Books Quote by Lee Isaac Chung

I remember the words of my grandmother who died at 102. I remember my great mother, Grand Brika, who died at the age of…

— John Kani

When she died, Mom left me her letters and journals. Windows into things I would have been too young to understand when she was…

— John Dickerson

I didn't actually even really know my grandmother; I must have been 3 or 4 when she died.

— Leandra Medine

For years following the death of my mother, I wanted to write about her. I started writing what I thought of as personal essays…

— Tracy K. Smith

My grandfather died when I was 12, but I remember the sorrow of my mother. Even now, she's an old lady, but when she…

— Claire Denis

She lived in her past life- these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that was left her in the world.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Losing my grandmother was one of the hardest things I ever had to go through.

— Alex Borstein

She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones.

— Kim Edwards

She became a story, one I have mostly forgotten. One I can't end because she died a long time ago.

— Elizabeth Scott

My mother passed away young - she died from ovarian cancer at just 54 years old. Her sacrifices for my sisters and I evoke…

— Kevin de Leon

My grandmother was very important to me. She gave me my religious education. She gave me a sense of the female side of Judaism,…

— Marge Piercy

My grandmother was not a great storyteller.

— Andrew Sean Greer