Humor Quote by Peggy Parish

“Hello, Alan." said Carol's dad Keith. "Hello, Alan." said Carol's mum, Stella, not bothering to think of a greeting of her own.”

— Alan Partridge

“Amelia Bedelia," said Mrs. Rogers, "Christmas is just around the corner." "It is?" said Amelia Bedelia. "Which corner?" Mrs. Rogers lauhged and said, "I…

— Peggy Parish

“And as they spoke - lo and behold! - there was a knock at the door, and there stood a small, stout figure dressed…

— Christianna Brand

“Mary and Laura clung tight to their rag dolls and did not say anything. The cousins stood around and looked at them. Grandma and…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Sister's gone to school," I said to Sally. "Ah," said Sally. "And will she come home again?”

— Shirley Jackson

“Well, hey there, Mrs. Campbell.” We squealed and hugged each other tight in the doorway of Derek’s, and now Faye’s, three-thousand square foot home.”

— Jessica N. Watkins

“I turned towards the garden when the door had closed on her. Miss Halcombe was standing with her hat in her hand, and her…

— Wilkie Collins

“Perhaps you met my mother-she and I look very similar. She and my father traveled quite a bit before I was born." "That's possible,I…

— Karen Hawkins

“Our little ford was almost ready. She was later to be called Auntie after Gertrude Stein's aunt Pauline who always behaved admirably in emergencies…

— Gertrude Stein

“finally turned away. My aunt stood watching from the back door, frail and hunched. “Tell me the rest,” I said, and she did, her…

— Kate Quinn

“Mary liked to arrange picnics with the kids, and we’d take them to the Willow Grove Amusement Park. I wasn’t always running. When they…

— Charles Brandt

“I just…I wanted to say thank you. For trying to save Finley and for…I don’t know. Being nicer to us than you had to…

— Rachel Hawkins