Bad news Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“Rosa reports the engagement of her niece in 1912 to a nice young man without a name. It may therefore be that the last…

— John Peter Nettl

“Make no mistake, the woman (Rosa) had a heart. She had a bigger one than people would think. There was a lot in it,…

— Marcus Zusak

“Wealthy old woman + devious imagination - restraint = Aunt Agatha”

— Maya Rodale

“Aunt Helen Beck had many intentions about her death. She was about being dead the way some people are about being British - she…

— Elizabeth McCracken

“Whose fault is that? I wanted to lash out. You’re the one who threw Rose away like trash. You should have left her in…

— Kate Quinn

“She was young, a Stranger to the World, and consequently to the Dangers of it; and having no Body in Town, at that Time,…

— Eliza Haywood

“fact, you could say that Rosa Hubermann had a face decorated with constant fury. That was how the creases were made in the cardboard…

— Markus Zusak

“She had not the strength to come to life now, in England, so foreign, skies so hostile. She knew she would die like an…

— D H Lawrence

“She had been born to cradle other people's children, wear their hand-me-down clothing, eat their leftovers, live on borrowed happiness and grief, grow old…

— Isabel Allende

There was the gate next, which she(Liesel)clung to. A gang of tears trudged from her eyes as she held on and refused to go…

— Markus Zusak

“My grandmother, who, when I visited, stared at me with the staggering, arrogant stare of the dying, the wise vapidity of the already gone;…

— Lorrie Moore

“Her face expressed suffering so deep that I will never forget it; her eyes radiated a deep sadness...Mrs. Folmer was oppressed by that special…

— Diet Eman