A Quotes
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“Aunt Petunia burst into tears. Hestia Jones gave her an approving look that changed to outrage as Aunt Petunia ran forward and embraced Dudley rather than Harry. 'S-so sweet, Dudders...' she sobbed into his massive chest. 'S-such a lovely b-boy...s-saying thank you...' 'But he hadn't said thank you at all!' said Hestia indignantly. 'He only said he didn't think Harry was a waste of space!' 'Yeah, but coming from Dudley that's like "I love you.”
“Aunt Petunia often said that Dudley looked like a baby angel — Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
“Aunt Prue was holding one of the squirrels in her hand, while it sucked ferociously on the end of the dropper. 'And once a day, we have ta clean their little private parts with a Q-tip, so they'll learn ta clean themselves.' That was a visual I didn't need. 'How could you possibly know that?' 'We looked it up on the E-nternet.' Aunt Mercy smiled proudly. I couldn't imagine how my aunts knew anything about the Internet. The Sisters didn't even own a toaster oven. 'How did you get on the Internet?' 'Thelma took us ta the library and Miss Marian helped us. They have computers over there. Did you know that?”
Source: Beautiful Creatures
“Aunt Rachel says your name's Jeremy Atticus Finch.'
Jem scowled. 'I'm big enough to fit mine,' he said. 'Your names longer'n you are. Bet it's a foot longer.”
Source: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
“Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous growths—until the Germans put her to death, together with all the people she had worried about.”
“Aunt,” said Elizabeth, as Mrs. Gardiner buttoned up her gown. “May I ask you a question that may seem impertinent and shocking?”
“Of course you may. Those are my favourite kinds of questions,” said her aunt, smiling at her through the reflection in the mirror.”
Source: An Encounter at Pemberley: A Pride And Prejudice Variation
“AUNT SHADIE:
I see you - and don't worry, you're not white.
ROSE:
I'm pretty sure I'm white. I'm English.
AUNT SHADIE:
White is blindness - it has nothing to do with the colour of your skin.”
Source: The Unnatural and Accidental Women
“Aunt-Sister would’ve said, ‘Let her go, it’s past the time,’ but I wanted the pain of mauma’s face and hands more than the peace of being without them.”
Source: The Invention of Wings
“Aunt Sookie’s Malibu pad had always been magical. It was where they could be anyone or anything they wanted. ", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow”
Source: Loving Summer
“Aunt Sookie was right. This summer is going to be really different, a summer everyone will remember.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow”
Source: Loving Summer
“Aunt Syl must have conveniently stopped reading the childhood fairy tales when the knight left the damsel in distress to pursue a better damsel out of my bedtime routine.”
Source: Endless Magic
“Aunt Winifred says that our hymns, taken all together, contain the worst and the best pictures of heaven that we have in any branch of literature.”
Source: The Gates Ajar or Our Loved Ones in Heaven
“Aunt YA walked in, saw Kirabo, and wailed, 'Tom, you have not loved this child enough!’ and got down on her knees and keened. Uncle Ndiira disappeared. The women picked up Aunt YA’s lament like a tidal wave.”
Source: A Girl Is a Body of Water
“Auntie Anne's is a modern-day business miracle that never should have happened.”
“Auntie Elli, why are you open-mouth kissing Big Daddy Adler?"
*Well, shit*”
Source: Taking Shots
“Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate enough to die swiftly and suddenly, in full possession of our faculties and our fate, but more and more of us will be condemned to linger, at the mercy of anxious or indifferent relatives, careless strangers, unwanted medical interventions, increasing debility, incontinence, memory loss. We live too long, but, like the sibyl hanging in her basket in the cave at Cumae, we find it hard to die.”
Source: The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws
“Auntie's voice wraps me like a blanket. 'Please be careful. Not every Elder is a cultural teacher, and not all cultural teachers are Elders. It's okay to listen to what people say and only hold on to the parts that resonate with you. It's okay to leave the rest behind. Trust yourself to know the difference'.”
