Why are you in such a rush?" Sophia asked, and her…

I asked my grandmother how a Hungarian Jewish person can experience being Jewish. My grandmother answered was the only choice was to "keep quiet."…

— Csanad Szegedi

“Is it true you were born in the eighteen-hundreds?" Sophia yelled through the window. "What of it?" Grandmother answered, very distinctly. "What do you…

— Tove Jansson

“Who's he going to outwit?" Sophia asked. "Relatives." Grandmother said. "Nasty relatives. They tell him what to do without asking him what he wants,…

— Tove Jansson

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…

— Gena Showalter

I was maybe 5 or 6, and my grandmother would begin sitting me in the Quaker meeting house. I asked my grandmother, 'What am…

— James Turrell

“Sophia sat in meditation on the riverbank when a student bent down to place two enormous pearls at her feet as a gift. She…

— David W. Jones

“Sophia was asked to speak to the students of a local medical school. “Sophia, what do we need to be better doctors?” the students…

— David W. Jones

“I said, "Isn't lying a sin?" "Yes," [Grandmother] answered soberly. "But that wasn't a lie. That was camouflage.”

— Frederic S. Durbin

“May I be excused, or would you like my assistance toweling off?" Ethan asked. "My grandmother is expecting me, and she hates when I'm…

— Barbra Annino

When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself:…

— Jung Chang

It's funny about love', Sophia said. 'The more you love someone, the less he likes you back.' 'That's very true,' Grandmother observed. 'And so…

— Tove Jansson

“Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the same dramatic…

— Tove Jansson

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…

— Tove Jansson

“Sophia," she said, "this is really not something to argue about. You can see for yourself that life is hard enough without being punished…

— Tove Jansson

“Did he kill Grandmother?” I whispered. “Don’t be ridiculous,” Erra’s voice said in my ear. “She is already dead. Besides, your grandmother was the…

— Ilona Andrews