Sister Relationships Quotes

#1. He was seven years old the summer that his life ended. He'd always felt like his life was taken the moment that truck rammed into his father and sister. Or at least, the life he would have had was ended before it even began.

Melodie Ramone

#2. Sanskrit has different words to describe love for a brother or sister, love for a teacher, love for a partner, love for one's friends, love of nature, and so on. English has only one word, which leads to never-ending confusion.

Sharon Salzberg

#3. I lean against my sister's shoulder. "I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice."

"Sure it does," Izzy tells me. "But only if you're too dumb to move.

Jodi Picoult

#4. It was Joseph Smith who taught me how to prize the endearing relationships of father and mother, husband and wife; of brother and sister, son and daughter, mashed potatoes and gravy.

Parley P. Pratt

#5. She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room, but she had crossed a continent.

Anthony Marra

#6. 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

#7. For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#8. So much had never been explained to her. They were that kind of family. Things necessary to know were passed along brother to brother, sister to sister, and this sufficient for most purposes, despite inevitable error and sensational.

Marilynne Robinson

#9. 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

#10. Inevitably I draw on my own relationships when I write, so if I'm writing about a fight between a husband and his wife, of course I'm going to think about a recent fight with my husband. Or if I'm writing about sisters, of course I'm going to think about my sister.

Emily Giffin

#11. By nature man without woman can feel no joy. She is his mother, his sister, his loving friend. She is seldom his enemy.

Christine De Pizan

#12. We didn't want to admit it then, but we were friends. Best friends.

Shannon Celebi

#13. When somebody you love dies, you want the world to just stop, but it doesn't ... everything keeps going, and so it's up to you to catch the moment ... to savor that time ... years ago when you ran hand in hand down the hill with your sister.

Wes Adamson

#14. I felt like an animal, and animals don't know sin, do they?

Jess C. Scott

#15. Don't use your mommy ninja skills on me.

Ottilie Weber

#16. 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.

Stephen Chbosky

#17. Sisters and brothers just happen, we don't get to choose them, but they become one of our most cherish relationships.

Wes Adamson

#18. I did not want to set my world alight, to watch it burn because of the sister I had come to love too much.

Sarah Swainson

#19. The kind of issues that we face as detectives are similar to what the other married couples out there are facing, or the brother and sister, or the brother and brother are facing. Relationships are universal.

Michael Ealy

#20. You are blood. You are sisters. No man can break that bond.

Kim Boykin

#21. She was few inches taller than him and when for the first time her promising eyes met with his, he knew it would be more than friendship. He was too young to name that feeling then. But love...above all relationships knows no age.

Viraj J. Mahajan

#22. My brain came alight with tenderness for her. I felt so sorry for everything. I yearned to embrace her, kiss her even, to stay with her, always her, my sister, my friend to the end. It was a story after all, even if a sick one. It was completely ours.

Hannah Lillith Assadi

#23. Substitute the word gay for straight and she's the exact same pain in the neck kid sister she was before she told us.

Amy Kaufman Burk

#24. Mindfulness won't ensure you'll win an argument with your sister. Mindfulness won't enable you to bypass your feelings of anger or hurt either. But it may help you see the conflict in a new way, one that allows you to break through old patterns.

Sharon Salzberg

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. I had lost relationships with my dad, my brother and sister and I was just like, you know what, this is definitely the time to just get it together and so that's what I did.

Nicole Richie

#28. He disapproved, he didn't believe in girls drinking, he was full of the conventions of a generation older than himself. Of course one drank oneself, one fornicated, but one didn't lie with a friend's sister, and 'decent' girls were never squiffy.

Graham Greene

#29. If you never learned to hold onto someone, how could it possibly hurt now to let them go?

Shannon L. Alder

#30. My sister and I are so close that we finish each other's sentences and often wonder who's memories belong to whom.

Shannon Celebi

#31. Soul Sister
Evoking all my inner goodness
with bastions of time
I cradle your heart
sisterly into mine ...

Muse

#32. Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.

Emily Bronte

#33. Who is my brother now? When did he transform from the boy who made me too-sweet tea to a man with secrets too heavy to share with his little sister?

Sabaa Tahir

#34. At this point, none of us are sure why we fight. We're sisters. We need no good reason to fight, even though we have plenty of them.

Ken Wheaton

#35. 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

#36. A man's heart does not love like a woman's, Lorelei. Logren would lay down and die if he thought his death would save your life because you are his sister, but his tongue is not so easily guided by his brother's heart.

Jennifer Melzer