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Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a

Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.

Jodi Picoult
Children, Pregnancy, Motherhood
Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

Jodi Picoult
Rip, Believe, Motherhood
Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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