“But really what it all came down to was that they wanted someone to listen. It was that simple; that was, at heart, what every single person walking across this green earth wanted.”
―
Meg Mitchell Moore,
The Admissions
“We've all got our own brand of crazy.” ― Meg Mitchell Moore
“...and she thought she understood, for the first time, the strange and terrible power a parent has over a child's happiness, and also how it worked in reverse.” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Arrivals
“In the moment, you were often too tired to enjoy watching your children turn into people.” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Arrivals: A Novel
“Because they’re my life’s work.” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Arrivals: A Novel
“If you have a young child, then you are fulfilling the work of God in that way.” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Arrivals: A Novel
“Look at your children. Of course you’re accomplishing something.” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Arrivals: A Novel
“It all changed, once you became a mother. The lengths you went to. That became more important than everything else.” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Arrivals: A Novel
“Was everything going to continue to come toward these kids earlier and earlier so that they emerged from the womb with their teeth wired, wearing glasses and helmets, scheduling math tutors?” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Admissions
“What had Lu's mother ever done to Lu, except for at one time know her so intimately that Lu couldn't bear to expose her to all of the humiliations involved in her growing up?” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Islanders
“It suddenly hits Maggie that there's only a certain amount of happiness in the universe, and if you take what you think is your fair share, somebody else might have to give up theirs” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Islanders
“a crapshoot, who gets in and who doesn’t, I should have been more aware of that. I mean, I was aware of it, but all along I thought, well, who wouldn’t want you? Right?” SMILE ALL DAY LONG, said those little Post-its, back when Angela had so much love to give she didn’t know what to do with it all. Back when it” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Admissions
“Purloined.” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Admissions
“This is what it meant to have children, this was coming for her one day, this was her future. You loved them and cared for them and they loved you back, conditionally, absolutely, so much love you thought you might drown in it, until the day they slammed the screen door and they got into someone else's truck and drove away” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Captain's Daughter
“Her grief was unbearable, a weight pressing down from high above and settling on her shoulders, in her gut, in her soul, but she knew she had to bear it, and so she knew that she would” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Captain's Daughter
“You never quite knew another’s story, did you, if you hadn’t walked by that person’s side their whole long lives.” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Admissions
“she understood, for the first time, the strange and terrible power a parent had over a child’s happiness, and also how it worked in reverse.” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Arrivals: A Novel
“Sometimes I feel like I'm hiding from the world, and I worry that when it's time to stop hiding, I won't know how to be a real person anymore” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Arrivals
“You’re grieving, but you’re living, and some days you’re doing more grieving than living and some days you’re doing more living than grieving. And you never know which kind of day it’s going to be until you open your eyes in the morning.” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, Two Truths and a Lie
“We've all got our own brand of crazy.” ― Meg Mitchell Moore
“...and she thought she understood, for the first time, the strange and terrible power a parent has over a child's happiness, and also how it worked in reverse.” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Arrivals
“In the moment, you were often too tired to enjoy watching your children turn into people.” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Arrivals: A Novel
“Because they’re my life’s work.” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Arrivals: A Novel
“If you have a young child, then you are fulfilling the work of God in that way.” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Arrivals: A Novel
“Look at your children. Of course you’re accomplishing something.” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Arrivals: A Novel
“It all changed, once you became a mother. The lengths you went to. That became more important than everything else.” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Arrivals: A Novel
“Was everything going to continue to come toward these kids earlier and earlier so that they emerged from the womb with their teeth wired, wearing glasses and helmets, scheduling math tutors?” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Admissions
“What had Lu's mother ever done to Lu, except for at one time know her so intimately that Lu couldn't bear to expose her to all of the humiliations involved in her growing up?” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Islanders
“It suddenly hits Maggie that there's only a certain amount of happiness in the universe, and if you take what you think is your fair share, somebody else might have to give up theirs” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Islanders
“a crapshoot, who gets in and who doesn’t, I should have been more aware of that. I mean, I was aware of it, but all along I thought, well, who wouldn’t want you? Right?” SMILE ALL DAY LONG, said those little Post-its, back when Angela had so much love to give she didn’t know what to do with it all. Back when it” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Admissions
“Purloined.” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Admissions
“This is what it meant to have children, this was coming for her one day, this was her future. You loved them and cared for them and they loved you back, conditionally, absolutely, so much love you thought you might drown in it, until the day they slammed the screen door and they got into someone else's truck and drove away” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Captain's Daughter
“Her grief was unbearable, a weight pressing down from high above and settling on her shoulders, in her gut, in her soul, but she knew she had to bear it, and so she knew that she would” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Captain's Daughter
“You never quite knew another’s story, did you, if you hadn’t walked by that person’s side their whole long lives.” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Admissions
“she understood, for the first time, the strange and terrible power a parent had over a child’s happiness, and also how it worked in reverse.” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Arrivals: A Novel
“Sometimes I feel like I'm hiding from the world, and I worry that when it's time to stop hiding, I won't know how to be a real person anymore” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Arrivals
“You’re grieving, but you’re living, and some days you’re doing more grieving than living and some days you’re doing more living than grieving. And you never know which kind of day it’s going to be until you open your eyes in the morning.” ― Meg Mitchell Moore, Two Truths and a Lie
