Yalad Maternity Quotes & Sayings

It was the farm they'd bought down at the edge of the Cape ... The very edge of the world, ... It was the light that Emma remembered as so very different from city light, thin and yellow, with flecks of gold as the afternoon stretched on. Apricot light, her mother used to call it. Peach light. Summertime light that made a person forget gray skies and city life. The air was sweeter there, the cardinals were a deeper scarlet than their city cousins, and when the crickets called, it was possible to feel the vibration of their song. Each time they opened the car doors and crossed the grass, it was as though they had stepped off the globe, as though the world had stopped turning, as though they might, for a little while at least, be safe. — Alice Hoffman

I rummaged through the drawers in search of a strong poison. I thought of nothing as I looked; I had to get it over with as quickly as possible. It was as if it were an everyday task I needed to do.
All I could find were things of no use to me: buttons, string, thread of various colors, notebooks - all strongly redolent of naphthalene and none capable of causing a man's death. Buttons, thread, and string - that is what the world contained at this most tragic of moments. — Max Blecher

For someone who'd spent most of his adult life fearful of getting girls pregnant, I thought my unexpected paternal trial was turning out reasonably well. — Richelle Mead

Prayer ... panacea for some, placebo to others. I thought of it as an epidural administered through the soul to anesthetize the mind. — Clyde DeSouza

I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step. — Sandra Steingraber

Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor individual; but it is of scarcely less importance to the rest of us and to all of our children who must pay in one way or another for these biological and racial mistakes. — Margaret Sanger

A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen. — Mahatma Gandhi

You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock ... ' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness ... and laugh at persons who give in to them. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Believe is possibilities. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Divorce is one of the most stressful life events anyone goes through. — Emily Doskow

Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth. — Thomas Jefferson

What? It's not my fault I stab all the fanged people. They shouldn't look like Daimons. (Tabitha)
I didn't look like a Daimon, but you stabbed me. (Valerius)
Yeah, well, you looked like a lawyer so I had to kill you. It was a moral imperative. (Tabitha) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderfully troubling than we could have imagined being able to tolerate when we were young. — James Hollis

For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature? — Marcus Aurelius

Unhappily, my wife is expecting me in connection with a fish — Bertolt Brecht