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“My father would never object. He might make a face at first, then take it back.”

— André Aciman

“The corners of her mouth turned up in a wry smile. “Better and better. Your grandmother’s looks and your grandfather’s brains. A deadly combination,…

— Angela Misri

“My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories.”

— Myron Uhlberg

“In the old man's face there was nothing very special - save that the chin was so greatly projected that whenever he spoke he…

— Nikolai Gogol

“Many years ago now, when I was a little boy, my grandfather he say to me this story.”

— O. Penn-Coughin

“My memories are like coins in the devil's purse: when you open it you find only dead leaves.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“He had one of those faces where you were aware of the bones beneath the skin, as if even his bare skull would be…

— David Nicholls

“I looked at the faces around me and I knew mine was like theirs. Faces with the blood drained away, tight faces, worried, lost.…

— John Fante

“All we can ever know about are the portraits of each other inside our own skulls.”

— Greg Egan

“She said families walk hand in hand. Granny would hold my other hand. I have never been abandoned by anyone. Even though my brain…

— Sohn Won-Pyung

“That face." He finally came around the table, closing the distance between us, and I knew, I just knew he was going to frame…

— Ann Aguirre

“Grandpa stopped and looked at me. I paused, too, knowing this meant he had something important to say. His body was frail, but when…

— James Russell Lingerfelt