavez always looked the other way when I talked about my mother, and none of my caseworkers answered any questions about when my next visit would be. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

His mother had never allowed him to have a dog, but she made no objection to P, T. being in the house. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

But when Tabitha got worse, my mother became frantic and gave in. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother was midwife to whatever spewed forth, not being able to choose as with the old and sick. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cole’s mother dusted imaginary specks off her dress, then picked up the feather hesitantly. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I was so scared! I thought they were from my mother’s school.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

These days, whenever we talk about Milton, my mother and I come to the conclusion that he got out just in time. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I was sitting at the breakfast table, waiting for my mother to finish packing a sack lunch which I always promptly threw away as soon as I rounded the corner. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the room, my mother would be learning her lessons on the harpsichord. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

One of the songs was called “My Favorite Mistake,” and my mother liked to joke that she could have written it herself—about my dad. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

But as I round the corner to the kitchen, I run right into my mother. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

They had grown up in a ruined home, witness to the moral and economic deterioration of their father and then the slow illness of their mother. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, teach me how to be a mother, and give me courage!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Inside, my mother said, everything was made of aluminum and steel. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Long before his mother sent him away for the last time, the boy and his stepsister had forged a quiet alliance. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The garage door suddenly rolls open and my mother’s car is there. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Auntie Seema is setting our small table and shaking her head to see my mother so anxious. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His mother couldn’t or wouldn’t do much about the bullying, and Frank responded by staying in the house as much as possible. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Angry shouts filled the air, and then he saw a frightened Sunjin and his mother step out into the street. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The journey was long and harsh, and by the time they made it to Idaho, to a Mormon settlement called Worm Creek, Anna’s mother was sick, dying. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It isn’t lost on me that somehow all of my wishes were granted: My mother is on island, and Kalinda is here too. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“So does your mother. I could see—the ineffable way they looked at me.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Too well,” her mother sighed, as Minli had a habit of quick acting as well. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then we dressed up Sam in funny clothes until my mother scolded us. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry,” her mother said into the phone, “could you hold on a second?...What is it, Hazel?” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

My mother didn’t need anymore to tell me to watch out for the sun. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at the precise rendering of my mother’s family room. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

If my mother had received a fraction of the money the Mosses—or any of my foster parents—were paid, she could have established herself in Tampa and made a home for us. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

My mother had built it, piece by piece, a couple of years ago when she was getting some new level of certification in computer programming. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He wasn't sure his mother even thought of Eleanor as a girl. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“The daughter resents a mother forever who keeps her from her love,” Ma said as we dressed to go to Eric’s house for dinner. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

By daybreak, when my grandmother and mother made their way home, the entire family was home safe, proof to my grandmother that our family was immune to harm as long as they went to plays. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amaka wore the same bright red lipstick as her mother; it made her teeth seem whiter when she smiled and said, “Merry Christmas.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Pet put her mother’s stitched hand on her shoulder and squeezed a slight warning. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

When we got home, my mother was sewing a hem in the kitchen. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing a motorcycle jacket over her cocktail dress and has a slight posture he recognizes from his own mother as a reformed chainsmoker. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe my dad even figured out what I’ve been doing, that I’ve been planning on taking his boat, and they want me to give up on looking for my mother. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I thought once again of my mother’s decision to stay home with me and Craig. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As I never saw my father or my mother...my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He thought about the look on Flora’s face when her mother said that life would be easier without her. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

He waited for a very long time, then he said, “Your mother has had to go into hospital.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

You will never, my mother says, say ain't in this house. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Joseph’s mother excused herself and spent most of the time standing outside the house, chain-smoking cigarettes in her black dress. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And we need our mother to be in a good mood. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Gunners sleep, nuns in a crypt beneath the cathedral sleep, children in old corsairs’ cellars sleep in the laps of sleeping mothers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Uncle Darnell said, “Come talk to me, sis,” and led my mother outside. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I was sitting on the couch reviewing my math homework when the lock on the front door clicked and my mother walked in. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

He smiled—not like my mother, but it would do. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her mother thought it was because her eyes were almost swollen shut. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Of course, my mother and father would have been happy if she’d just gotten a part-time job at the post office or trading post, and maybe just moved into an upstairs bedroom in our house. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Marigold could not believe she was having this conversation with her own mother. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The two fawns were still young enough to have speckled coats, but as the summer went on they would lose their spots and become as brown as their mother. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you really think I can be a mother of sons? Don’t you think they’ll be loyal to her, since she gave birth to them?” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is dressed like my mother and she looks like my mother, but she is holding a gun, and the determined look in her eyes is unfamiliar to me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They pivot away from me like one animal, amid shouts of "The family's coming out! There's the mother." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Good. If you ever want to talk about this again after you have that conversation with your mother, or you want to discuss anything else—anything at all—just shoot me a text.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It has happened already, then,” I could hear my mother say. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She then replaced the bottle on the shelf above the sink, taking care to put her mother's bottle back in the cupboard. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother had just sold Hazel’s first precious stone: a small diamond. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Being compared to my mother makes me want to punch Lorena right in the mouth, but I do my best to control myself. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

From the one photo I had of them, I knew I’d inherited my father’s straight nose and my mother’s crooked smile. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The guidelines on how to keep a young bonobo healthy are pretty short: When they’re with their mothers, they’re happy and healthy; when they’re not with their mothers, they begin to die. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t care what time it was except that it seemed so important to her mother. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Biology — another thing her mother wished Theresa hadn’t learned at the convent school. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tells me to speak to her about my adventures leading up to finding my mother instead. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Didn’t he know that maybe McShane and mother wanted to be alone for a minute, at least? A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dudley edged along the wall, gazing at Mr. Weasley with terrified eyes, and attempted to conceal himself behind his mother and father. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

We sat on the steps of the porch, where my mother’s words could reach us only in spurts. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

A full symphony orchestra was swelling out of the radio; their eldest sister Gwen was slicing onions and singing; their mother was bent broad-beamed and red-faced over an oven. The Dark is Rising 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Molly continues her story—how her father died and her mother couldn’t take care of her, how she ended up with Ralph and Dina. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The monster mother went down the tree to the ground. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Rafik had recently started cutting up onions, which their mother said was a great help to her. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

At least the babies had a mother to search for them. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Did you wash her all over?” my mother would ask him, speaking obliquely as usual. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s the smell of fall,” said my mother. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

"We are. But you know my mother is sick, Ranee." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The moment my feet touched the floor, I checked under my mattress where I’d tucked my mother’s things—just a temporary hiding place till I could bury them back in the orchard. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put Noor’s library books in a bag and left the apartment, after checking in on his mother. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Though it was charity, my mother took it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Slow down, Kabir. Not you and your mother. Just you. You alone." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Your mother knows she can depend on me.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We crowded into Josh’s car, which had more room than our rental, and headed to New Hampshire to have lunch with Phil’s mother and his brother’s family. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Now colored folks like Ophie and her mother, historically in bondage, exercised the freedom they did have to make their way to the city, escaping the chokehold of Jim Crow. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I watched the mother and the baby for some clue to their mutual satisfaction, but before I had discovered anything, the doctor called me in. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I carried their histories, along with those of my mother and grandmothers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Even a baby, wrapped behind his mother’s back, flashed a gummy grin and drooled at me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But his mother believed; it was her last hope; it was what had kept her going through the long years. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their mother played Mozart the night before the piano left. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

My mother told me that that could not be, that Granny was already overburdened with looking after herself and her other children and could not afford to take us in. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Seema,” my mother said, “can you get a plate for them?” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Hanako glanced over, but the mother still had her eyes closed. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I wanted to hug my mother but she didn’t open herself to let me. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

"Kill the other and seize the halfman. He can milk the goats and make the mothers laugh." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

From time to time she persuaded herself she remained for Briony’s sake, or to help her mother, or because this really was her last sustained period at home and she would see it through. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Please don’t play those patronizing games with me. Not now. Not with my mother.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Once she's outside, my mother looks in my direction, and I wonder if she can see me. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My mother and I went with two nurses; my father didn’t go, because he had become so recognizable from TV that he was afraid he would attract cameras. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Her mother and his father were gunned down. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “My mother painted it last summer while I painted the trim at the bottom.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

