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“Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.”

Love Eye Heaven Steps Grace Romantic Dignity And Love Grandmother Gestures Romantic Love Her Eyes Headstone Mom And Daughter Dignity And Love

Book:Paradise lost

Source: Paradise lost

“If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.”

Ifs Motivation Sports Kissing Losing Teeth Ties Grandmother Softball Kissing You Inspirational Softball Softball Player

Author:George Brett

“We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.' What is that, grandmother?' To understand other people.' Yes, grandmother. I must be fair - for if I'm not fair to other people, I'm not worth being understood myself. I see.”

People Ifs Hard One Thing Understood Fairs Grandmother Anxious Not Fair

Book:George MacDonald: The Complete Fantasy Collection - 8 Novels & 30+ Short Stories and Fairy Tales (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith, Phantastes, The Princess and Curdie, At the Back of the North Wind, Portent, The Lost Princess, Adela Cathcart, Dealings with the Fairies and many more

Source: George MacDonald: The Complete Fantasy Collection - 8 Novels & 30+ Short Stories and Fairy Tales (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith, Phantastes, The Princess and Curdie, At the Back of the North Wind, Portent, The Lost Princess, Adela Cathcart, Dealings with the Fairies and many more

“All this to say: I am forty-three years old. I may yet live another forty. What do I do with those years? How do I fill them without Lexy? When I come to tell the story of my life, there will be a line, creased and blurred and soft with age, where she stops. If I win the lottery, if I father a child, if I lose the use of my legs, it will be after she has finished knowing me. "When I get to Heaven", my grandmother used to say, widowed at thirty-nine, "your grandfather won't even recognize me.”

Source: The Dogs of Babel

“Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.”

Source: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

“In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.”

World Father Energy Cases Fields Grandmother Organs Terminal Jenny

Book:The world according to Garp

Source: The world according to Garp

“I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things;that was why everything had to be perfect.”

Perfect Cold Grandmother My Grandmother

Book:Incantation

Source: Incantation

“I shall never have a bath again," I said. "Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said. "Once a month is quite enough for a sensible child." It was at times like these that I loved my grandmother more than ever.”

Children Said Enough Months Grandmother Sensible My Grandmother Baths Times Like These

Author:Roald Dahl

“What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.”

Mean Enough Artist Black Answers Blood Grandmother Black Women Great Grandmother

Book:Everyday Use

Source: Everyday Use

“This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven.”

Light Heaven Stars Sky Baby Ears Holes Grandmother Lap Grandma Whispering

Author:Rick Bragg

“If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.”

Ifs Needs Said Remember Names Letters Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“LINUS: Where are you going for Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown? CHARLIE: My father, my mother, Sally, and I are all going to my grandmothers for dinner. SALLY: Do you want to come too, Linus? We can hold hands under the table. LINUS: BLECH!”

Want Hands Mother Father Tables Dinner Brown Grandmother My Grandmother Charlie Holding Hands Thanksgiving Dinner

Author:Charles M. Schulz

“at last you, will say (maybe without speaking) (there are mountains inside your skull garden and chaos, ocean and hurricane; certain corners of rooms, portraits of great-grandmothers, curtains of a particular shade; your deserts; your private dinosaurs; the first woman) all i need to know: tell me everything just as it was from the beginning.”

Knows Needs Firsts Lasts Certain Rooms Particular Mountain Ocean Garden Chaos Corners Desert Grandmother Shade Portraits Curtains Hurricanes Skulls Dinosaurs Great Grandmother

Book:Selected Poems: 1965-1975

Source: Selected Poems: 1965-1975

“Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God." "That's what my grandmother used to say," said Brutha automatically. "Indeed? I would like to know more about this formidable lady." "She used to give me a thrashing every morning because I would certainly do something to deserve it during the day," said Brutha. "A most complete understanding of the nature of mankind.”

