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“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.”

Book:Sour Heart

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“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

“There is much good we can do together and many more joys that exist tomorrow than do today.”

Joy Hope Future

Book:Audition for the Fox

Source: Audition for the Fox

“I shared my love of books with Benny, but Aunt Yolanda opened my eyes to the world of food as art, cooking without cans. She introduced me to the magic of spices, the exotic perfume of fresh herbs crushed between fingers. Younger than my mother, she was rounded in just the right spots, from her love of good food, and when we talked she looked right at me and listened, nodding and laughing loudly when I'd tell jokes, holding my hand when we'd walk, as if we were best friends or sisters. She liked Anne and Christine, too, but I could tell I was her favorite. She took me with her on shopping trips, to the fish market near the waterfront and the farm stands out west. Sometimes she'd journey to the Asian grocers in Northeast Portland or the hippie vegetarian markets on Hawthorne to find something special. We'd come home laden with ingredients that I knew my mother had never heard of, and the resulting feasts would fill me with a yearning to go to different places, to try new things.”

Aunt Bond Grocery Shopping Yolanda

Book:Eating Heaven

Source: Eating Heaven

“Soon they grew tall, soon they grew strong. They wrapped themselves around her, smothering her in leaves and flowers. She laughed at the profusion, the beauty of this little grove that was the whole forest to her, the whole world. If they choked her, if they sucked her dry of substance, she would give in without any sacrifice of will — it seemed in keeping with nature to do so. In the end they would swarm over her, reach up above her, tower into the sky, and she would be just the old log, the dried mass of roots on which they grew. She was the tree, she was the soil, she was the earth.”

Aunt Aunt Mira Mira Masi

Book:Clear light of day

Source: Clear light of day

“Let's go chase the moon, my darling Clementine." And we did. She didn't know where we were going, and I certainly didn't either. We never had a plan, my aunt and I, when we chased an adventure.”

Adventure Moon Aunt Chase Seven Year Slip

Book:The Seven Year Slip

Source: The Seven Year Slip

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