And it was too hard seeing my mother like this. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

My mother tucks us back into our bed whispering, We have a home up North now. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Get out! And tell your mother I need to speak to her.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I know only one side of the story: my mother’s. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“That’s great, Mom,” I say, happy that my mother seems brighter than she has these past few weeks; it’s been so hard to see her spirit being stripped away. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Afterward, Turner rowed all around the island, and his mother was surprised by how sure he was on the water. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“You mother is a good cooker,” said Gilbert. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

His mother washed his pillowcase and sheet every week, just like she did for the people who lived in the big house down the road. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not my mother or Prim, obviously; they’d only become sick with worry. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Caroline and I had never drunk coffee in our lives, and the fact that our mother served us coffee that night made us both realize that our secure, ordinary world was forever in the past. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the children on this train have been at the Children’s Aid for so long that they have no memories of their mothers. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Useless had learned how to be an nganga from the water spirit. He became a great chief, and his mother, who had been mistreated by everyone, was treated like a queen from then on.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Miss Meg March, one letter and a glove,” continued Beth, delivering the articles to her sister, who sat near her mother, stitching wristbands. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wondered what else her mother had done to survive—so that they both could survive—those early years. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Do you want me to get the nurse?” my mother asks, and her glowing face has been replaced by a pale, worried one. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Before I left, I called my mother and father. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But myth was the ordinary terrain of his mind, whereas it had never occurred to him that the Godslayer might have a mother. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And then Zola turns to me and says, “Where is Vinny’s mother? And father? How come he lives with his grandmother?” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Her mother’s voice, the feel of home, receded for the moment, and her thoughts turned forward. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She takes the phone in order to hear the news for herself, to console her mother. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When she burst in, frightened and upset, her mother had no idea what was wrong. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

My father and mother both insisted on dropping me off. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Here. I'm afraid I don't have a fork, but at least they're tasty. My mother sends them along, since we haven't gotten around to planting trees yet out here.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“It's not how I pictured it. What about you?” her mother said. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The anger that overwhelmed him in the wake of his mother’s death receded into numbness. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He remembered the tears his mother cried when she found out about her. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

His mother sat beside him wringing water out of a washcloth. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Like I wasn’t a good mother,” she told me. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

We borrowed a bucket and mop and a bottle of disinfectant as well as a pile of rags from my mother, whose face was set in a question she did not ask. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother says good night, and we tiptoe back down to the basement, where Layla is just starting to toss about. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

My mother started right off with complicated arithmetic, and since she didn’t know French, she said she would teach me Latin. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure books like that exist…,” her mother said carefully. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

That’s why my mother was able to read my mind and know I felt guilty. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Missed out on the best of her mothering years, but it's not too late yet.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

However, today, when I think of “mother,” I think of another woman, my father’s first wife, Florence Dean. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Why?” exclaimed Ron, slamming his spoon down and glaring at his mother. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

More than once, the young lady called her mother in the middle of the night in pain, and the pair rushed to the emergency room. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The butcher would let you pick your own chicken if you wanted to, but Liyana’s mother didn’t. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

With the right hand, she rubs her mother’s belly. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Axel takes his hand, slides it on top of his mother’s; as tightly as she grips the wood, he grips her. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I think Leann may have a point, David,” my mother said. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Unless you counted her mother saying, “I told you not to pack all your books in one bag, Em.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Shahnaz Auntie, the bride’s mother, looks grim, probably worried about her daughter’s reaction to the wedding night. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

—I realized that your mother couldn’t see the emptiness, she couldn’t see anything. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

How his mother had been able to write to the company and request a fresh set of cards. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Because he worked the night shift, he would make sure we got busy doing our homework, and by the time he had to leave for work, my mother would be walking in the door. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Within fifteen minutes, the four boys had kissed their mother and were on the road to Lwów with the clothes on their backs and a little bread in their pockets. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She named him—and no one but her sister and his mother doubted her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Only one is from my mother — the other is from Scott. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting with her back against the tree, she remembered a tale her mother had once told her about a fairy who lived in the mountains north of Rook Hill. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother crossed her heart to Rachel that we weren’t going to sell her, but reassurances of this kind are not the words you’re prepared to hear coming out of your mother’s mouth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was it my mother’s job in life to embarrass the heck out of me? The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I wanted to see Miss Maestas and deliver my mother’s greetings before I got involved with the gang. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hated her mother for moving away from Scotland, hated her father because he didn’t seem to care that she had gone. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

All I've learned here in nine years from my mother and my teachers is not enough to fill the gaps. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes and picture my mother and father sitting at the dinner table in silence. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Dr. Doris said, “Today I want us to talk about your mother.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I imagined she had on sweats and a T-shirt, and had her hair wrapped in a silk scarf, like my mother used to do before she went to bed. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I did not like to play with Third Wife’s daughters, who were as docile and dull as their mother. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

How would I describe it to my mother? Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“They always bring that up, just like our mother! ‘Why can’t you turn people to stone? The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Except I’d seen rage appear on my mother’s face for an instant. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

So much nothing that at my age, I am flying to Philly to move back in with my mother. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

His mother keened over the body for three days. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anastasia had been trying to tell me that trying to get married on the same day as your mother was the wrong thing to do, but I wouldn’t listen.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

My mother's fingers are pressing into my arms, but I'm glad for it. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then, one day, James’s mother and father went to London to do some shopping, and there a terrible thing happened. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

My mother’s face went to stone, which was about her normal face when she wasn’t the crazy mother mountain. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

My mother said, “Call me what you want. I want to see my daughter.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She thought of the old woman at the market, of the things she’d said; then she thought of her mother. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

One afternoon as we walked home from the bus stop, I asked Mommy why she didn’t look like the other mothers. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to go home now and worry because you can’t go through the world short a tooth without your mother knowing. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She sat down at the table, and when my mother had her back turned filling the jug, Betsy gave me a wink and jerked her head toward the door. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The term welfare queen became a not-so-subtle code for “lazy, greedy, black ghetto mother.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I wanted to hold it, but the mother leaped to her feet and bared her teeth. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mother tugging a toddler along the sidewalk froze in place when she saw my trunk. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

At that moment I spotted my mother on her bicycle heading in my direction. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Behind Finn, the public address system crackled, and then he heard his mother’s voice boom out throughout the entire auditorium: “I killed everyone who disagreed with me...” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Ugwu held back from reaching out to touch the cement wall, to see how different it would feel from the mud walls of his mother’s hut that still bore the faint patterns of molding fingers. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, my mother had me go outside and search through our garbage. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

So, yeah, I’m gonna take it.. . if your mother lets me. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

“You felt Him as a child,” his mother said. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Or worse, move them in and they’d try to become my mother. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But her mother and father would find cities like Rochester and Syracuse too big and bewildering, too noisy. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I was sitting in my mother’s hot sticky arms. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as my mother left the room, Joey gave a disgusted grunt. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was smart, kind, and gentle, and she reminded me of my mother, so I worked hard to make her proud of me. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cliques of girls sit at round tables with white tablecloths, the same ones my mother ironed in our living room last night. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“This life is killing me, Chuck,” her mother saying in a voice hoarse with tears while her dad stood in his army greens, quiet as always, his hands worrying the edges of his hat. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The national news printed his mother's full statement decrying the violence that took her son's life, and demanding justice. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"And I am trying to tell you. Your mother told Izzy and Grandma Draper that she wanted to move to New York State, so Grandma set up a job interview with Dr. Gershom." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the week’s holiday after preliminary training, before the probationer year began, she had stayed with her uncle and aunt in Primrose Hill and had resisted her mother on the telephone. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Your mother will be back when she's good and ready. I'm not going to beg her.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“No, my son, stay here and I’ll bring back your mother.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Everyone else, including his mother, his brother, and his uncle and his family, was on the other side. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Later, my mother said, “They took out all my equipment.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, baby, you can’t go,” his mother had told him a few weeks ago. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The most obvious examples are iterated possessives such as my mother’s brother’s wife’s father’s cousin. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Some. Along with mothers and grandmothers, widows and maids ... would you condemn them all to die, my lord?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“He’s always ranting and raving about how awful colored people are. That's when he’s not yelling at my mother and smacking her around.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Belky begins to think that if she doesn’t see her mother soon, she will never see her. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

