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The boughs, without becoming detached from the trunk grow away from it.

- Victor Hugo

She stands firmly on her own two feet, and I just behind her; should she ever need me.

- J. Iron Word

There are rare people who will show up at the right time, help you through the hard times and stay into your best times… those are the keepers.

- Nausicaa Twila

What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention.

- Claire Cook

That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.

- Kristen Hannah

Because angels are sometimes busy elsewhere, god created sisters like you.

- Sal Williams

Boys seemed incredibly tedious and dim compared to my sisters, who were always a rush of energy and excitement, buzzing over all the books, records, jokes, rumors and ideas we were discovering together.

- Rob Sheffield

Girls will be your friends – they’ll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything – they’re your true best friends.

- Marilyn Monroe

Among the merits and the happiness of Elinor and Marianne let it not be ranked as the least considerable that though sisters, and living almost within sight of each other, they could live without disagreement between themselves.

- Jane Austen

There were once two sisters who were not afraid of the dark because the dark was full of the other’s voice across the room, because even when the night was thick and starless they walked home together from the river seeing who could last the longest without turning on her flashlight, not afraid.

- Jandy Nelson

Brother Sister Quotes List

No life’s worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.

- Brother Sister Quotes by Michael Franti

Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.

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Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.

- Susan Scarf Merrell Quotation

You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil.

- A Quotation From Louis Farrakhan

We are brothers and sisters. We are one sacred family.

- Lailah Gifty Akita

Brothers and sisters separated by distance, joined by love.

- Chuck Danes

Our brothers and sisters are with us for the whole journey.

- Katherine Conger

Brothers and sisters are one of the constant things in the lives of many people.

- Richard Branson

Short Sister Quotes in English

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

- Horace

Five sisters. That must have been hell.

- Amy McAuley

A ministering angel shall my sister be.

- William Shakespeare

You mess with my sister, you’re messing with me!

- Loretta Livingstone

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

- Benjamin Disraeli

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

- Charlie Brown

You can kid the world, but not your sister.

- Charlotte Gray

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.

- Louise Glück

As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.

- Patti Smith

My sister has been there for me through everything.

- Brad Goreski

Try not to stab your sister, whatever the provocation.

- George R.R. Martin

We didn’t want to admit it then, but we were friends. Best friends.

- Shannon Celebi

A sister is a friend you don’t have to avoid the truth with.

- Michelle Malm

Her heart was like a great road with room for everyone.

- Lisa See

She’s my little sister. Mine to torture and mine to protect.

- Julia Quinn

Help one another, is part of the religion of sisterhood.

- Louisa May Alcott

She is my sister, always, even in death, even beyond.

- Marie Lu

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

- Sophocles

There is no place for secrets in sisterhood.

-Erin Forbes

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

-Benjamin Disraeli

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.

- James Boswell

The brother and sister pair of: Patience and Hustle are the best siblings ever!

- Gary Vaynerchuk

Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.

- Susan Scarf Merrell

No life’s worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.

- Michael Franti

Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.

- Vietnamese Proverb

I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family. I have a wonderful relationship with my brother and sister; this makes me feel that I know always where I belong.

- Jose Carreras

If you have a brother or sister, tell them you love them every day – that’s the most beautiful thing. I told my sister how much I loved her every day. That’s the only reason I’m OK right now.

- Amaury Nolasco

My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister… because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.

- Ronaldinho

I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see, I sought my god, but my god eluded me; And then I sought my sisters and my brothers, and in them I found all three.

- Baba Amte

Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.

- Sojourner Truth

Don’t believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.

- Maya Angelou

Sister Love Quotes

My sister is a mess. I love her to death, but she is a mess.

- Sister Love Quotes by RJ Mitte

When our hair is white, we’ll still have our sister love.

- Lisa See

Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.

- Ugo Betti

Grief is loved turned into an eternal missing… It can’t be contained in hours or days or minutes.

- Rosamund Lupton

So distant but so close. So different but so similar. That’s why I love my sister.

- Maxime Lagace

She’ll go and fall in love, and there’s an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.

- Louisa May Alcott

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother… Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

- Anna Quindlen

I’m the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I don’t have anything. I love her too much.

- Venus Williams

Acquaintances were always on their best behavior, but sisters loved each other enough to say anything.

