David Levithan Quotes

Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

She was like a mother to me...and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her.

I loved my mother, but I don't like her.

I love my mother. I reach out to my mother.

I like that there's no love as fierce as the love you feel for your family; that there's no one you feel more protective of than the very same people who can drive you crazy.

I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all.

Inside the family, you can go from hate to passivity to extreme love within the same hour.

For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.

I love my parents. I did love them. It's complicated.

My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.

I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.

Conversations with sisters can spark extremes of anger or extremes of love. Everything said between sisters carries meaning not only from what was just said but from all the conversations that came before - and 'before' can span a lifetime. The layers of meaning combine profound connection with equally profound competition.

You can love and hate your family with equal measure, but the power of the bond you have to have with them, you can't really ever walk away.

You only get one mom.

But everything changed when I saw my son for the first time and today, I love my son, who is 18 months, the most in the world.

I have such an amazing relationship with my mom, and I think, 'Wow, I'm going to have that with my daughter.'

I think about my mom every day.

Of course we had our arguments; we had everything, but at the end of the day, that was still my mother, my confidante - my everything.

How could I not talk about her? It's impossible not to mention my mum. She is, has been and will always be amazing - everything that she's done for me and that she still does. We are very close.

My mum raised me - love her to pieces.

Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.

…for no matter how lost and soiled and worn-out wandering sons may be, mothers can forgive and forget every thing as they fold them into their fostering arms. Happy the son whose faith in his mother remains unchanged, and who, through all his wanderings, has kept some filial token to repay her brave and tender love.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.