A true mother, he tells Lourdes, isn’t the person who carries you in her womb. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to, but she recalled her argument with her mother. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that, with my mother working, I could I now afford a few books and a uniform, I continued wondering what I was being educated for. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

As darkness fell, the leopard mother asked the hunter what he was going to be doing the next day. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Francie spent her first night on earth sleeping snugly between her mother and Sissy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother, listening to this debate, couldn’t fail to notice the stark contrasts between her two suitors. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My mother went to the kitchen and returned with a plate of oranges sliced into wedges. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Secret formula. My mother uses it on her hands, and it always works,” I told her. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Get over here to the sink and wash yourself,” his mother said without raising her eyes from the stove. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

For supper, my mother set only three places. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was always “Mbuyi, your son did this,” and then my mother would handle it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She gave my mother a cup of warm chai. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I said, “My mother don’t bake no pies. My mother writes poems about the revolution. My mama exists. Your mama’s invisible.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I thought of Teacher Gu, who was like a stern but loving mother to me. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother, surprisingly, still hasn’t even tried to get a glimpse of the work. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tia Veronica was in love with half of El Barrio. She was the biggest puta, my mother told us. They should have a plaque for her in the Boys Club at 112th and Second.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He went down to the basement, to the closet where his mother had stored everyone’s winter clothes. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

If I had died of a drug overdose or joined a cult, my mother’s thinking would have taken essentially the same form. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Before her mother died, her father would leave them for months at a time to do business in the south. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept wondering what Mr. Shine had come to tell my mother, although I had a feeling that his definition of good news might be different from mine. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

There’s much I could say about her mother, Queen Orlagh, who is planning a poisoning, but I bite my tongue. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

On the drive to Gallup, Nathan couldn’t wait to hear his mother’s voice again. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Everyone teases him except his mother, who pleads patiently. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made me think of my own mother. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We knocked on doors in the Cabrini-Green housing project, went to community meetings, and canvassed programs that worked with single mothers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I filled out all the necessary sections, my name and address, and listed my mother to be contacted in case I was in an accident. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Milo’s mother pointed again, then passed the usher and continued up the aisle. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Yellow Kettle, her mother, was quick-tempered but always laughing, and her eyes shrewdly took in the world. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

It would have been a sensible plan, except that Thom’s family was heading to North Carolina for the rest of the summer, and Rado was going camping in Colorado with his mother and stepdad. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Son,” my mother said, “wait outside while your father and I talk of this.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had an electric stove, and on the rare occasions when we ate by candlelight, my mother fit them, and when the charcoal grill was to be lit, my dad did that. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He appeared when he threw my mother’s body overboard. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I love you. No matter what,” my mother would say. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The luckiest thing he had ever done was to disobey his mother and show this cup to Cilia last July. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is work to do at the house, his mother has warned him. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My heart deflates because my mother is starting to feel farther and farther away. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I remember everything about that day those detectives walked into our house and I had to sit there and listen to every detail and tell it back to my mother in Creole. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Upstairs, I sometimes see my mother’s ghost on Mama Ya-Ya’s bed, her belly big, like she’s forgotten she already gave birth to me. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

How could her mother have done such a thing? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother also gave an interview, confirming the story and providing more context. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Including my mother, father, and me, that made eleven people. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore satin gloves up to the elbow and mothered a long line of smelly dachshunds with tearstained eyes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He looked up at his mother in her postal uniform, and something on his face must have given him up. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The boy sang at his work in the fields, and his mother rocked in her chair and sang on the porch of the cabin. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We drove past the house where Dusty had grown up, the trailer Dusty and my mother had rented, and the apartment where Tommy died. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

No matter how many times my mother told him before a dinner party, “No butter pagoda,” it made no difference. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Levy eased him aside and got out into the hall, where the maroon-haired mother was waiting like a doorman. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was possible because my mother and sister were staying with us and could look after the children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lindsey added, “Well but then again, a guy named Millard Fillmore became president. No loving mother would ever make a Fillmore a Millard, either.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

My mother had lots of army men over there for me, and I would just sit playing all day. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trolley continued on its way, but every time Ophie glanced through her eyelashes at her mother she could sense the older woman was awake and looking at her, worried. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She was going to have a mother and father who loved her and didn’t slam doors. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

You, your mother, and I had gone to Homecoming at The Mecca, and so many of my friends were there, and Prince was not. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She would be famous someday, Pearl was certain; someday her adored mother would be one of those artists, like de Kooning or Warhol or O’Keeffe, whose name everyone knew. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Their mother was peering into one of the pots on the fire, stirring and tasting. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, but he agreed to drop all the charges. He promised not to prosecute if you promise to stop spreading stories about him. He also wants you to get some psychological counseling,” my mother said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He listed all the different things his mother would put in it, like cauliflower, peas, onions, and his least favorite, turnips that masqueraded as the much more palatable potato until he bit into them. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Petey ripped a daisy from the ground and popped the head off, but it only made her mother laugh again. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

"What's the matter with you?" the mother said, waking her up. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her ladies evermore praised her beauty, and she loved to be told that she was too young to be the mother of a grown prince. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“No one needs to know this. You all just had to upset my mother.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“He steals and he tried to murder my mother twice.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“I should eat you in one bite and never think of you again. Just as you never thought of my mother again.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

A little while later my mother joined us. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

None of us talked much about our mother. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Timothy was down below, taking a nap, and had not been told about the expedition lest he worry and blame himself for the risk his mother must take. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, in return for agreeing to live in the house, Myron agreed to let my mother remain my sole guardian and, well, to leave me alone. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

All morning my mother had been scolding me, telling me to keep still, warning me that I must make no noise. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides the photograph of my mother that lives in a folder in my closet, the bowls are the best things I own. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The other mother looked healthier than before: there was a little blush to her cheeks, and her hair was wriggling like lazy snakes on a warm day. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Yes?” my mother said, lifting her eyes from her work to look at me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stood a fair chance—Travis’s father considered the kitchen to be his mother’s exclusive domain. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

And after a little bit of that, they looked at each other, mother and father, and realized the horrible mistake they had made. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

What could he say to his mother and brother and sister? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The eldest daughter, Eveanna, married and the mother of a boy ten months old, lived in northern Illinois but visited Holcomb frequently. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

We thought a kitten might lift our mother's spirits, but she declined all offers. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She had not thought about her mother in some time, and a sharp bolt of longing flashed through her chest. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This isn’t a movie about a girl who breaks away from her controlling mother, either. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My mother took one home from the laundry, and I saw him looking over our photographs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Be smart like your mother,” she kept saying. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flora Baumbach's answer was "Perhaps so. After all, she is your mother." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says everything will be different, he’s a new man, he hopes we’re good boys, obeying our mother, attending to our religious duties, and he’s bringing us all something for Christmas. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Our house has been silent for a long time and I understand that my mother is not coming back, but I don’t want to think about what happened, so I do as my father instructed. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she was not just a mother, she was also a wife to Arthur Burke, who had two sons of his own. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My mother is the kind of person who has a happy face for the rest of the world but not a lot left over for me. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The rabbi’s heartfelt words moved the entire congregation, and my thoughts traveled to my own Jewish mother, who was sitting in the fourth row. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother stroked her hair and said, “Don’t worry, Ash, I’m here.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems Principal Wertz called my mother when I failed to come back for the rest of third period, or show up for my fourth-, fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-period classes. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Pushed by the other people in the crowd, Jinjoo was forced to let go of her mother’s hand and fell to the floor. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

To find his mother, my friend Leo tried Beast Riding one time. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Just as Father needed to talk to Zuraiq’s mother, my brothers and I argued that we needed to talk to Zuraiq. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

