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“Darling Daddy, This is Rose. So flames went all up the kitchen wall. Saffron called the fire brigade and the police came too to see if it was a trick and the police woman said to Saffron Here You Are Again because of when I got lost having my glasses checked. But I was with Tom whose grandmother is a witch on top of the highest place in town. Love, Rose.”

Ifs Said Lost Fire Wall Highest Towns Police Rose Glasses Tricks Flames Kitchen Grandmother Witch Toms Daddy Darling Saffron

Author:Hilary McKay

“Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The truth is, after Hazel dies (assuming she dies), her mom will still be her mom, just as my grandmother is still my grandmother even though she has died. As long as either person is still alive, that relationship survives. (It changes, but it survives.)”

Persons Long Said Stills Real Mother Dies Realizing Alive Mom Truth Is Died Assuming Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:John Green

“You ought to be ashamed of yourself, running around, not married, staying out all night. Ashamed!" "Ashamed!" my grandmother echoed. Good to know they still agreed on things after forty-three years of marriage.”

Knows Years Stills Running Night Three Ought Married Ashamed Staying Grandmother Forty Three Years My Grandmother All Night Years Of Marriage

Book:Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel

Source: Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel

“People say that when a baby is crying the paternal grandmother will say, "The baby is crying, you should feed her," and the maternal grandmother will say, "Why is that baby crying so much, making her mom so tired?”

People Should Cry Baby Mom Tired Grandmother

Author:Shin Kyung-sook

“I suppose if you were inclined to misbehave, you wouldn't exactly tell me the truth anyway." "Darling, you have a brother fond of holding a gun on me, a sister who can shoot anything that moves, two other brothers who've repeatedly threatened to thrash me, and a grandmother who buys off constables. Do you really think I'm fool enough to antagonize them by committing adultery?" It was hard not to smile at that. "An excellent point." "I think so.”

Ifs Thinking Two Hard Enough Moving Brother Fool Gun Excellent Grandmother Threatened Adultery Darling Tell Me The Truth Committing Adultery

Book:How to Woo a Reluctant Lady

Source: How to Woo a Reluctant Lady

“To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.”

Thinking Son Grandmother My Grandmother Womb Tempest Gonzalo From Tempest

Book:The Tempest

Source: The Tempest

“Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand different ways. A book, a poem, a song, a bedtime story, a grandmother's suicide, the choreography of a dance, a few frames of film, a diagnosis of schizophrenia, a deadly tumble from a horse, a faded photograph, or a story you tell your daughter.”

“Jazz spent a chunk of the day fantasizing about ways to kill his grandmother, plotting them and planning them in the most excruciating, gruesome detail his imagination would allow. It turned out his imagination allowed quite a bit. He spent the rest of the day convincing himself--over and over--not to do it.”

Way Bits Imagination Jazz Details Planning Grandmother Convincing Chunks

Author:Barry Lyga

“I am slowly, painfully discovering that my refuge is not found in my mother, my grandmother, of even the birds of Bear River. My refuge exists in my capacity to love. If I can learn to love death then I can begin to find refuge in change.”

Ifs I Can Mother Found Bears Bird Capacity Rivers Grandmother Discovering Refuge My Grandmother Capacity To Love Love Death

Book:Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Source: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

“Would Grandmother scold him? Would she say, “Frank! Thank the gods, you've come. I'm surrounded by monsters.” More likely she'd scold him, or mistake them for intruders and chase them off with a frying pan.”

Mistake Monsters Grandmother Frank Percy Jackson And The Olympians Frying Intruders Frank Zhang Frying Pans

Author:Rick Riordan

“Before we left, Grandmother talked a lot about the arctic night we would fly through. 'Isn't it a mystical word, "arctic"? Pure and quite hard. And meridians. Isn't that pretty? We're going to fly along them, faster than the light can follow us... Time won't be able to catch us.”

