“With her mother, Leeda acted a lot.”

“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”

“Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.”

“My mothering needed a tad more Mother Theresa and a lot less Lizzy Borden.”

“How many times could a mother's heart break? An infinite number of times. Each time her children were hurt. She'd long ago accepted the pain of it, as well as the stoicism to never let it show. It was a mother's lot in life.”

“A lot of really big trees had died to make that desk. His mother had probably gnawed them down, used her nails to saw the boards, and finished the decorative cutwork with her tongue.”