A constant stream of diners comes to their table to shake Werner’s and Frederick’s hands and ask Frederick’s mother in low sycophantic voices about her husband’s latest advancement. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When I stepped outside, my mother bent down and embraced me much harder than my grandfather had hugged me. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

One time he borrowed my mother’s car to go to the shop for milk and bread. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My mother has terrific taste in some things. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Danielle replies, “Oh yes, of course. My mother is waiting for me.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

This time I begged Him to gather me that I might join my mother in His holy Heaven. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

After all, as her mother points out, the only thing Felicia ever did for the revolution was pull a few dandelions during the weed-eradication campaign in 1962, and then only reluctantly. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the most mothering we got, if you don’t count her coming to claim us. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivan’s mother ran up to Mama then, her beautiful smile brightening the day. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

When my mother saw them, she ran up the hill, her arms out, and I watched one of her sisters run ahead of the others, her arms out too. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not your mother,” Miranda said, lifting him by the armpits off her bed. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

My mother honks in the driveway to let us know she is back from the airport with Beth. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

We move on to easier topics, like the house my mother is trying to sell for her clients and the weather. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She knew the hymn,- her mother had taught it to her once, a long time ago in Winterfell. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My mother and all my relatives were there, beaming with pride as the principal read a long list of my academic and athletic achievements. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stabbed at his mother’s hands with the cutlass and ordered the driver to move along immediately. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother, who for some reason could not get a permit to work in Johannesburg, could not even afford to buy tea and brown bread. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew that her mother was absentminded and preoccupied, but this was ridiculous. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Matthew, go with your sister,” their mother said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I can ask my grandmother if she saw your mother,” I said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

A little later in the interview, the subject came up again, this time with the question being, again, what Reggie had told his mother about texting and driving. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Your mother is in a lather, I promise you,” she warned. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered, from her childhood in Rook Hill, visiting her grandparents’ graves in the family plot behind her mother’s old home. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t tell my mother because I could guess her worried reaction. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want you to go on if you pass Standard Six,” my mother said after a long pause. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will I be able to help the people of Orléans discover their beauty and make my mother proud? The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Our mother came into the room to quiet us down. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Caitlin, we know he means a lot to you,” my mother started to say, but I cut her off. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Or I would be after the schooner Shearwater came home and I’d shared with my brother the treasure that our mother, and then I, had found. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

No—I couldn’t help but voice the hope—photos of my mother or father. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Chess shot his sister a grateful look and took his mother’s arm, ready to help ease her toward the kitchen table. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I wonder what Auntie An-mei did to inspire a lifelong stream of criticism from my mother. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Aimee looked back down the corridor, her mother was gone. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“My mother will never let you touch me again!” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After seeking the approval of Ang Dorje’s mother, Boyd and Nelson started supporting the young Sherpa financially so that he could return to school. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“What happened to your village when your mother did not take you to the forest?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mary told her mother that she was pregnant, at age sixteen, Alma said, “I don’t care! You are going to finish school and go to college.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, I think it is just great,” said Flora's mother. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Taken out of school, fast, by my mother. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the winter, we made snowmen until our mothers called us in for a cup of hot milky tea and cardamom. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

My mother sat next to me, holding baby Andrew. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I said, “How come Herman E. Calloway never called on me and my mother? All he’d’ve had fo do was call on us one time and I know she wouldn’t have been so sad.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

An expression of shock swept my mother’s face. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the mothers come walking on their knees. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tristran produced the cottage loaf, the ripe, red apples, and round of cheese—hard, tart, and crumbly—that his mother had given him. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

My emoticons are puncture-ation marks from the time a dead horse fell out of the sky onto me and my mother. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

And my father explained: It was only because he said “Cheese,” and my mother was struggling to keep her eyes open until the flash went off, ten seconds later. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother, speechless, had refused food for three days. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now, looking at her mother’s set jaw and flat eyes, she knew there was no sense in asking any more questions. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

No one in the Lacks family remembers how they learned about Gold’s book, but when Deborah got a copy, she flipped through it as fast as she could, looking for her mother. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

My hands were still too small to make the squishing wet sound my mother’s hands made when she washed clothes. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

My mother explained: As soon as the game had started, Millie had taken her suitcase and run out to the Hulls’ car. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Are you sure you haven’t made a mistake?’ my mother said to the shop assistant. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother shook her head after a moment’s thought. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Whatever problem you have, please discuss it with him,” her mother said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe if I had been successful in changing her manner, her mother would trust her to be queen. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The smile I give her is the best smile I have, the one that makes my mother forgive me for staying out too late or for just generally being weird. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She handed Stella a Bazooka Joe bubble gum when her mother wasn’t looking. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Dragging him over my shoulder, I began to swim toward the riverbank, where his mother was crying out for me to bring him to her. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Just from listening to what the other children at school say, I know that not many mothers like Miss Joe. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Your mother and I could hear it buzzing clearly, from where we were standing. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, supposedly she was going to marry this guy she was in love with, some street activist or something, but her mother made her marry the Cuban, at least that’s what they told me.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“A mother will sometimes leave her pup on the beach while she hunts. The baby is left here on the sand. Safe. Away from the great whites who hunt them each summer.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The boy’s mother had brought home the empty meal sack. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know Miss Stewart has a sick mother because she had me mark some typing papers illegally and drop them off at her house after school one day. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I wandered lisdessly about the room, trying to think of something to do, dreading the return of my mother, resentful of being neglected. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, my mother, upon hearing the news that I had come out number one in my class, hugged and kissed me so many times and made me so many promises. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had wept in his mother's womb and had been born with his eyes open. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Then more silence both of them knowing there's nothing left to say. each winter Each winter just as the first of the snow begins to fall, my mother goes home to South Carolina. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I wish you’d told me what you knew about my mother,” I said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother placed a portion of it in a small bowl and left it overnight in a corner where there was a rathole. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe his father had changed, diverged from his mother. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Digging in our trash bins. Burning the bread. My mother hitting me. Taking the bread out for the pig but then giving it to you instead.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Young, before they had Clayton’s mother, and long before they had become grandparents. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“Here it is. Renault, Jerome E. Son of James R. Pharmacist at Blake’s. The kid’s a freshman, birthday—let’s see, he just turned fourteen. Oh—his mother died last spring. Cancer.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fill a cup of water for Malachy and me and my mother wails, Water for you and your brother. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t know which was more embarrassing, Natalie’s behavior or my mother’s. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hates to be under obligation to anyone, especially her own mother. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

In Barack’s childhood, his father disappeared and his mother came and went. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He felt in the quiet presence of his mother, brother, and sister a force, inarticulate and unconscious, making for living without thinking, making for peace and habit, making for a hope that blinded. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She just looked at the clock on the wall and when it was exactly nine o’clock, she tinkled a bell that was like the one my mother used to call the servants. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you expect children to do when you do that?’ my mother asked. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Plus she just saw her mother’s cells for the first time,” I told him. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She wished desperately that she could ask her mother for advice or just curl up in her arms and not have to worry about difficult decisions. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

After his mother’s funeral, Lorena’s dad took the bus from Guerrero all the way to the Arizona border, where he met a man from his hometown who everyone had recommended. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

My mother was a Masterpiece Theatre junkie back in the day, total anglophile. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

In that second I sensed that my mother and father had a relationship I knew nothing about. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you realize I’ve been trying to get your mother for an hour and a half and the line’s been busy?” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

His mother tells him something like, It’s only a phase. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can’t start too early. Speaking of which,” he says, looking pointedly at my mother’s outfit, “is that what you wear to work?” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

I remember my mother looking worried when he told her. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their mother was a German Jewish lady, and their father was a black army soldier. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Fujiko refilled Ishmael’s teacup carefully and asked how his mother was faring. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He knew his mother just wanted to talk privately with Mrs. Bloom. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

His mother exhaled, put her fork down, and stared at her son in utter disbelief. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“Good morning, Mr. Rosen,” her mother said with a brief nod of acknowledgment. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I always went for the clothes first, running my hands along the seams to see if anyone else had had the same idea as my mother, and once found a pair of diamond earrings. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “I have to tell my mother something.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