Hard Light Able Night Left Pure Faster Grandmother Mystical Arctic

Author:Tove Jansson

“My grandmother thinks it's really funny to put all sorts of things in our - my lunch. I never know what'll be inside: e.e. cummings, flower petals, a handful of buttons. She seems to have lost sight of the original purpose of the brown bag." - Lennie "Or maybe she thinks other forms of nourishment are more important." - Joe”

Thinking Knows Important Seems Form Purpose Lost Flower Sight Originals Brown Bags Grandmother Lunch Buttons My Grandmother Handful Nourishment Petals Lennie

Book:The Sky Is Everywhere

Source: The Sky Is Everywhere

“If you know somebody very well, like your grandmother or your baby sister, you will know when they are real and when they are fake.”

Ifs Knows Wells Real Baby Fake Grandmother Your Grandmother Baby Sister

Author:Daniel Handler

“Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma's favorite.”

Knows Bird Red Grandmother My Grandmother Grandma Cardinals Regal

Author:Kris Carr

“You’re going to be my grandmother.” “You silly child. In my heart, I’ve been your grandmother for years. I’ve just been waiting for you to make it official.”

Years Heart Children Waiting My Heart Silly Officials Grandmother My Grandmother Waiting For You Your Grandmother

Author:Julia Quinn

“We need a barn or one of those storage areas for the Broken vehicles." "A garage?" He gave her a short nod. "A private, relatively remote location, with thick walls to dampen the sound and preferably a sturdy door I could bolt from the inside, keeping your grandmother, your brothers, and all other painfully annoying spectators out..." Rose began to laugh. A make-out bunker... "I'm glad you find our dilemma hilarious.”

“That's because we keep weapons int the attic, silly boy. Do you think this is the first time monsters have attacked our family?" "Weapons," Frank grumbled. "Right. I've never handled weapons before." Grandmother's nostrils flared. "Was that sarcasm, Fai Zhang?" "Yes, Grandmother." "Good. There may be hope for you yet.”

Thinking Firsts May Boys Weapons First Time Monsters Silly Our Family Grandmother Sarcasm Frank Attics Silly Boy

Author:Rick Riordan

“Avoid stock expressions (like the plague, as William Safire used to say) and repetitions. Don't say that as a boy your grandmother used to read to you, unless at that stage of her life she really was a boy, in which case you have probably thrown away a better intro. If something is worth hearing or listening to, it's very probably worth reading. So, this above all: Find your own voice.”

Ifs Used Reading Voice Boys Cases Stage Expression Listening Hearing Thrown Grandmother Repetition Plague Worth Reading Your Grandmother

Book:Mortality

Source: Mortality

“My grandmother told me once that when you lose somebody you think you've lost the whole world as well, but that's not the way things turn out in the end. Eventually, you pick yourself up and look out the window, and once you do you see everything that was there before the world ended is out there still. There are the same apple trees and the same songbirds, and over our heads, the very same sky that shines like heaven, so far above us we can never hope to reach such heights.”

“I’m supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty,” I told her. Without a moment’s hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: “It depends on if you’re drinking or pouring.”

Ifs Said Moments Half Figures Depends Empty Drinking Glasses Grandmother Splits My Grandmother Pouring Hesitation Half Full Half Empty

Author:Bill Cosby

“But her grandmother had never suggested she could think the same of Scarlet. You'll be fine, she always said, after a skinned knee, after a broken arm, after her first youthfull heartbreak. You'll be fine, because you're strong, like me.”

Thinking Firsts Said Strong Broken Arms Fine Like Me Knees Grandmother Scarlet Skinned Knees

Author:Marissa Meyer

“It reminds me of how grandmother always had the right costume for me to wear. You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be.”

Feels Persons Grandmother Pretending Costumes

Author:John Boyne

“Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the ever finish. I suppose I thought if my grandmother kept up her interests, she wouldn't die; she'd have to stay around to finish the books she was so fond of. "I've got to get to the bottom of this one," she'd say, as if a book were no different from a pond or a lake. I thought she'd go on reading forever but it didn't work out that way.”

