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“[My grandfather] returned to what he called ‘studying.’ He sat looking down at his lap, his left hand idle on the chair arm, his…

— Wendell Berry

“And more assumptions: A married couple was returning from the funeral of Uncle George, who had lived with them for twenty years and had…

— Anthony de Mello

“He was hounded by the shade of his brother, demanding terribly the price of blood... William of Malmesbury, the History of the English Kings.”

— Patricia Bracewell

“Like him, Uncle had eccentric tastes and liked old things. The difference, Silas was beginning to see, was that Uncle saw such objects as…

— Ari Berk

“I spent the months following my grandfather's death cycling through a purgatory of beige waiting rooms and anonymous offices (...), the object of a…

— Ransom Riggs

George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and…

— Thomas Hardy

“As I watched my family sip champagne, I thought about how their lives trailed backward and forward from my death and then, I saw,…

— Alice Sebold

“He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“In so many ways, his family's life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another...They were things for which it…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“If George Apley failed to meet certain challenges, let us admit that we all have failed in some respects, and let us remember that…

— John P. Marquand

“Taking a deep breath, George turned around taking in the unspectacular panorama. A tear moved slowly down his cheek. To George this was where…

— Emily Organ

“You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of…

— J.K. Rowling