One young soldier lost his mother when his hometown was bombed, and two months later his father was reported missing after another air raid. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He wrestled the calf from its weakened mother. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the mother of April’s father, who had died in an accident before April even had a chance to get to know him. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had not seen my mother since before our first trip to South Carolina—more than two years earlier—but now she would know where I was and could come back for me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

They were, he thought, a little like his sisters, and his mother: so convinced there was a right and a wrong to everything, so positive that they knew one from the other. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I understood even from an early age that we weren’t just mother and son. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“It is good for him,” my mother said. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surely, not all newborns smile at their mothers? How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

What do I say to that, when the thought of seeing my mother again is the only thing that’s mattered—the one thing that’s given me a purpose in this world? Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

That would have been before my mother banned the song. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Maybe to try and catch a husband,” my mother said. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle and me bow and he walks me back in my thick shoes to my mother who is proud to be my mother. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And we’re thrilled about dining with your parents, Stuart. Please do tell your mother I said so.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Their mothers walked in groups of three or four, some in burqas, others not. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Where are you moving from?” my mother asked, to make conversation. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“We shall miss you, Kehaar. But when you come back we’ll have a fine warren here, with lots of mothers. You’ll be able to feel proud of all you did to help us.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother’s eyebrows, light and fine, drew together. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“If she didn’t have me, my mother would drag them around shopping. Can you see those two gorillas with shopping bags?” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jam knew that her mother would want answers, explanations, things unraveled into a pattern that she could accept as rational. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Whether she was working for my mother or Tina, Yolanda always arrived on the 8:30 A.M. bus and worked until 12:30. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had the doctor trait which some dogs possess; and as a mother cat washes her kittens, so she washed and cleansed Buck’s wounds. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each “mother” takes 8 beats to improvise using body percussion. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He told us that his mother would give us a ride if we paid a fee of fifteen pounds sterling. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, hard as she could, she threw the black cat toward the other mother. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

When your mother was little she wanted a dog. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the cell was an arrangement of sand and pebbles in the shape of a cross for my mother. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Then, just like that, it dawns on me: My mother is speaking to Mrs. Washburn in code. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s a law for black people only,” my mother said, and added that such a law had long stripped black people of the right to buy land and own homes. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But by the time they get there, Sien has given birth to a “very nice little boy,” and mother and baby are recovering. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They had to turn the child over to a neighbor and take the mother away for burial. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her fingers trembled around the stem of her glass, and then she said, “That was the neighbors. My mother said the neighbors did that. People are always jealous.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Toby knew the look Luke gave his mother right then. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He had fixed on that word as one that gave the appropriate amount of encouragement but did not interrupt the flow of the mother's story. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I looked forward to listening to my mother swap stories and sometimes a bit of local village gossip with her friends. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“I dreamed about Kweilin before I ever saw it,” my mother began, speaking Chinese. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mount Carmel—her mother’s home away from home. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I hear from your mother that she is sending you copies of my silly installments for Arlington News. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The snow was coming down harder now, and Hazel’s mother leaned forward in her seat as she drove, as if to will the car through it all. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

At the end of the day, though, dishes and more housework and her mother’s vigilant eye always waited for Joyce in the dark and close confines of the house. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He held my mother’s hand, and I kept a hand on her shoulder as he and Berry led the way. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We talked a little more about this and that—his mother, my mother, Des Moines. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

If his mother was alive, his father was a liar. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I repeated my mother’s last words as she’d walked out this same door so many years ago. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They were on their way up to spend Christmas with his mother and Sonia. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She smiled and asked my mother what the problem was. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s also where my mother works. And she’s been so proud of the smarter version of me....” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

During this ride, my mother argued with the rickshaw puller, who wanted extra cash to carry the two of us and our luggage. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother had been killed by one when Nhamo was only three. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Music,” said he, “which I transcribed from the songs of your mother’s country.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Then I would show August the picture of my mother and see if the moon broke loose and fell out of the sky. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to read expressions into those black button eyes, but Coraline thought that her other mother looked hungry, too. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“You have to believe me. I only go to see my children. I’m not involved with their mother anymore.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Steven’s mother has had to take a leave of absence from her job to take care of Jeffrey, so just when their need is greatest, half of their cash flow is gone. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, my mother and father both had false teeth. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In order to help Sunjin and his mother, Doha knew he had to talk to his father. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The boy and his mother were both dressed up. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The next day my mother received hand-delivered thank-you letters from our guests and left them out on the dining table to serve as a lesson in good manners to us. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She calls us in from the lane and when we sit at the table it’s hard for me to look at my mother the beggar. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

My mother was still on the phone in the kitchen. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

My mother and father were standing in the hall, looking unhappy. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

How can I tell my mother that I don’t want to go to a great school—one that’s an easy commute from home, but also from endless family obligations and her constant hovering? Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

My father had died when I was about eight years old, and Paraikon, my much older brother from my other mother, was now the head of the family. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

You are the girl who was once afraid to read aloud in class, afraid to spend the night away from your mother, and now these girls are following you. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

My mother, who was holding Luke, screamed, “I didn’t do anything! ” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

My parents kept it in the den, as my mother had read about predators posing as kids in chat rooms and wanted to monitor the websites Richie and I used. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

So how about the opposite case: what if a mother and father are not only proficient in English but spend their weekends broadening their child’s cultural horizons by taking him to museums? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It was hard to believe this was his mother. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

If he’s honest, private aviation doesn’t really get old, not even three years into his mother’s term. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It surprised me when she said that, reminding me that I had told Phoebe nothing about my mother. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He had seen the sketches and portraits that his mother commissioned back then and knew that, once upon a time, he had been handsome. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“When a man’s beloved wife dies, he mourns her forever—even if he marries again for companionship. Your mother is a hard act to follow. She will always be the love of your life.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Shortly after that, she resigned from her job as a journalist, finding that “the duties of wife and mother were a profession in themselves.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Her mother hushed her with an angry look. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

My mother was always holding on to my brother, Smell Factor, like squeezing him like a doll. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could hear her mother in the doorway, talking softly, like she was trying to put a baby back to sleep. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

In the morning, his mother would venture downstairs to lecture him on the evils of selfishness and bad language. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then I went to my room, stopping only to answer my mother’s inquiry as to whether or not I was hungry. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He watched Dad for days, just waiting for him to say, “Son, I think it’s time you met your mother,” but it never happened. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

He was much older than my mother, with a high shiny forehead and a large black mole on one nostril. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They follow her like kittens after the mother cat, don't they?” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Somebody was shouting in Igbo, “My mother, oh! My mother, oh! God has said no!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His mother had been drinking and was loud, and the bus driver decided to put them off the bus. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“My mother and I have been enjoying the regional competitions,” said Charles. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“She is a giant. I have seen the great cauldron with my own eyes. And as my mother’s son, I will be welcome in Hymir’s hall.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I remember thinking that wasn’t fair and I had asked my mother if they had Three Kings’ Day in Trinidad. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Then he said, very low, “Your mother told you, didn’t she?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our mother,” said Agravaine, who also knew the details, “went on a unicorn hunt, and she was the virgin for them.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Gogol, the camera,” his mother calls out over the crowd. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the Voice that controlled her mother had urged her on relentlessly. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She has been a good person, a good mother. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Owe him nothing, and he cannot harm you,” my mother replied. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

After that he brought me candy and fruit from the store, but he gave it to my mother to deliver to me, he never came into the room. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are getting big. Since your mother is not here to help us, I will do her work. Now watch and learn.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Spencer will be very pleased,” Stella’s mother said graciously. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I decided to heed what I’m sure would have been my mother’s advice and get a good night’s sleep before my first day of classes. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Save perhaps that my mother was a noble before she was a trouper. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My mother, armed with a scropbrush and a piece of Lifebuoy soap, purged me of years and years of grime till I ached and bled. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the war my mother felt that I ought to visit the country that had been our enemy. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I’m finished delivering the telegrams there’s enough time to go to the ancient monastery graveyard where my mother’s relations are buried, the Guilfoyles and the Sheehans, where my mother wants to be buried. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“They’re just like mine,” she said, but I barely had time to smirk at her immaculate manicure before she added, “and just like your mother’s, too.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