Ifs Way Book Different Dies Reading House Interest Forever Goes On Bed Bottom Work Out Stuck Kitchen Lakes Grandmother My Grandmother Couches Pillow Ponds

Author:Alice Hoffman

“Demonstrate talent, said Grandmother often to me, and you will still be loved by a husband when beauty has faded.”

Said Stills Talent Husband Grandmother Faded

Book:Keturah and Lord Death

Source: Keturah and Lord Death

“My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course.”

Together Used Order Courses Asks Father Break Bread Grandmother My Grandmother Riddle

Book:The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“Is he Catholic?" her grandmother asked on the way out. He's a drug dealer -- so if he is religious, he's got incredible powers of reconciliation. "He looks like a good boy," her vovo said over her shoulder. "A good Catholic boy." And that was that -- for now.”

Ifs Way Looks Said Religious Boys Drug Catholic Incredibles Shoulders Grandmother Reconciliation Dealer Drug Dealers Good Boy

Author:J.R. Ward

“I never said I do not remember, my grandmother corrects. I said I prefer to forget.”

Said Remember Forget Grandmother My Grandmother

Book:The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“I’m not trying to—What do teenagers say nowadays?” he asked my grandmother.“Get all up in her biznez,” Nana said.Without cracking a smile.“That’s right,” he replied. “We’re not trying to get all up in your biznez, Ali.”

Trying Said Teenager Grandmother My Grandmother

Book:The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts

Source: The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts

“I told my kids I just want three words on my tombstone, if I have one. I'll probably be cremated. One is "woman." I'm very comfortable in that role. I've loved being a woman, I've loved being a mother, I've loved being a grandmother. I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.”

Ifs Want Kids Mother Three Roles Comfortable Atheist Grandmother Anarchist Being A Woman Being A Mother Tombstone Three Words Being A Grandmother

Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“I pointed to the wound. "It's missing," I said. My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the scar, and to recognize her again. "Yes," she said. "But see how much of me is left?”

Said Left Seeing Missing Wounds Grandmother Scar My Grandmother

Book:The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“Blaire, This was my grandmother’s. My father’s mother. She came to visit me before she passed away. I have fond memories of her visits and when she passed on she left this ring to me. In her will I was told to give it to the woman who completes me. She said it was given to her by my grandfather who passed away when my dad was just a baby but that she’d never loved another the way she’d loved him. He was her heart. You are mine. This is your something old. I love you, Rush”

Way Giving Heart Said Mother Father Left Given Memories Love You Mines Baby Dad My Dad Rings Grandmother Grandfather My Grandmother My Grandfather Passed Away Fond Memories

Author:Abbi Glines

“I can't promise we'll ever use you for a hasty getaway," Cole said, "but with a little work, you might be able to race my grandmother-while she's on her scooter.”

Littles Said I Can Use Might Able Race Promise Grandmother My Grandmother Hasty Getaways Scooters

Book:The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts

Source: The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts

“If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one." It was fairly safe to assume that that was the first time anyone had ever spoken to W. W. Hale the Fifth in that manner. Kat was also fairly certain it wouldn't be the last. "I might lose my grandmother's company." Kat gave a smile and held Hale tight. "You won't lose me.”

Ifs Want Firsts Might Lasts Certain Loses Company Safe First Time Victim Assuming Grandmother My Grandmother Fifth Hale

Author:Ally Carter

“I always make sure there’s an opening in my room - an inch at the door, or maybe even at the window. My grandmother taught me that if one dies during sleep, the soul needs an exit, or it will be forever trapped in the room.”

Ifs Needs Soul Dies Sleep Rooms Forever Doors Taught Window Opening Grandmother Inches Trapped My Grandmother Exit

Author:Tablo

“Flustered, she replied, "You're not my - my - grandmother, or something." "You'd talk about this with your grandmother? I can't possibly imagine discussing my dating life with mine. She's a lovely woman, I suppose. If you like them bald and racist.”

