“Don't hold back. For anyone. The farther you go, the prouder I'll be.”— Julia Cho, Domee Shi, Sarah Streicher, Ming (voice), Sandra Oh, imdb.com
“I was still in college when Night Of The Living Dead came out, and when I went to see it the first time, I went in the afternoon. The place was full of kids, mostly from five to eleven. I have never in my life, from the time I was a kid until now, been in an audience where children were so quiet. Th…”— Stephen King, web.archive.org
“If internalizers were shamed for their sensitive emotions during childhood, as adults they may be embarrassed to show any deep emotion. They may say “I’m sorry” when they start crying in a therapist’s office, as though they should be able to talk about their emotional pain without showing it. Some e…”— Lindsay C. Gibson, amazon.com
“Paula: Where did you go last night? Chiron: Why? Paula: Well, I’m your mama, ain’t I?”— Barry Jenkins, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Paula, Naomie Harris, imdb.com
“You do not want the kid that has something nobody else has. To be the rare thing. Who's gonna care about the one?”— Breteni Morgan-Berg, imdb.com
“You have to dig through the soil and hit the gravel layers and then blast through the granite. None of these things are related to your child at all.”— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.com
“That's what being a mom is, never being sure you're doing the right thing, but doing it anyway.”— Michelle Dean, Dee Dee Blanchard, Patricia Arquette, imdb.com
“Sometimes we have to make them hate us.”— Michelle Dean, Dee Dee Blanchard, Patricia Arquette, imdb.com
“I put a roof over your head, money in your pocket, clothes on your back, food in your mouth!”— Bill Dubuque, Judge Joseph 'Joe' Palmer, Robert Duvall, imdb.com
“Our parents weren’t right about everything. They did their best with what they had available to them and now we can do the same. Think about how much information has changed!”— Emily Souder, scarymommy.com
“Drugs was easier. Ignoring you two boys in real life that was easier. But being scared for you that gave me something to ask God for and mean it.”— Ava DuVernay, Delores Wise, Niecy Nash, imdb.com
“You watch them grow. You start to think you did a good job. And then one night you look away.”— Julian Breece, Ava DuVernay, Sharon Salaam, Aunjanue Ellis, imdb.com
“You know who you are without me, I need to figure out who I am without you.”— Mark Andrus, Cindy Chupack, William Sutcliffe, Carol Walker, Angela Bassett, imdb.com
“I would have given anything for Priscilla to still be alive, even if it meant my dad didn’t call me as much anymore. That was the extent of how much I loved him.”— Glenna Gill, psiloveyou.xyz
“I spend a lot of time wondering how to be a good mother when there’s no textbook for scenarios like this. All I can do that’s tangible is write down how I feel.”— Eileen Lamb, refinery29.com
“That makes me happy because I didn’t ever have children, but I feel like I have a lot of daughters.”— Stevie Nicks, rollingstone.com
“They’re ripping on a Juul when you’re not looking, after you go to bed, and especially while sitting on the toilet.”— Tracy Moore, melmagazine.com