Source: Firekeeper’s Daughter
“Auntie Wu took special pride in two of her accomplishments--the sons she bore and the flowers she grew. They were equally useless, but the flowers smelled better.”
Source: The Fire Horse Girl
“Auntie Zee’s room was a wondrous kaleidoscope of color: scarfs and tapestries were draped over the walls, while mobiles made of prisms dangled from the ceiling. Gold, silver, and blue pillows were piled on the bed beneath a ruby-and-emerald-colored canopy. Multicolored rugs covered the honey-colored floor. Every surface was stacked with treasures: boxes carved from seashells; tiny sculptures of creatures that shouldn’t exist, like dragons and centaurs; little paintings that hung on the wall depicting worlds with impossibly high waterfalls, many moons, and castles. Coming inside, Calisa saw one etching of the labyrinth with its bone guards.
These were souvenirs of her travels. Or perhaps gifts from visiting travelers. She’d made her room a shrine to all the wonders that the nexus could bring. She loves this place.”
Source: The Faraway Inn
“Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry.”
“Aunts are to be a pattern and example to all aunts; to be a delight to boys (and girls) and a comfort to their parents; and to show that at least one daughter in every generation ought to remain unmarried, and raise the profession of auntship to a fine art.”
Source: Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project
“Aunts cook like
there's no tomorrow
& they're right.”
“Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies.”
“Aunty Azalea was always the eccentric one in a family not widely famed for an extravagant excess of marbles.”
Source: The Case of the Ghost of Christmas Morning
“Aunty used to say that whatever you skip learning is the one thing you’ll end up needing to know most later.”
Source: The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps
“Aura," he whispered, "I wish I could wipe away just one of your tears. Then I'd
feel like a person again. Like I'm something more than a bunch of light.”
Source: Shade
“Aura, I'm really patient, but I'm not a bloody saint.”
Source: Shade
“Aura of the mysterious is a minor perversion that a couple shares. A fetish that one of the two partners finds arousing, or a particular sexual scenario. Fantasies have to remain dirty. Cleanliness, scrupulousness and rationality are poison for eroticism.”
“Aura—the silent speech of presence.”
“Aure entuluva! day shall come again!”
Source: The Children of Húrin
“Aurel hoped that women writers would disobey the laws that bound men’s books. It was time for women to take language for themselves, Aurel said, even one word at a time, to take their own names and become. To become even one word.”
Source: After Sappho
“Aurelia frowned. "Are you saying that you hang around the women at court to gather intel?" "Oh, Your Grace, you are quick on the uptake," he said with an impressed look on his face. "It's not fair. Flaminius always gets the hot ones. Does he have to get the smart ones too?”
Source: Taming Flame
“Aurelia,
I don’t understand how things got so twisted between us. I messed up. I should have been honest with you about who I was, but I was always sincere. If you accept this, I will spend the rest of my life fixing what’s happened. I—
Whatever he’d originally written was scratched out beyond recognition.
I care about you. All I want is for you to be safe and happy. You can hate me for the rest of your life. You can scream at me until you lose your voice, but please let me help you. I will gladly spend the rest of my life protecting yours if you let me.
Forever yours,
Sandor”
Source: Stalks of Gold
“Aurelia, not all those women are uppity aristocratic bitches. Most of them are normal nice girls trying to survive in shark-infested waters, so if you want to make a difference, why not go in there and change the way things work?" "How?" Marcus smiled deviously. "By unseating the queen bee and changing the rules." "That sounds like a great idea, Colonel. Lead me to the beehive.”
Source: Taming Flame
“Aurelia was just about to take a sip of a mimosa when Mother Guardian snatched the flute away and promptly downed the drink in one gulp. Burping unashamedly, she said, "We can't have the validity of the marriage contracts jeopardized because the bride got rat-assed on her wedding day.”
Source: Taming Flame
“Aureliano not only understood by then, he also lived his brother’s experiences as something of his own, for on one occasion when the latter was explaining in great detail the mechanism of love, he interrupted him to ask: “What does it feel like?” José Arcadio gave an immediate reply: “It’s like an earthquake.”
“Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction.”