Ifs I Can Imagine Mines Dating Lovely Grandmother Racist My Grandmother Discussing Gansey Your Grandmother Lovely Woman

Book:The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)

Source: The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)

“There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.”

World Two Political Used Culture Politics Diversity Social Justice Grandmother

Book:Don Quixote

Source: Don Quixote

“What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children.”

“What does cookery mean? It means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe, and of Calypso, and Sheba. It means knowledge of all herbs, and fruits, and balms and spices... It means the economy of your great-grandmother and the science of modern chemistry, and French art, and Arabian hospitality. It means, in fine, that you are to see imperatively that everyone has something nice to eat.”

Mean Doe Art Knowledge Economy Nice Modern Food Fine Cooking Fruit Grandmother Culinary Chemistry Hospitality Spices Herbs Cookery Arabian Great Grandmother Calypso Medea

Author:John Ruskin

“Don't eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn't recognize as food.. stay away from these”

Health Health Care Wellness Great Men Grandmother Ancestor Nutrition Items Supermarkets Natural Health Great Grandmother Health And Nutrition Health Nutrition Healthy Nutrition

Author:Michael Pollan

“My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.”

Wanted School Learning Grandmother Far Away My Grandmother Good Education

Author:Margaret Mead

“The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey's mind. Bailey was the son she liver with, her only boy.”

Want Mind Wanted Change Chance Boys Son Connections East Grandmother Florida Liver Tennessee Seizing East Tennessee

Book:A Good Man is Hard to Find

Source: A Good Man is Hard to Find

“A grandmother's special calling is to pray and to be a fellow worker in the battle in which her children or her grandchildren are engaged.”

Children Age Special Praying Calling Battle Fellows Aging Workers Engaged Grandmother Grandchildren Fellow Workers

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.”

People Wells Age Young Mother Father Son Daughter Aging Hardest Grandmother Grandfather Son And Daughter

Author:Simeon Strunsky

“And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying for all the spending, including military spending, that has gone on and the tax cuts that have come through.”

Facts Worry Gone Cutting Military Taxes Including Spending Grandmother Grandchildren Tax Cuts My Grandchildren Military Spending

Author:Geraldine Ferraro

“Sadly, some folks want others to feel their pain, to hurt as much as they do-or more. My grandmother once told me to avoid colds and angry people whenever I could. It's sound advice.”

People Want Feels Pain Sound Hurt Advice Anger Angry Folks Grandmother My Grandmother Grandma Sound Advice

Author:Walter Inglis Anderson

“Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.”

People Mother Food Admire Grandmother Chef Mother And Grandmother

Author:Yotam Ottolenghi

“No matter what you do, your grandmother thinks it's wonderful.”

Thinking Matter Age Wonderful No Matter What Aging Grandmother Your Grandmother

Author:Judith Ellen Levy

“At times I think the truest image of God today is a black inner-city grandmother in the United States or a mother of the disappeared in Argentina or the women who wake up early to make tortillas in refugee camps. They all weep for their children, and in their compassionate tears arises the political action that changes the world. The mothers show us that it is the experience of touching the pain of others that is the key to change.”

“My grandmother lived in a universe filled with life. It was impossible for her to conceive of any creature - even the smallest insect, let alone a human being - as insignificant. In every leaf, flower, animal, and star she saw an expression of a compassionate universe, whose laws were not competition and survival of the fittest but cooperation, artistry and thrift. . . .”

“Curling is not a sport. I called my grandmother and told her she could win a gold medal because they have dusting in the Olympics now.”

Winning Sports Gold Athlete Grandmother Olympics My Grandmother Medal Gold Medals Olympic Athlete Olympic Medals Winter Olympics

Author:Charles Barkley

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