Quotes About Sibling Relationships

#1. Still, I could have been kinder." She frowned, her eyes wandering. "Sibling relationships can be complex. I wonder, sometimes, if my own actions had some bearing upon the paths my brothers chose. Could I have been a better sister to them? Perhaps, as a young ymbryne, I was too focused on myself.

Ransom Riggs

#2. Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside.

Brian Ferneyhough

#3. When I watch my kids, and I see the primal level at which the sibling relationships are formed, then I completely understand what these unresolved adult sibling problems are based on. You know, 'Mom liked you better' and, 'You got your own room and I didn't.'

Annette Bening

#4. Sibling relationships are complicated. All family relationships are. Look at Hamlet.

Maurice Saatchi

#5. Sibling relationships figure in a lot of my books. You don't often see relationships between adult siblings explored in fiction.

Dara Horn

#6. We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings, half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have.

Jeffrey Kluger

#7. Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck."
Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.

George R R Martin

#8. The more you love,the more love you have to give.It's the only feeling we have which is infinite ...

Christina Westover

#9. Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

Jane Austen

#10. It never dawned on us that life is unpredictable, that one day, one of us could suddenly cease to exist and what then? What would be the joy in having left so much unsaid? With what memories would we fill the empty silence?

Isabel Lopez

#11. Even after Sonja graduated secondary school at the top of her class and matriculated to the city university biology department, their parents found more to love in Natasha. Sonja's gifts were too complex to be understood, and therefore less desirable.

Anthony Marra

#12. Billy Pilgrim, there in the creekbed, thought he, Billy Pilgrim, was turning to steam painlessly.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#13. In the months before the repatriation her heart had hardened around her sister's absence, letting her love Natasha in memory as she could never love her in reality.

Anthony Marra

#14. I'm proud of you, son," he said. "I guess it has finally sunk in that it's important to stand up for yourself in this world."
Rocky shook his head. "It's more important to stand up for someone who can't stand up for herself," he had answered.
Rocky Ryan speaking with his father.

Karen Mueller Coombs

#15. Thanks for not talking with your fists," I said. I have a little sister, and I'm not sure I'd be as understanding with any of her boyfriends.
"I've seen you fight," he said, turning. "It would've been a terribly short conversation.

Lish McBride

#16. Often the right path is the one that may be hardest for you to follow. But the hard path is also the one that will make you grow as a human being.

Karen Mueller Coombs

#17. Jill had three basic statements about life,
1. It is your life, usually with some added social commentary.
2. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.
3. No one ever said that life was fair.

Nicholas Sparks

#18. You cannot decide how many children your parents will give birth to, but you can identify the sibling(s) (if any) with whom you can have a healthy relationship.

Widad Akreyi

#19. Wyatt told me once that if tenderness were a disease, I'd be terminal.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#20. I don't feel the need to explain my actions to her. I don't clarify, I don't doubt, I don't worry. I don't tell her everything, not anymore, but I tell her more than anyone else, by far. I tell her as much as I can.

Gillian Flynn

#21. Do you want to know what you think about most of the time? Take a look at the results you're getting. That will tell you exactly what's going on inside.

Bob Proctor

#22. Life is a chain of choices. Making the correct one is never easy."
"That's for sure," agreed Rocky.
"But if we didn't make difficult choices, right or wrong," said Mr. Veraldi, "we wouldn't learn anything worth knowing." Rocky Ryan and his viola teacher, Mr. Veraldi, in Bully at Ambush Corner.

Karen Mueller Coombs

#23. The love between a brother and sister just over a year apart in age held fast. It wasn't twinship, and it wasn't romance, but it was more like a passionate loyalty to a dying brand.

Meg Wolitzer

#24. My mother says we're supposed to make mistakes. That's the way we learn. Rocky Ryan in Bully At Ambush Corner.

Karen Mueller Coombs

#25. are you because of me?
am I me because of you?
the lines have long since blurred.

if, that is, they ever existed."

from "The Complication of Sisters

Katherine Mariaca-Sullivan

#26. Baby, I bear remnants of you on my body, on my soul. I always have, I always will, gladly. I just want you to know that.'
('Left from Dhakeshwari')

Kunal Sen

#27. I'm not passive aggressive. If something bothers me, I think about it, then I act on it. I express it.

Anton Yelchin

#28. You know, I don't think your brother dislikes you as much as you think. After all, he gave up a kingdom to stay with his family.

C.J. Milbrandt

#29. Yeah, and we could fly in on dragons and release a cloud of sugar plum fairies to tiptoe in an get the watch.

Mora Early

#30. The ice cold fear I'd felt, not knowing if Wyatt was alive, pressed into the wall with other girls and surrounded by guys who were unspeakably brave, hit my body again in a wave. This was trauma - the gift that keeps on giving.

Laura Anderson Kurk