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“Oscar: Let’s revisit the cuddling discussion. Kilian: Give us details, baby. Isobel: Why? She frowned down at the screen. Oscar: Not every day I get leverage over Kalen. Kilian: I just like details. I’m a detail-oriented guy.”

Book:Tourner

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“I heard the telephone tootling out in the hall and rose to attend it. “Bertram Wooster’s residence,” I said, having connected with the instrument. “Wooster in person at this end. Oh, hullo,” I added, for the voice that boomed over the wire was that of Mrs. Thomas Portalington Travers of Brinkley Court, Market Snodsbury, near Droitwich — or, putting it another way, my good and deserving Aunt Dahlia. “A very hearty pip-pip to you, old ancestor,” I said, well pleased, for she is a woman with whom it is always a privilege to chew the fat. “And a rousing toodle-oo to you, you young blot on the landscape,” she replied cordially.”

Aunt Jeeves Telephone Wooster

Book:How Right You Are, Jeeves

Source: How Right You Are, Jeeves

“You will come across people who always affirm by everything you say, but at the hour of need, they simply disappear! Stay away from such people or simply don't fall for their promises.”

Motivational Literature Fiction Advice Human Nature Agony Affirmation Aunt Suggestion When Strangers Meet

Author:K Hari Kumar

“From that point on, I would refer to him as "your uncle" and he would mostly refer to me as "your aunt" and it would take a longtime for our children to even understand that we were siblings first.”

Family Aunt Siblings Uncle

Book:Sour Heart

Source: Sour Heart

“In short, my aunt demanded that whoever came to see her must at one and the same time approve of her way of life, commiserate with her in her sufferings, and assure her of ultimate recovery.”

Guests Approval Aunt

Book:Swann’s Way

Source: Swann’s Way

“Good,' she said. Then she exhaled a long breath and leaned back in her seat. 'I can't believe I just talked to you like that. Ugh. I sounded like someone's mother.' She said "mother" like she was talking about cockroaches or snakes. 'It was pretty impressive,' I said. 'I never would have guessed you were an amateur.”

Aunt Mother Like

Book:And Then Everything Unraveled

Source: And Then Everything Unraveled

“My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight A’s when she was a teenager and she used to give me books to read. My father said that the books were a little too old for me, but I liked them so he just shrugged and let me read.”

Relationships Books Aunt

Book:The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Quick, nervy and jumpy -yet to the children she was as constant as a staff, a tree that can be counted on not to pull up its root and shift in the night. She was the tree that grew in the centre of their lives and in whose shade they lived.”

Aunt Center Care Taker

Book:Clear light of day

Source: Clear light of day

“She made another sweeping gesture that somehow went wrong because she knocked over the coffee pot and I immediately wrote down six new words which Auntie Mame said to scratch out and forget.”

Aunt Swearing

Author:Patrick Dennis

“I once made the mistake of uttering the phrase "kill two birds with one stone" in [Aunt Marti's] presence. She corrected me. The proper phrase is "liberate two birds with one gesture.”

Aunt Birds

Book:It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World's Family Tree

Source: It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World's Family Tree

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