Grandmother Quote by Sarra Manning

“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

“God, I was just six years older than you are now. That’s terrifying.” She raised her shoulder, nudging my head. “Please don’t make me…

— Rachel Hawkins

“Speaking of grandmas, have you heard the joke about grandparents and WWII? No? Well, if you do, be sure to tell me because I’d…

— Jarod Kintz

“I don't know what happened to your parents or why they did what they did. But in all the world, I could have wished…

— John Stephens

“She was a poor person, I was her poor child, and no one asks poor people if they want war.”

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“Tell me about the war,” he pressed cautiously. She smiled again and began, “Well . . .” The sentence ended there. Her tongue moved…

— Boris Fishman

“I'm my mother's first child, born when she was almost fourteen years old. "Think of it," I said to Laura when I turned twelve.…

— Carol Lynch Williams

“This was something Grandma Tilly couldn't understand---how war promises a boy it can make a man out of him.”

— Richard Peck

“Is it true you were born in the eighteen-hundreds?" Sophia yelled through the window. "What of it?" Grandmother answered, very distinctly. "What do you…

— Tove Jansson

“No one wanted to talk to a mother whose only child had just killed herself.”

— Kimberly McCreight

“My life might have been so different, had I not been known as the girl whose grandmother exploded.”

— Helen Grant

“You really don’t like your father, do you?” He glowered. “Let’s just say he would have eaten me if my mother hadn’t been nearly…

— Dave Ferraro