My mother hadn't let us come to his funeral because we were only children then, and he had died in the hospital, so the graveyard and even his death had always seemed unreal to me. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

My mother and I share muscular shoulders, and our lower center teeth cross at the same point. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

This little redheaded girl was touching a metal head while her mother watched her. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He helped his mother and himself to food. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brother and I stood against a wall while the bustling women worked frantically over my mother. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She left the line for a moment to run to her mother. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I wanted to give in to my grief for Harry, and for my mother and father, too. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

A few years later, an older cousin told him what a miscarriage was, and confided that Roy’s mother had lost a baby girl. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least it will have its mother’s breasts, says an old man. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Moments later I heard my mother’s footsteps, followed by a light rap on the door. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The two young men were staying at the Leaky Cauldron in London, preparing to depart for Greece the following morning, when an owl arrived bearing news of Dumbledore’s mother’s death. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He wanted to wake his mother and ask her questions but he knew that Lillian could not help him now. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all heard them call my mother ‘ ‘crazy’ ’ to her face for refusing good meat. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

On her birthday after school, she had called Omer to thank him for the wonderful surprise, and his mother, who didn’t speak English very well, answered the phone. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then the next time he would wake to the sound of his mother’s tears. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

And then Will’s mother asked the strangest question. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

One of her mother’s dresses lay on the floor of the hallway. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you sure you want to?” my mother says, a little anxiously. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “May and June and I take our mother’s Catholicism and mix in our own ingredients. I’m not sure what you call it, but it suits us.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The witch took from the boy his name Duny, the name his mother had given him as a baby. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“How is your mother?” tía Fermina asks as we pant our way up. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And, along with a warm embrace, Charlie's mother gave me a sturdy pair of canvas gloves. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

One day, when I was a kid, I found a videotape of The Midnight Special TV show from 1973 at the bottom of my mother’s underwear drawer. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

My legs quaking, I quickly made my way into the group and found my mother. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

When the police arrived a few minutes later, they found the American kid’s mother at the scene of the shooting, picking up the shells that had discharged from her son’s weapon. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

On his first day there, Zannikos, scared and feeling lost, found the building he was looking for, but his mother’s cousin had moved. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I still walked around with my mother’s advice ringing in my ear: Make the money first and worry about your happiness later. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And my mother, hearing it repeated so many times, began to believe it might be true. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Here was the man who had been so cruel to my mother. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the cabin, the boy’s mother was cutting wedge-shaped pieces of corn mush from an iron pot that stood on the back of the stove. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father was in town on errands; my mother was scrubbing the floors. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“We sure did,” Lark answers for her mother. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Maids in waiting and my mother passed it from hand to hand, admiring it, engaging they would buy it. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother goes into her nice lady act and says almost nothing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her son shyly peers out from behind his mother’s skirt. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She says she just likes to look at her mother’s handwriting. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“Now, I don’t need to hurt your mother, so please do exactly as I say, and she’ll be fine.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Vanderbilt longed to connect with his mother and one of his sons, both of whom had died. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I have had to separate myself from my dear wife and children, from my mother and sisters to live as an outlaw in my own land. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will they take their few belongings, or send my mother to prison and Prim to the community home, or kill them? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“The mother influenced her,” said the first judge. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Both he and Meggie’s mother had large families whose homes, so far as Meggie could see, were scattered over half of Europe. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Religion was a ritual that I indulged in for my mother’s sake and to which I attached no meaning. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s never told me. I don’t think she wants to remember it. Do you think it’s true? What she said about the Nightbringer? And about your mother?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then his mother’s voice became firmer than firm, and that was followed by more silence. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

They complain that their mothers work too hard to give them the attention they have been missing. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

On one level, I had never stopped loving my mother; on another, I still distrusted her. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The mother and father hid the children in the middle of the forest for six years. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw a miracle that transcended the miracles of the saints her mother had told her about. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your mother is very proud of you, Tidbit,” Polly told him. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But what makes you so sure they've come to Venice? Surely they didn't come just to ride on the gondolas...'' “It's their mother's fault!” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Enrique likes the people in the trailer, especially his mother’s boyfriend; he could be a better father than his own dad, who abandoned him ten years ago to start another family. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Petey and her mother got to Finn’s house about an hour after Finn attempted to grate himself into sausage and his brother had to cart him off to the hospital for reassembly. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Everyone told him he was crazy, that the rocky, wild hill could sustain no life, and my mother was more than upset. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

After my mother leaves there is no one to say, The children can choose their own faith when they're old enough. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

My mother was not crazy for seeing ghosts nor was she one of those the women teased for “longing” after men. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got attention by acting grown up, and my mother bragged about how early I was toilet trained and how clearly I spoke. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

My father was not educated in the sense that my mother was. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She became even more thoughtful of her mother. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grace had never heard her mother use the word magnificent before. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

No. She stared at her mother’s body, trying to process it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then we pulled the pink floral china that Mother had inherited from her mother out of its straw-filled crate and wiped it all down. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Photographs from Ernest’s adolescence portray a handsome young boy, with his mother’s full lips and his father’s expressive blue eyes. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

My mother and brother came and all three of us slept in that one room; there was no window, just four walls and a door. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought black power would be the end of my mother. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Are you walking in God’s face?—but it was Mrs. Muokelu who went over and took the baby from Okoromadu and placed it back in the mother’s arms. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Their raised voices draw their mother to the room. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I thought of Grandma getting married so long ago, bringing the four beautiful trunks full of gifts her mother had sent from Tianjin to Shanghai. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mozart was devastated when his childhood friend was killed in a boating accident just eight years later, the same year as the death of Mozart’s mother. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Nok couldn't believe the way he was looking at her mother—as though he was right and she was wrong. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

While he does, his mother fusses over my complexion. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I do, my fingers light on something else, something Locke’s mother must have left years before. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But her mother worried that they were too close to the thirty-eighth parallel that separated North and South Korea. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I think of all the good things my mother told me about Afghanistan, and I think I see a little bit of that in me. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Now that I am returned to my own tent, the mind relucts to recall the wailing anguish of these children, the manner in which they bat at their mothers and their own irruptions. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“He lost his birth mother. He learned how to ride horses, use and make weapons, be a hunter and a warrior. Had his first girlfriend.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

He didn’t much care for talking about religion with his mother. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Still dreaming of America, I see,” my mother said with a sigh of resignation. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Always working to show the neighbors what a good wife and mother she was. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I try to argue but quickly get the mother glare that goes along with the mother tone. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The soldiers held a gun to Lionel’s head and ordered him to lie down and become intimate with his mother. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Finally they broke into the house when Will had gone to fetch his mother home from the park. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was too lazy to get up, so I sat on the ground and thought about my two brothers, my father, mother, and grandmother. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

My father must have told me about them when he had first gotten it in his head to come to America, appealing to my mother that the whole of Europe was steeped in Jewish blood. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

One rainy day, with his mother shut in her room, he occupies himself bouncing a ball against the living room wall. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Many cried when their mothers left, and one wet his pants. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at his mother’s eyes and I saw they were sad. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother’s voice was tight; she was trying for my sake not to be scared. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother clapped and the sidekicks danced into the room. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m glad I was able to. But look, you promised to tell me about his mother.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered Margie and her mother and imagined them in New York, wearing beautiful clothes and eating bright yellow eggs. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You were lucky to be the one chosen in your family. Your mother will come for you in a couple years. You’ll see, the time will go quickly.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I give her another hug and turn my head to meet my mother’s gaze. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It is you and my mother who will find a good person when the time comes, Aunty,” he said, with a false demureness. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The skin would make a good pouch, and she remembered her mother once saying that the entrails could be dried and used as string. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could I follow my mother out of here now, and run away from what we’d done? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother told me that my father had it. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shrug my shoulders to start with, to tell my mother that it is very hard to explain. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother asked me one morning what I planned to do now that I had completed school. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I walked with my mother to the front door. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

