This is getting ugly.” – Abigail “Like my great-aunt’s underpants.” – Sundown — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“If you please, Great-Aunt Nancy," said Emily deliberately, "I don't like to be told I look like other people. I look just… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or… — Wendi Deng Murdoch Copy Share Image
I basically don't do that well with children, although my sister says I'm a great aunt, — Ann B. Davis Copy Share Image
My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Beside me, Adrian’s own smile vanished, and he went perfectly still. Tatiana, the former Moroi queen, had been Christian’s great-aunt.” — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“recalling our life in the old days at Combray with my great-aunt, at Balbec, Paris, Doncières, Venice, and the rest;” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I definitely don't want to have kids ... I don't think I'd be a great mother. I'm a great aunt or friend… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family full of strong women. A great aunt on my mother's side had been a matron on… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
“Quin took on the air of someone who has just realized it's time for the yearly visit to the spinster great-aunt in… — Amy Fecteau Copy Share Image
I call on those that call me son, Grandson, or great-grandson, On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts, To judge what I have… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
My dad was a keen actor when he was young; my auntie is heavily involved in amateur dramatics back in Northern Ireland,… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
“Poor thing. If she wasn’t being thrown into trees or attacked by his kin, she was being mystically flung to the ground… — G.A. Aiken Copy Share Image
I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was, I think,… — Eric Dickerson Copy Share Image
I got into cooking just by watching my mom and my aunts and my great-aunts and actually one of my cousins who… — Kelly Rowland Copy Share Image
My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went up to Liverpool and… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
“Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt kept an evening school in the village; that is to say, she was a ridiculous old woman of limited… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
No, what Great Aunt Winifred was suffering from was the persecution every happily single woman suffers: the predictable social condemnation of her… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
You'd think that would have been forgotten long ago. But no, no sooner has a little grass grown over it than some… — Kerstin Gier Copy Share Image
Your Great-Aunt Muriel doesn't agree, I just met her upstairs while she was giving Fleur the tiara. "She said 'Oh dear, is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There you are at last, girl,” said Great Aunt Sullana. “Your hair looks as though beavers had abandoned a dam there. Your… — Tara Maya Copy Share Image
“He bowed politely to Hortense, who tipped her head toward the elderly gray-haired lady beside her, who seemed to be dozing, her… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
If the Word truly became flesh, then God had not only a mother, but also a grandmother, cousins, great-aunts, and weird uncles.… — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
“seemed to her that such a one abdicated all claim to enjoy the fruits of those friendly relations with people of good… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Imagine that you wanted your children to learn the names of all their cousins, aunts and uncles. But you never actually let… — Brian X. Foley Copy Share Image
With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
From age 23 to 44 - I'm 45 now - I was always in need of money, and I was especially in… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
Why is it so much easier to talk to a stranger? why do we feel we need to disconnect in order to… — David Levithan Copy Share Image