“My mother use to tell me about the ocean.”
“My mother used to tell me that Heaven never seals off all exits.”
“(mother)" She used to tell me to get my nose out of my book and go get some fresh air.”
“You look like trouble. When I was growing up, my mother used to tell me to never trust a redhead.”
“My mother used to tell me when I went somewhere, "Please leave your foolishness at home." But how could I do that? It was stuck on me.”
“But they're too shy to speak when my mother-in-law doesn't; sometimes they open their mouths to begin, but they never get as far as the first sentence. You must get used to an ocean of silence, and just swim about in it as well as you can.”