What made the newsmen love the story was a group of stout middle-aged women who, by some curious definition of the word “mother,” gathered every day to scream invectives at children. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother kept the actual money hidden from my father as well. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

My mother says I’d lose my head if it wasn’t attached to my body. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

To be honest, Jinjoo’s interest in the church only grew in defiance of their mother. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I was gratified to have my mother there, but the fact that No-England came made it seem as though the regent himself had blessed the event. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has no memories of her mother but imagines her as white, a soundless brilliance. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

For years, the only evidence Morrie had of his mother was the telegram announcing her death. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our tactless mother, especially, only made things go from bad to worse. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

My mother liked her dress pattern and the little ones their candies, but the next day I was out helping in the fields like I had never been gone. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear my mother’s joyful cry from the cab of the truck. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had broken down on the phone with his mother that morning while telling her about it, he told a group of us, and she’d started crying too. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu liked Sunday mornings, the slow shifting of time, when she, dressed for church, would sit in the living room with her father while her mother got ready. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Surrounded by people I knew and liked, with my mother’s eyes looking pleadingly into mine, it was hard to refuse. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every thought of Du Barry and Madam Claire and the other Belles and my mother's Belle-book sends another surge through me. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He saw his father and his mother sitting with him up in his bedroom, which smelled of damp, while his father read them poetry. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

One Sunday, midway into a film, his mother left for the pharmacy, to buy her allergy medicine. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Except for her mother she had nohody to turn to, because her sisters never cared for her that much. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father moved to my mother and put his arms around her. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

My mother grabbed my hands and I felt hot tears scalding my fingers. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of that blue smock his mother had made him, now torn by bullets. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anger rises up in me because I resent and blame my mother for not holding on for two more months. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since both my mother’s and father’s families had helped to settle Washington County, I was interested to know how they and other pioneers had fared. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watching the soles of their sneakers running away, I push my hands into my pockets, touching my pencil, the business card, and the flat-topped buttons of Jason’s mother’s cell phone. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had to be a law against foster mothers who showed such gross favoritism. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I thought you were a kind boy. You wouldn’t be so cruel as to leave a girl and her parents waiting alone, would you? You’ll break her mother’s heart!” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Don't cry, she'd said when the other mothers started to get sick and when a few of them died. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

My mother doesn’t look too pleased with my response. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

My mother does not want to let me go away. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

My condition is a souvenir from the day a dead horse fell out of the sky and landed on me and my mother. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

And mother rabbits would tell their kittens that if they did not do as they were told, the General would get them—the General who was first cousin to the Black Rabbit himself. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And who was telling her mother it was going to be okay? Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Even though Miss Ella Pearl, Miss Trotter’s mother, was as colored as my mother, she told the census taker to write ‘Indian.’ Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

In one astounding burst of creativity, her ability had gone far beyond her mother’s teaching. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I am not made to be a mother. I need to fight." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I have seven brothers and five sisters. And a mother and father and a great-great-grandmother who’s one hundred and nine years old and a horse named Greta if I can ever find her.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

A shadow dashed across the night, and Seven jumped, clutching her mother’s arm. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She could run after her mother and stop her from leaving. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

And as long as Mo was there she hadn't particularly missed having a mother. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I knew I had to think, but my head was filled with the sound of my mother’s panic. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Bobby grudgingly tolerated being in the care of Joan, five years his senior, whenever his mother was at school or work. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“But your relationship is causing Ocean a real problem right now, and I’d be an irresponsible mother if I didn’t try to make it stop.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Summer was over, and I still hadn’t answered my mother, or the camp, about whether I’d be staying. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

At times the spell would be broken suddenly: on shelves or in hallways of my mother’s cave, large old shapes with smouldering eyes sat watching me. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tom glanced at his mother and then leaped into the wagon to drive the tired team into the barnlot. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was humming to myself, a song my mother used to sing me when I was a girl. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Prompted by a nod from his mother, Leon muttered a short suspended grace—For what we are about to receive—to which the scrape of chairs was the amen. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The others went silent; even his mother looked away from him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My mother wasn’t a fan of this idea. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Given the chance, my mother would have gone to college. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What can she do to improve her chances? What are the judges looking for?” her mother had asked. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Ben slid out of his hammock and made his way quickly to his mother’s room. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has a small space between her teeth like my mother's space, and Hope's and Dell's, too. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Lee, a church pianist, mother of two, and bank bookkeeper, had gotten pregnant after an extramarital affair. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

At the hospital, my mother wept and wailed. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

If the mother tiger escaped and swam to their island, she could kill several people before the rangers could tranquilize her. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You heard what the baas said?” my mother said to me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Look at the state of you!" said his mother. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine being fifteen years old and feeling as though your own mother could care less about you. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I am unable to reply, so full am I with longing for the mother I never knew. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

My sister got better every day, and I heard my mother telling my father that she thought the house itself was making Lynn better. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He stood directly in front of Naheed and her mother and sister, until her father stepped in front of his family. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I reached for my mother’s hand for comfort. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“This one was yours, and this yours,” my mother would say to us brothers and sisters, and fill us with awe that she could remember. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking about it now, I feel definitely that just as my father favored me for being lighter than the other children, my mother gave me more hell for the same reason. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It was only a loan," the mother continued. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But out here Prim, my mother, Gale, the people of District 12, everyone I care about back home could be punished if I can't pull off the girl-drivencrazy-by-love scenario Haymitch has suggested. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Four years later, Satchmo moved from his old neighborhood to Marlow Hill, after his mother had taken a job as an office assistant at a veterinary clinic. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

My mother stopped in her tracks and looked at me absently. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“But how on earth did they run it without a fanbelt?” our mother asked, understanding by the Reverend’s irritation that she was expected to return to the subject at hand. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the result of my not being able to decide which of my mothers to trust. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Don’t tell your mother, and then they’d get to finally, gratefully answer, Thank you so much. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Take out another sandwich,” my mother said to me; and she added, sternly, “and this time give her a bigger piece than yours or you won’t have any more.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recognized her immediately as the mother of the little boy who’d been on the observation deck. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Girls!” we hear their mother calling from the hall. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

All my mother ever said was that Khosrou II had his uncles killed and he was the best-looking boy in the fifth grade. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

My father and I looked at each other, then we explained to my mother what the boy had said. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Jeanne indicated the queen mother with a finger and whispered to Jacob, “She scares me.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

We found our mother clenching the rope that had been hastily strung to keep the crowd back. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

When we do finally get home, it’s almost dark and my mother is there. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

My vision started going by the late 1980s, so I had Hassan read me your mother’s books. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Who we are being so many hard facts held like candies or coins, just up one’s sleeve — one’s father, one’s mother, all the things that might quaintly be termed one’s station. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enrique is struggling financially Fed up with the cramped conditions in his mother’s apartment and their constant fights, yearning for some scrap of privacy, he has moved out and rented a bedroom in a trailer. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

But nobody from his mother’s family comes to the graduation. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I asked your mother if I could come in,” she said, “so I could play basketball.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

She lit into Mama, telling her how she needed to get a hold of herself and act like a mother. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Or we played with dolls our mothers had made us out of scraps of old clothing. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother put hers, a chrysanthemum, below her left breast. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kissed his mother on both cheeks and hurried out the door. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Melita’s mother and father did not belong to the National Socialist Party, but they had agreed to allow her to watch the parade. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When a mother put charcoal on her child’s face, it was a sign that the child was ready to starve for a vision, for power. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

And maybe, just maybe, I would finally be pardoned for killing my mother. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hana, Zeke’s mother, has small feet that don’t touch the ground when she sits in the easy chair in their living room. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Hanako hid the purple kimono in the closet, in her mother’s empty suitcase. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She hoped her mother wouldn’t say other goofy family stuff. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I nod, she asks, “But why do you need to know about them, to get your mother back?” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

