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The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that t

The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her. – Francis Thompson

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All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star. – Francis Thompson

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Grown don’t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What’s that suppose to mean? In my heart it don’t mean a thing. – Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987

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What are Raphael’s Madonnas but the shadow of a mother’s love, fixed in permanent outline forever? – Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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