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“She is my companion on my many genealogical hunts, and I will be forever indebted to her for the knowledge that she bequeathed to…

— Rett MacPherson

“She had been born to cradle other people's children, wear their hand-me-down clothing, eat their leftovers, live on borrowed happiness and grief, grow old…

— Isabel Allende

“I think we should wean Grandma.”

— Renata Suerth

“She stands on the cliffs, near the old crumbling stone house. There's nothing left in the house but an upturned table, a ladle, and…

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

“The old woman nods and settles back in her chair. She seems to approve. Molly feels some of the tension leave her shoulders. “Excuse…

— Christina Baker Kline

“A couple of the old ladies sat down on the bench near the fountain and the bronze washerwoman. Others had ambled into the cemetery—to…

— Thomas Olde Heuvelt

“Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any awareness of…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“She rocks alone in her old rocking chair That little old lady with no-one to care She lives with the memory of a youth…

— Peppi Hilton

“This is the last time I would ever visit the cemetery or my wife's grave, but I didn't want to expend too much effort…

— John Scalzi

“And there was this sweet-looking little old lady with her white hair in a bun and everything, the typical grandmother type, and she was…

— Vivian Vande Velde

“Now where does he sit as he thinks of her? These years later. A stone of history skipping over the water, bouncing up so…

— Michael Ondaatje

“At fifty-one, why would she choose to dispose of her house, uproot herself, and come here to be a part of your work if…

— Dean Koontz