After their mother died, she had come struggling out of the womb without help from throbbing muscles or the pressure of swift womb water. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew she had only been allowed to remain at the Academy because her father was the King’s Chancellor, and her mother—before she married him—had been a sage. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Thinking of my mother kept my hands steady. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He had ordered Naomi to stay at the table, too, but forbade her to touch the food her mother had served. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Roy’s mother and father had moved away from Detroit when he was only a baby, so it seemed silly to call it his hometown. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could use a friend, his mother says. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mother is on TV flying around in blue fairy dust, waving a magical wand in a cute sparkly outfit’ ” The magic of Disneyland had won Fern over to Vonetta’s side. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to say, Because I just want to be normal for a little while—not a refugee girl looking for her mother, but a regular girl paying a summer visit to Tiburon, South Carolina. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother’s number is inked inside the waistband. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Up there on a branch, barely spitting distance away, little sparrows rested dry and warm, having food brought to them in the comfort of a nest built by their mother. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Hazel couldn’t remember the last time she’d seen that kind of affection in her mother’s eyes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When her youngest child started high school, my mother got a full-time office job once again. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother protested tearfully to the proprietor of the saloon, who ordered me to keep out of his place. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom, we’re going to figure all this out and find you, Emma thought, as if she really believed she could communicate with her mother telepathically. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

At this, the girl knew that her mother had died and she began to weep. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Oh God, I thought, don’t let that man shoot my mother. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Edward soon took on the job of matching mothers and babies. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It wouldn’t hurt you to think a little. Your mother’s likely to have heavy groceries.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With your mother. You, your mother, and the squirrel. That's what your mother would like.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

It was his mother calling from the kitchen. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

But now she knew it was more likely that her mother had been named Fox because of how cunning she was. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Beside him hung her lady mother, and below them her three brothers all in a row. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I stopped scrubbing and turned around to confront my mother. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

That’s how it is with the firstborn, no matter what kind of mother you are—rich, poor, frazzled half to death or sweetly content. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother patiently sewing and sewing to keep life in her son’s body. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he got downstairs again, he could hear his mother and Mrs Boland talking in the kitchen. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Those visiting the spring were mostly women and young girls like my mother and sisters. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Dad spent hours in the greenhouse trying to save the plants my mother no longer loved. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Her mother pulled Eleanor to the top of the stairs, then pushed her down. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The click of my mother’s knitting needles every evening. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The other, more vaguely imagined, looked something like her mother. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I wonder how many times she’s done that for her mother. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

How did your mother get sick like that? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Another son might not have heard his mother’s last words as a prophecy but as drug-induced gibberish, forgotten soon after. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I think he did not like to follow their ways, and he wanted to please my mother. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had nightmares and got stomachaches when her mother went away on trips. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I was in the kitchen doing my new job—cutting food coupons out of magazines and newspapers—when I heard my mother yelp. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

But all it really took was seeing Vera all grown up—nearly the same age as her mother when we sat in the very same spot, doing the very same thing. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

My mother at this time seemed to be always working- cooking, washing, ironing, cleaning, and fussing over us eight children. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Maria was small, she imagined her mother had gotten lost in the desert. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Chantal is having small talk with her mother about the weather, the food, and her classes. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The son and his parents touched only arms, not chests; he might have given his mother the briefest of kisses. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then more screaming and an ambulance flashing its lights and my mother telling Clementine it’s time for her to go home now. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

By now Septa Mordane would certainly have sent word to her lady mother. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Look! My bed has two parts! There is enough room for you! I promise: I will ask my new mother if you can sleep on the top of my bed.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as his mother figures out how he’s finding solace, she brings him home the first book in the Bloodfall series from a shopping trip to Nashville, a recommendation from a bookstore employee. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She made him explain the plot, which was about a guy with a dead mother who kills another guy and then goes to prison for it. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My mother was right, I thought They had their place and we had ours. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the thing with my mother — she could never admit there was a space between right and wrong. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

We’ll be wrapped in pink fairy dust and ride away into the sunset together, mother and child reunited at last? Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“My father wants me to go to law school, my mother’s always throwing hints about medical school, but I’m going to be a teacher. Doesn’t pay much here, but it’s what I want.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He must say nothing about his mother, for fear Adam would think him babyish. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Her mother came back, saying, “I smell fire.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His mother’s eyes were sad, skeptical; but kind, patient, waiting for his answer. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Back in the cabin at the end of the day, my mother told me that I was too old for that kind of game. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she never tired of hearing it because it was her story, and whenever the mother told it, Carla knew she was the favorite of the moment. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s under control. You go on now, girl, and do something else. Leave your mother be.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

For reasons that he couldn’t quite fathom, he didn’t mind terribly when Juliet called him by the pet name his mother had for him. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

We had good times, especially with my mother. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those philosophers only sit in their churches and issue judgments based on inaccurate texts from Concordia,” her mother said. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother was livid at what had happened, but the player pleaded with her not to push it because he feared it might interfere with his career at Permian and be held against him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother decided to dish him out a plate every evening. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The bonobo had to feel like it had a mother again, and as soon as possible. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Try to remember it always,” he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia stood waiting. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Go on," my mother encouraged her, and this time she came forward, wiping her hands on her apron, and took the coin from my father, who directed her to stand it on the cloud. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

As soon as her mother died, she stopped eating, and started drinking more and getting real sick. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I've been telling your mother for years to apply for asylum. Who could turn her away after all your father did and what happened to him? And after all he did for those soldiers?" The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The younger woman was old enough to be his mother, and the older was likely her mother. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Try telling that to anyone who has heard his mother scream, “Here come the king bats!” followed by the poisonous fluttering of wings. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother screamed and pulled at Dustfinger’s hand, but he only held the note higher in the air. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until the ground had changed into a tiny patch-work quilt that she withdrew her nose, and faced her mother again. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

But Zeus looked at him sternly and told him he was as intolerable as his mother, and bade him cease his whining. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would finally be able to restore to my mother the wealth and prestige that she had lost after my father’s death. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What has your mother told you, Hazel? Has she never explained her wish? Or told you why you were born under a curse?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Hangover tending isn’t part of his job description, but he’s a mother hen. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

These were her mother's friends and the newly married daughters of her mother's friends—and Turtle, who was leaning against the wall, arms folded, smirking. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother had told him to ride home with me that day. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When the mother and father were gone, Will brought the whisky in from the forge and the clan had a meeting in the kitchen with whisky passed around in round-bottomed jelly glasses. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"I guess so. Look, Eleanor—" Her mother stepped away from the door, and her voice dropped. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I remember this ability of my mother’s, because now she is visiting my husband and me in the house we just bought in Woodside. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night Achilles’ mother, silver-footed Thetis the sea nymph, came to him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Violet was not married and I knew she lived with her mother in a house that had a high brick wall around it. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard you click-clickin’ down there at the table,” her mother replied as she sorted the elderberries in her basket. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I stood up and left, wondering if indeed my mother was mad. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother and Auntie Seema are sitting in visitor chairs inside the room. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He even shoveled out First Congregational in time for Sunday services, which Deacon Hurd now led and which Turner and his mother did not attend. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Mary Anne was biting his wrist, trying to pull one arm away from her mother’s throat and Karen was hitting his back with fists that could inflict no pain. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. My mother was always forcing me to do things like that.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m also pretty sure that a person who makes her mother cry like that doesn’t deserve a bed. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Clayton looked forward to “double shift” nights posted on the refrigerator door, held secure by one of his mother’s many angel magnets. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He tells me that my mother has come to visit a few times. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Fuming and uttering curses, my father grabbed my mother’s hand, and we left the tent; many people followed suit. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, Miss Murphy,” she says, “what would you like to know about your mother?” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I knew he could smell the food—my mother had been wafting scents toward the front door since she’d started cooking this morning. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

By the time we caught up with them, Johnny’s mother was in the process of cooking the pizzas—which lets you know where his mother was coming from. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, being soaped head to toe by her mother, Nel ventured an observation. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He thought upon what I had told him; and in return, he has told me this tale, a tale of the Venus of my mother’s people, their Aphrodite, the goddess Oshun. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

My mother, Denise, watched Newark burn, and it only strengthened her resolve to break free. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z