Grandma Ruthie and her sister Jettie hadn't spoken a civil word in about fifteen years. Their last exchange was Ruthie's leaning over Jettie's coffin and whispering, "If you'd married and had children, there would be more people at your funeral." Of course, at the reading of Aunt Jettie's will, Grandma Ruthie was handed an enveloped containing a carefully folded high-resolution picture of a baboon's butt. That pretty much summed up their relationship.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS If only there was something to trade, someone to trade with; Cass would rip her soul from her body a... SOPHIE LITTLEFIELD Luella had been Lou's favorite grandma. Some grandmas took their grandchildren to parks, or bought t... AMY E. REICHERT Someone gave it to Aunt Mabel, who died in 1918, and then Grandma got it. She was about 13 years old... ALENE GENTRY'S Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES We die a day at a time BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA They say that Grandma Moses had several canvases going at the same time. Maybe it was a way for her ... MARGE SIMON It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev... ELIZABETH TAYLOR I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a ... AL YANKOVIC She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My dad was an actor and a writer; my mum was a drama teacher. My grandma was an actress. My aunt is ... CHARLIE ROWE I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me." Stars flicker... SARAH J. MAAS It was great being a part of it, we were really choked up at halftime when Ruthie spoke. She's meant... YOLANDA GRIFFITH That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Well, I think if I had married a different woman I would of had a very different life. She was my pa... LEE KUAN YEW Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Dreams, just dreams, it's all illusion BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA One of the secrets of life is to find joy in the journey." But Grandma, you weren't on *this* ... MATTHEW BUCKLEY I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal. I was a survivor, and I was strong. I would no... SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?" There was nothing but uncompromising w... SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you. His first words to me— not a lie at a... SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door. And I was not a mouse. I ... SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared. SARAH J. MAAS He drained his glass. "I made a mistake." "It's not the end of the world if you do that every n... SARAH J. MAAS I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ... SARAH J. MAAS Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers. ELIZABETH TAYLOR The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ... PATRICK W. CARR Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?" "Ah. The Suriel to... SARAH J. MAAS You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. Say if my grandma was a permanent resident, and I know her, we'd both be considered felons. DANIEL PEREZ My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spen... ELLEN POMPEO If you have to have your weapon, at least run it through the grandma test. Take the weapon and hit y... KENT NICHOLS AND DOUGLAS SARINE She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There might have been prettier women in the room but, when she turned those babies on, fluttered her... THOMM QUACKENBUSH The little boy was outside the window and the grandma was halfway in, halfway out of the window. We ... BRADLEY DAVIS Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still wa... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last f... DOUGLAS ADAMS I had become the music and the fire and the night, and there was nothing that could slow me down. SARAH J. MAAS They handle (the course) much better then the last time we were there at the (Pre-Region) Invitation... JOAN RACHETTO I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and creat... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold lik... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he... EVA BRAUN Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya..... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I live nearby a graveyard, that's where I get all my inspiration for wisdom and life BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA She's mostly concerned with (her children) moving on. She's spending time now trying to make memorie... CINDY TAYLOR Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime... STEPHEN FRY Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you. ALLY CARTER To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys." Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To... SARAH J. MAAS Males are horrible creatures, aren’t they? SARAH J. MAAS When you spend so long trapped in darkness, you find that the darkness begins to stare back. SARAH J. MAAS Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good. SARAH J. MAAS Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN But I forgot to tell him,” I said quietly, opening the door, “that the villain is usually the pe... SARAH J. MAAS You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his ange... DAVID DUCHOVNY My grandma was actually a pretty well-known opera singer in Cuba, and then my mom was a ballerina. T... FRANKIE J. ALVAREZ Sister, there are people who went to sleep all over the world last night, poor and rich and white an... MAYA ANGELOU The world slides, the world goes, and death makes equal the rich and the poor BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way ... ALLAN SHERMAN A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story t... AMANDA HOCKING Women are designed to help men and men are designed to love and honor them SOTONYE ANGA Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. As Cassian drew twin Illyrian blades, the sight of them like home, and said to Eris with lethal calm... SARAH J. MAAS I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?" "You could try rubbing ... SARAH J. MAAS There will be a huge political change within eight months and someone really huge is going to come i... CONNIE ADAMS Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It's been an amazing scene over the years, ... We've had people meet at these things and then get ma... JIM O'BRIEN oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- ... BARBARA BLATNER I could simply kill you now, get it over with, who would know the difference... BARBARA BLATNER ...gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, ... BARBARA BLATNER For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear a... SUZANNE COLLINS He had problems remembering names. There was a lot of humor about that at his funeral. HORACE WILLIAMS It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fu... BRANDON MULL It was really shocking. I remember at the funeral, everyone was walking around shocked, but Sean and... RICK BROWN He burst into the house and ate Grandma, an entirely valid course of action for a carnivore such as ... JAMES FINN GARNER It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confront... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA If they have a picture of themselves in their soccer uniform and a picture of their high school in t... CLINT VAN ZANDT I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C.
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MOLLY IVINS I have long argued that no one should be allowed to write opinion without spending years as a report... MOLLY IVINS Texas is still resistant to Howard Johnsons, interstate highways and some forms of phoniness. It is ... MOLLY IVINS Hekate smacked the mirror down. "I'd never fancy you," she retorted to Hermes. "And if you ever try ... MOLLY RINGLE You're welcome to as much wine as you can drink, Ares." ...[Ares] watched two bare-breast... MOLLY RINGLE Hermes, we love you," Hades said, "but you rarely do as you're told, and you always do as you wish, ... MOLLY RINGLE Hermes visited him in the Underworld a few days before the spring equinox festival, cajoling Hades t... MOLLY RINGLE People mess up and make mistakes all the time. Everyone deserves a second chance right? - Brandon MOLLY MCADAMS Anyone who has ever spent time listening to a legislature knows the astonishing speed at which all p... MOLLY IVINS One nice thing about the benefit of long experience with la frontera is that we in Texas don't h... MOLLY IVINS The only reason to have a positive mental attitude is that it makes life better. It doesn't cure... MOLLY IVINS The greatest moral leader of my lifetime was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose private life does not... MOLLY IVINS Disheartened, enraptured, and strangely lightheaded, Grady emerged from the trees and walked back th... MOLLY RINGLE When you're an outsider, you don't have loyalties to anyone, so you can be cruelly honest if... MOLLY CRABAPPLE Your heart is where your inner light resides. It is part of every sacred journey to reconnect with y... MOLLY FRIEDENFELD Angels only care about what you look like on the inside. A pure heart is the vessel that contains a ... MOLLY FRIEDENFELD When your footsteps and thoughts carry you down the same path your heart and soul are directing you,... 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