“Aurelio had de zwartste blik aan het hof doch zijn ziel was blank.”
Source: Soraia, kind van de zee (ZOMER)
“Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not”
Source: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: (Annotated)(Unabridged)
“Auri took it, and peered inside the small leather sack. “Why this is lovely, Kvothe. What lives in the salt?” Trace minerals, I thought. Chromium, bassal, malium, iodine . . . everything your body needs but probably can’t get from apples and bread and whatever you manage to scrounge up when I can’t find you. “The dreams of fish,” I said. “And sailor’s songs.”
“Auri," I asked slowly, "are you joking with me?" She looked up and grinned. "Yes I am," she said proudly. "Isn't it wonderful?”
“Aurinkoisina päivinä istun ulkona uurnasi päällä ja mietin miltä tämä kokeilu sinusta tuntuu. Kun tällä tavalla yritän arkipäiväistää asioita, kun tällä tavalla yritän tunnustella todellisuutta ja sitä että olet nyt harmaana läjänä tässä koivuisessa astiassa ahterini alla, ja minä syön puolukoita päälläsi.”
Source: Sata kirjettä kuolleelle äidille
“Aurora could not recall that she had been precisely heartbroken - her heart had never had time to get focused exactly - but for several years thereafter she did feel that life was a comedown in some respects.”
Source: Terms of Endearment
“Aurora hail, and all the thousand dies,
Which deck thy progress through the vaulted skies:
The morn awakes, and wide extends her rays,
On ev'ry leaf the gentle zephyr plays;
Harmonious lays the feather'd race resume,
Dart the bright eye, and shake the painted plume.”
Source: Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (EasyRead Comfort Edition)
“Aurora is right,” Willa said, sounding sad to be agreeing with her.”
Source: The Trylle Trilogy
“Aurora Legion squads will be known for their honor. Their willingness to hold the line. They will be champions of peace, of justice. And for generations, people in need will sigh in relief when they see our ships arrive.”
Source: Aurora's End
“Aurora lo miraba fijamente sin entender quien era ese hombre y porque intentaba deshacerse en halagos, pero al saber que la confundía con su gemela se decepcionó.
—¿Ari por qué me ves así? no puedo creer que me hayas olvidado —la sonrisa del chico comenzaba a desaparecer, estaba desconcertado por la frialdad de Aurora.
—Creo que me ha confundido, no soy Ariadna —dijo seriamente por fin la chica.
—¿Cómo?”
Source: Aurora: Arte, Pasión y Seducción (Arte, Pasión y Seducción (APS))
“Aurora looked upon a city divided by human perception.
A civil war was ongoing: between those for whom the real world had primacy and those who had chosen Truesight as their truth. To escape the existential horror of their impending finality, people had donned their orange-tinted Veravisum Virtual Visors and locked their fears behind a separate reality. A hyperreality found at odds with everyday life.
The result was a war of visions: between truth and falsehood, between regular people and the VVV’ed. Each party claimed to see reality for what it truly was and more often than not, both parties were right.”
Source: 5 Stars
“Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer
“Aurora Rose looked back and forth among the three women, gladly distracted from the sad events by the puzzle before her. The fairies in real life had their own personalities, of course, despite their superficial similarities as ageless, chatty, loving aunt figures. Flora tended to try to lead and make decisions for them. Merryweather seemed to understand the basic workings of the world better, although she rarely acted on this knowledge and instead chose to comment snarkily on it. Sometimes she got sneaky and went behind Flora's back. Fauna was the one who hugged the princess the most and often acted as an intermediary between the other two.
The green one, "Fauna," seemed more concerned with how Aurora Rose was feeling- how 'everyone' was feeling. She was the one who had been waiting outside the cottage for the prince and princess. Like she was the one who 'cared.'
And the blue one- "Merryweather"- seemed 'incredibly' quick-minded and brilliant. And even snarkier.
"Flora" was brave and powerful and ready to plunge into any physical combat. And not for nothing, she was built like a gladiator.
They were 'all' acting like extreme versions of their real selves.”
Source: Once Upon a Dream