Knows Giving Said Sometimes Used Understanding Morning Mankind Crime Prove Deserve Give Me Punishment Grandmother Every Morning My Grandmother Foresight Formidable

Author:Terry Pratchett

“If she wasn't your grandmother I'd shoot her." Ranger”

Ifs Grandmother Rangers Your Grandmother

Author:Janet Evanovich

“She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable. The light that came through the picture window was daylight, real golden late-afternoon daylight, not a white mist light. The sky was a robin's-egg blue, and Coraline could see trees and, beyond the trees, green hills, which faded on the horizon into purples and grays. The sky had never seemed so sky, the world had never seemed so world ... Nothing, she thought, had ever been so interesting.”

Source: Coraline

“There's a saying I remember from my grandmother: One today is worth two tomorrows.”

Two Today Remember Tomorrow Grandmother My Grandmother

Book:Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

Source: Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

“He [Ranger] stopped in front of my parents' house, and we both looked to the door. My mother and my grandmother were standing there, watching us. "I'm not sure I feel comfortable about the way your grandma looks at me," Ranger said. [Stephanie] "She wants to see you naked." "I wish you hadn't told me that, babe." "Everyone I know wants to see you naked." "And you?" "Never crossed my mind." I held my breath when I said it, and I hoped God wouldn't stike me down dead for lying.”

Source: Hard Eight: A Stephanie Plum Novel

“In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and...mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.”

Knows Way Children Stills Book Mother Father Family Know How Mystery Advice Thousand Seven Experts Spite Grandmother Right Way Your Grandmother

Author:Bill Cosby

“When my grandmother was alive, she used to tell me that every time God creates a soul in heaven, he creates another to become its special mate. And that once we're born, we begin our search for our soul mate, the one person who's the perfect fit for our mind and body. They lucky oens find each other.”

Mind Persons Soul Body Used Heaven Born Perfect Alive Special Fit Lucky Grandmother Mates My Grandmother Mind And Body Soul Mate Perfect Fit

Author:Lurlene McDaniel

“I once sacrificed my life to keep my parents' promiise. This means nothing to you, because to you promises mean nothing... But later, she will forget her promise. She will forget she had a grandmother.”

Mean Parent Forget Promise Grandmother

Author:Amy Tan

“My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the now was too terrible.”

Past Terrible Happenings Moved Grandmother My Grandmother Overwhelmed

Author:Alice Hoffman

“Such was the love of this grandson for his grandmother that two years after the death of his mother, when she herself fell gravely ill, he vowed to her that someday he would try to tell the world her life story. 'But why?' she asked humbly. 'I'm no one, just a girl from the coast' 'But you are everyone, Grandma,' the young Pramoedya told her. 'You are all the people who have ever had to fight to make this life their own.”

People World Trying Years Two Stories Young Mother Girl Fighting Ill This Life Someday Grandmother Two Years Coast Grandma Life Story Grandson Just A Girl

Book:The girl from the coast: a novel

Source: The girl from the coast: a novel

“I have lunch, flirt with some local grandmothers, undercut my flirting by crotching myself on the corner of a table as I leave. -- "The Great Divider”

Tables Corners Locals Grandmother Lunch Flirting Undercut

Author:George Saunders

“They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much. The laws that make grandmothers grandmothers, uncles uncles, mothers mothers, cousins cousins, jam jam, and jelly jelly. It was a time when uncles became fathers, mothers lovers, and cousins died and had funerals. It was a time when the unthinkable became thinkable and the impossible really happened.”

Should Law Mother Father Impossible Happened Lovers Died Lays Broke Grandmother Territory Funeral Uncles Forbidden Cousin Jam Unthinkable Jelly Father Mother Thinkable

Author:Arundhati Roy

“It was the day my grandmother exploded.”

Grandmother My Grandmother

Book:The Crow Road

Source: The Crow Road

“A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.”

