He had turned that way when she'd tried to talk with him about her mother.

He met her gaze for the first time since they started talking about his mother.

Twice I tried to get him to talk about his mother.

He would have liked to continue talking about his mother.

But she found it easier to talk about her mother than herself.

But of course they were going to talk about his mother.

Beyond that, nobody talked about my mother or her side of the family.

They had spent so much time talking to him about his dead mother and father.

He's fine until we try to talk to him about his mother.

She had pretty much been talking about his mother, after all.