I was young and frightened and craved respect and its ugly…

Men don't rape women because their women are ugly," cousin Jostien said, but there was a protest at his words. "That's what my fa…

— Melina Marchetta

“Until this moment, the wooing of Lydia Trent had been little more than a game to him, but God help him he wanted her…

— Victoria Vane

The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.

— Sherman Alexie

I was fifteen, or sixteen. I was in high school. I was spending a summer in California with my second cousins. And I wanted…

— Steven Spielberg

Everybody I've ever met was destroyed by a member of the opposite sex early on and that damage you took into every relationship after…

— Christopher Titus

My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter…

— Rick Riordan

“I know you’re cousins but you’re like fourth cousins.  It’s not necessarily too icky.” ”

— R.E. Butler

As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close…

— Rand Paul

“The platonic love I feel for my cousin, made me write this diary ...” Leione”

— Pet Torres

If astronomy teaches anything, it teaches that man is but a detail in the evolution of the universe, and the resemblant though diverse details…

— Percival Lowell

I ought to tell you I'm probably your cousin.

— Henry James

Going where no man has gone before is more difficult than it sounds. Our cousins and ancestors were no less curious than we are,…

— N.D. Wilson

Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in the collective…

— Debra Monroe

I love a lot of things, a whole lot of things / Like / My cousin comes to visit and you know he's from…

— Eloise Greenfield

“Cousins are like celebrities for little kids.”

— Jim Gaffigan