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Author:Erma Bombeck

“My grandmother stepped back into the kitchen to get their drinks. I had come to love her more after death than I ever had on Earth. I wish I could say that in that moment in the kitchen she decided to quit drinking, but I now saw that drinking was a part of what made her who she was. If the worst of what she left on Earth was a legacy of inebriated support, it was a good legacy in my book. ~Susie's grandmother, Lynn pgs 315-316”

Ifs Made Book Moments Earth Left Wish Support Saws Worst Drink Decided Drinking Quitting Legacy Kitchen Grandmother That Moment My Grandmother After Death Quit Drinking

Author:Alice Sebold

“Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages”

Feels Character Care Comfortable Pages Treated Grandmother Frightened Fragile My Grandmother Apparitions Literary Characters

Book:My invented country: a memoir

Source: My invented country: a memoir

“Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother”

Want Needs Wish What You Want Grandmother

Author:Ann Brashares

“If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a tight band, a throbbing vein, and a needle, tradition is a far homelier concoction: poppy seeds ground into tea; a sweet cocoa drink laced with cocaine; the kind of thing your grandmother might have made.”

People Ifs Kind Made Might Sweet Drink Band Tradition Seeds Tea Grandmother Veins Needles Cocaine Sinister Poppies Opiates Your Grandmother Cocoa

Book:White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

“Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.”

May Facts Animal Seeing Proud Hearing Grandmother Be Proud Shocked Accustomed Lively Your Grandmother

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Stirlings of old had been so damned besotted with their newfound earldom that they couldn't think to put any other name on anything...It was a wonder he didn't drink Kilmartin Tea and sit on a Kilmartin-style chair. In fact, he probably would be doing just that if his grandmother had found a way to manage it without actually taking the family into trade.”

Ifs Thinking Way Facts Would Be Found Names Wonder Style Drink Trade Manage Tea Chairs Grandmother

Author:Julia Quinn

“Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest again through my grandchildren's eyes. Mostly, it retaught me love.”

World Play Eye Alive Honest All Things Grandmother Grandchildren Grandma My Grandchildren

Book:Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France

Source: Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France

“so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail dresses she no longer intended to wear to cocktail parties. even in her rose garden she did not want to appear underdressed. if the dresses got too dirty from gardening, she threw them out. when my mother suggested to her that she might have them cleaned, my grandmother said, "what? and have those people at the cleaners what i was doing in a dress to make it that dirty?" from my grandmother i learned that logic is relative.”

People Ifs Want Said Might Mother Humanity Party Garden Logic Dresses Rose Dirty Grandmother Relative Gardening My Grandmother Cocktails Cleaners Cocktail Parties Rose Garden Cocktail Dresses

Author:John Irving

“And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses, because it was supposed to be what he wanted, what he had a right to, in order that he might exercise his lordly pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow.”

Long Made Might Wanted Mother Order Felt Pleasure Creation Exercise Snow Supposed To Be Purity Grandmother Conspiracy Oppressed Aunt Smashing

Book:Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)

“[in reference to turkey bowling] He [Tommy] squinted and picked his target, then took his steps and sent the bird sliding down the aisle. A collective gasp rose from the crew as the fourteen-pound, self-basting, fresh-frozen projectile of wholesome savory goodness plowed into the soap bottles like a freight train into a chorus line of drunken grandmothers.”

Self Lines Steps Goodness Bird Train Rose Collectives Grandmother Pounds Target Bottles Crew Frozen Turkeys Soap Fourteen Chorus Aisle Bowling Savory Projectile Chorus Line

Author:Christopher Moore

“My father is the harbinger of death and destruction. My grandmother the Great Destroyer. My mother is the goddess of the hunt. I think I’ll be okay. (Kat) Yeah, you do have the history of absolute terror and cruelty in your veins. (Sin) Remember that if you ever come between me and my chocolate bar. (Kat)”

Ifs Thinking Remember Mother Father Sin Destruction Okay Absolutes Yeah Terror Bars Cruelty Grandmother Chocolate Goddess My Grandmother Veins Hunts Destroyers Harbinger Chocolate Bars

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If you have love, even plain water is sweet.”

