aunt

You will come across people who always affirm by everything you say, but at the hour of need, they simply disappear! Stay away from such people or simply don't fall for their promises.

No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don__ you think? The young are eternally desperate,_ he said frankly. __nd books, they offer hope _ that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe one is saved.

The only reason that some people aren__ ashamed of their parents and/or siblings is because they know that we know that they did not choose them.

To the loyal and to the blood-lovers, in the good families and in the fiery dynasties, life is family and family is life. It is the same people who give advice and their vices to live well who turn out to be the ones who give resource and reason to live long.

...a row of tables manned by seated, serious women. Each woman looked like she could be someone's least-favourite aunt.

My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom__ sister. She got straight A__ when she was a teenager and she used to give me books to read. My father said that the books were a little too old for me, but I liked them so he just shrugged and let me read.

The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed on my finger by my wife Louise 32 years later.

Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.

Beyonce has set the tone as an aunt. I've set the tone as a mom.

Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.

I'd rather be the cool aunt than the authoritative aunt.

An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.

On the big bed, Mamima and Sandeep__ mother began to dream, sprawled in vivid crab-like postures. His aunt lay on her stomach, her arms bent as if she were swimming to the edge of a lake; his mother lay on her back, her feet (one of which had a scar on it) arranged in the joyous pose of a dancer.