185 Quotes About Grandmother

But my grandmother wanted us to forgive her murderer.

Over the water of time I call to youIn a language I do not know.

Well," she said, "how can I be sure there aren't invisible people in the world? Scientists didn't believe in the mountain gorilla for hundreds of years. And now look. So if scientists can be wrong, then all of us can be wrong. I mean, what if all those invisible people ARE scientists? Think about that one.

His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of people in this world, she had told him, and the spirits will see that most of them, you never have to meet. But there are one or two that you are tied to, and spirits will cross you back and forth, threading so many knots until they catch and you finally get it right.

Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me.

You want to know the grand Crochan secret?” she went on. “Our great truth that we keep from you, that we guard with our lives? It is not where we hide, or how to break your curse. You have known all this time how to break it—you have known for five hundred years that your salvation lies in your hands alone. No, our great secret is that we pity you.

Why would Roman gods want to date Chinese Canadians?

I grin. “It’s just a party,” I assure her. “Nothin’ big.”“There ain’t nothin’ that happens on this ranch that’s organized by your mama that ain’t big. That woman’s about as subtle as a shotgun.”“A shotgun can be subtle if it ain’t bein’ fired,” I point out.She narrows her eyes. I think she’s about to quip back with something super sassy, but then a smile wrinkles up her face. “You sayin’ I’m better off to keep the shotgun from firin’?”“I’m sayin’ quit playin’ with the trigger, Grandma.

Will the devil be home?”“My grandma is not the devil,” Ben said, smiling despite the insult. “Besides, isn’t the devil a male?”“I thought so until I met your grandma. Could you tell her to stop calling me Fatty?”“You could stand to lose a little weight.