Ifs Love Mind Said Would Be Water Poor Sweet Daughter Grandmother My Grandmother

Book:Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Source: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

“There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and at the end of the tale, she will ask you this question: 'Ou libéré?' Are you free, my daughter?" My grandmother quickly pressed her fingers over my lips. Now," she said, "you will know how to answer.”

Ifs Knows Said Ends Stories Mother Night Asks Answers Know How Daughter Fingers Lips Tales Grandmother My Daughter My Grandmother

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“He says when your grandmother died your mother cried solidly for a week, solidly. She was crying with relief he says, it was like as if a door had been unlocked and she'd been let outside, she said to me I'm safe now. He waits, and he says this kid, when it's born, you mustn't ever let it think it's anything other than a gift and a blessing, do you hear me?”

Ifs Thinking Said Kids Mother Waiting Born Doors Week Cry Blessing Safe Died Relief Grandmother Cried Your Grandmother

Book:If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

Source: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

“The Challenge is to pry Bertie loose from Dain and his circle of oafish dengenerates,” Jessica said severely. “It would be far more profitable to pry Dain loose for yourself,” said her grandmother. “He is very wealthy, his lineage is excellent, he is young, strong, and healthy, and you feel a powerful attraction.” “He isn’t husband material.” “What I have described is perfect husband material.” said her grandmother. “I don’t want a husband.” “Jessica, no woman does who can regard men objectively. And you have always been magnificently objective.”

“My two grandmothers both died of cancer, so I understand how painful and difficult this disease is on the entire family. My first grandmother passed away from bone cancer when I was about 10. It was really horrible. I remember the whole process like it was yesterday.”

Firsts Two Whole Remember Process Difficult Disease Died Cancer Painful Bones Yesterday Horrible Grandmother Passed Away Bone Cancer

Author:Gisele Bundchen

“He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago and heard the wind and saw the empty trees. It had made him cry, without a reason. And a little of that sadness returned each year to him. It always went away with spring. But, it was a little different tonight. There was a feeling of autumn coming to last a million years. There would be no spring. ("The October Game")”

“I’ve never cheated on a lover. I’m faithful, always. But the war comes before anyone’s feelings. Every time.” Wow. Battle before love. Without a doubt, he was the most unromantic male she’d ever met. Even more so than her great-grandfather, who had laughingly burned her great-grandmother to death after she’d given birth to Gwen’s grandmother.”

War Feelings Given Doubt Birth Lovers Mets Battle Males Faithful Grandmother Wow Grandfather Burned Cheated Great Grandfather Great Grandmother Cheated On

Book:Lords of the Underworld Collection 2: The Darkest Whisper\The Darkest Passion\The Darkest Lie

Source: Lords of the Underworld Collection 2: The Darkest Whisper\The Darkest Passion\The Darkest Lie

“I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.”

Law Like You Grandmother Grandma

Book:The Jenna Fox Chronicles

Source: The Jenna Fox Chronicles

“You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.”

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“Believe me, lady, my strength is the one thing I never doubt. (Vane) It’s amazing the lies we tell other people, isn’t it? (Sunshine's grandmother)”

People Believe Lying Doubt One Thing Grandmother Sunshine Believe In Me

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“My grandmother is a little Cuban woman who cooks all day and speaks Spanish. Your grandmother watches pay-per-view porn." "She used to watch the Weather Channel, but she said there wasn't enough action." -Ranger and Stephanie”

Littles Said Enough Action Used Speak Views Pay Watches Weather Cooks Grandmother My Grandmother Cuban Rangers Your Grandmother

Book:To the Nines

Source: To the Nines

“Sophia and Grandmother sat down by the shore to discuss the matter further. It was a pretty day, and the sea was running a long, windless swell. It was on days just like this--dog days--that boats went sailing off all by themselves. Large, alien objects made their way in from sea, certain things sank and others rose, milk soured, and dragonflies danced in desperation. Lizards were not afraid. When the moon came up, red spiders mated on uninhabited skerries, where the rock became an unbroken carpet of tiny, ecstatic spiders.”