{"quotes":[{"text":"...A row of tables manned by seated, serious women. Each woman looked like she could be someone's least-favourite aunt.","author":"Adam Rex","tags":["aunt","funny","women"],"id":4444,"author_id":"Adam+Rex"},{"text":"Beyonce has set the tone as an aunt. I've set the tone as a mom.","author":"Solange Knowles","tags":["aunt","tone","beyonce "],"id":4695,"author_id":"Solange+Knowles"},{"text":"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.","author":"Tori Amos","tags":["me","name","aunt "],"id":80460,"author_id":"Tori+Amos"},{"text":"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.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["advice","ancestors","aunt","blood","blood-is-thicker-than-water","bloodlines","brother","cousin","daughter","descendants","dignity","dynasty","faithfulness","family","father","fellowship","friendship","grandfather","grandmother","grandparents","holy-matrimony","honor","husband","life","living","living-well","long-life","love","loyalty","marriage","matrimony","meaning","meaning-of-life","mother","nobility","parents","purpose","purpose-of-life","reason","relationship","relatives","resources","royalty","sister","son","spouse","trust","uncle","vice","wealth","wife"],"id":126917,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["aunt","child","family","loyalty","secrets"],"id":150398,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"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.","author":"Marcelene Cox","tags":["children","election","aunt "],"id":228296,"author_id":"Marcelene+Cox"},{"text":"My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight A’s 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.","author":"Stephen Chbosky","tags":["aunt","books","relationships"],"id":288970,"author_id":"Stephen+Chbosky"},{"text":"I'd rather be the cool aunt than the authoritative aunt.","author":"Solange Knowles","tags":["aunt","rather","than "],"id":297106,"author_id":"Solange+Knowles"},{"text":"On the big bed, Mamima and Sandeep’s 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.","author":"Amit Chaudhuri","tags":["aunt","dancer","mother","sleep","stomach"],"id":336492,"author_id":"Amit+Chaudhuri"},{"text":"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.","author":"David Miliband","tags":["wife","grandfather","aunt "],"id":338557,"author_id":"David+Miliband"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}