Old lady Quote by Lucy Snyder

“...Mabel put on the boiled potatos, unmashed, the stewed tomatos, some inferior dried beef, and some bread that plainly said, 'Darling, I am growing…

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

“Then he returned to Mabel and put his mouth to her ear. I'd never let anything happen to you. You know that, don't you?”

— Eowyn Ivey

“You are remarkably modern, Mabel. A little too modern, perhaps. Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern. One is apt to grow old-fashioned…

— Oscar Wilde

“People are…” Mabel wheezed. “Mostly good, you…” Wheeze. “Know? Mostly.” She tried to take a breath. It was hard. Like breathing through layers of…

— Libba Bray

“Your mother mentioned she had a little girl. These are for you, sweetheart. Just a little something, heh heh." He handed me a wrinkled…

— Wally Lamb

“She told me, years later, that it was the lack of adult interaction that was really driving her nuts. All those hours with nursery…

— Catherine McKenzie

“Maud: Young women are never happy. Betty: Mother, what a thing to say. Maud: Then when they're older they look back and see that…

— Caryl Churchill

“Mama Ginger came calling, to set the alarm on my biological clock. Oh, and to remind me that there’s no point to me being…

— Molly Harper

“All these stupid old people. Had every last one of them met, heard of, gossiped about, or smelled her mom in the distance? Way…

— Thea Harrison

“This was another pretend, and here in a yard on a bench was his real wife, with sad, kind, tired eyes. The lesson of…

— Joshilyn Jackson

“I throw my head back and laugh long and hard. Then I lean in and whisper in her ear, "You don't know who you're…

— Victoria Scott

“story she used to tell me when I was a child, just a made-up story. Lately,”

— Karen McQuestion