“Should I apologize to my mother or the world for not listening to her when I was younger?”

“I thought of my mother late that night, after leaving Dorothy, as I followed the moon's path back home across the Moose River. My mother, maybe she was in that moon's light. I didn't know any more, but when I was younger, Iuse to imagine that she was. I'd talk to the moon some nights, and I knew my mother listened. I haven't done that in a long time, me." -Through Black Spruce, Joseph Boyden, ch 13, pg 119”

“I didn't listen to her because she was my mother & wouldn't know anything until I was much older.”

“From Charades: when she was younger she was a frustrated mother, so she is pleased when her children act as is they don't remember”

“I have in my mind’s eye an image of what a perfect mother and wife should be; and in her whom I must call “Mother” I find no trace of that image.”

“...my mother took a younger man as a lover. They spent all day in her boudoir, festering in each other's company.”