be a different kind of life. I named her for my Aunt…

I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was, I think, 15, 16.…

— Eric Dickerson

“You will not be able to shelter her forever,” my aunt insists. “What will happen when you are gone someday, and all the suitable…

— Laurie Forest

This kind of thing always amazed Ginny--people who just walked away from institutions. People who left school when they didn't see the point. Aunt…

— Maureen Johnson

My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table,…

— Dan Jenkins

Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got…

— Lee Friedlander

“I look like Barbara Bush in drag." Aunt Jettie”

— Molly Harper

In the summer of 1964, my sister and I went to South Ballston, Virginia, to stay with my aunt and her kids. They passed…

— Edward P. Jones

I'll just do a round around of the house and make sure the rest of the family are fast asleep. We don't want that…

— Kerstin Gier

“Aunt Helen Beck had many intentions about her death. She was about being dead the way some people are about being British - she…

— Elizabeth McCracken

My aunt and uncle are clearly civilians.

— Jimmy Kimmel

“Quin took on the air of someone who has just realized it's time for the yearly visit to the spinster great-aunt in a desperate…

— Amy Fecteau

I was painfully shy, so my aunt suggested to my mum that me and my brother go to Stage 84, a performing arts school…

— Christian Cooke

Your aunt and uncle will be proud, though, won't they?" said Hermione as they got off the train and joined the crowd thronging toward…

— Anonymous

“My aunt Carol hasn’t heard her say a word in the whole six years and three months of Grace’s life—not a single syllable. Carol…

— Lauren Oliver