I watch her do the simplest ...

I watch her do the simplest things: brushing her hair into a ponytail, feeding the dog, tying Sophie\'s shoelaces, and I want to tell her what she means to me, but I never actually say the words. After all, to acknowledge Delia as a drug, I\'d have to face the fact that one day I might have to go without her and this I can\'t do.
I watch her do the simplest things: brushing her hair into a ponytail, feeding the dog, tying Sophie's shoelaces, and I want to tell her what she means to me, but I never actually say the words. After all, to acknowledge Delia as a drug, I'd have to face the fact that one day I might have to go without her and this I can't do.
 Jodi Picoult

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My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.
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The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.
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I think this is every mother's worst nightmare - something dreadful happening to her child.
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That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one
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Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was... ...Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up. I sat between my mother and my father, watching strangers on TV carry in Shaker rockers and dusty paintings and ancient beer tankards and cranberry glass dishes; people and their hidden treasures, who had to be told by experts that they'd taken something incredibly precious for granted.
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