-Lauren Weisberger

If you don’t annoy your big sister for no good reason from time to time, she thinks you don’t love her anymore.

- Pearl Cleage

I love the notion of “storm sisters” – soul friends who help us get through life’s most raw and painful transitions.

- Jennifer Grant

I love the notion of “storm sisters” - soul friends who help us get through life’s most raw and painful transitions.

- Jennifer Grant

I’ve been there, sister. There’s not quite a right answer to that question, is there? Hold up your head. You’re much loved.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

Sisters touch your heart in ways no other could. Sisters share… their hopes, their fears, their love, everything they have.

- Carrie Bagwell

The loss of her is already too much and then there’s the other thing – the end of being loved in the way only my sister could love me.

- Emily Maguire

I’ve known every love possible, but as the years stretched out, the love I longed for the most is the one I shared with my sister.

- Josephine Angelini

You need a strong family because at the end, they will love you and support you unconditionally. Luckily, I have my dad, mom and sister.

- Esha Gupta

Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home.

- Shannon L. Alder

She is your mirror, shining back at you with a world of possibilities. She is your witness, who sees you at your worst and best, and loves you anyway.

- Barbara Alpert

I’m the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I don’t have anything. It’s hard. I love her too much. That’s what counts.

- Venus Williams

Sister. She is your mirror, shining back at you with a world of possibilities. She is your witness, who sees you at your worst and best, and loves you anyway.

- Barbara Alpert

I know my sister like I know my own mind/You will never find anyone as trusting or as kind…I love my sister more than anything in this life/I will choose her happiness over mine every time.

- Hamilton

But the love of sisters needs no words. It does not depend on memories, or mementos, or proof. It runs as deep as a heartbeat. It is as ever present as a pulse.

- Lisa Wingate

I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it’s all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the same share of love.

- Jodi Picoult

Sister. She is your mirror, shining back at you with a world of possibilities. She is your witness, who sees you at your worst and best, and loves you anyway. She is your partner in crime, your midnight companion, someone who knows when you are smiling, even in the dark. She is your teacher, your defense attorney, your personal press agent, even your shrink. Some days, she’s the reason you wish you were an only child.

-Barbara Alpert

I know some sisters who only see each other on Mother’s Day and some who will never speak again. But most are like my sister and me… linked by volatile love, best friends who make other best friends ever so slightly less best.

- Patricia Volk

No man who respects his mother or loves his sister, can speak disparagingly of any woman; however low she may seem to have sunk, she is still a woman. I want every man to remember this.

- Victoria Woodhull

Nobody could hold the same place in your heart as your sister. Love or hate her, she was the only person who grew up exactly like you, who knew the secrets of your household.

- Jessica Taylor

If you don’t understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.

- Linda Sunshine

We have our own, unspoken language—a look that makes one of us fall on the floor laughing or the slight inflection in our voice that conveys everything. It is the ability to prod laughter and love no matter how much your heart might hurt. Someone who sees you exactly as you are and thinks that is enough. Someone who will walk next to you always.

-Barbara Bush

Sisters, as you know, also have a unique relationship. This is the person who has known you your entire life, who should love you and stand by you no matter what, and yet it’s your sister who knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt you the most.

- Lisa See

Sisters, as you know, also have a unique relationship. This is the person who has known you your entire life, who should love you and stand by you no matter what, and yet it’s your sister who knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt you the most.

- Lisa See

If you don’t understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.

- Linda Sunshine

Love is close to hate when it comes to sisters. You’re as close as two humans can be. You came from the same womb. The same background. Even if you’re poles apart, mentally. That’s why it hurts so much when your sister is unkind. It’s as though part of you is turning against yourself.

- Jane Corry

Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!

- Charlotte M. Yonge

That’s the best thing about little sisters: They spend so much time wishing they were elder sisters that in the end they’re far wiser than the elder ones could ever be.

- Gemma Burgess

Sister Sayings in English

Sister is our first friend and second mother.

- Sunny Gupta

Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.

- Pam Brown

Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other.

- Carol Saline

Sisters examine each other so they can have a map for how they should behave.

- Michael D. Kahn

Sisters share the scent and smells – the feel of a common childhood.

- Pam Brown

Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other.

- Carol Saline

Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other.

- Carol Saline

Sisters are reliably good for two things: hating and loving.

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Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.

- Maya Angelou Download or Share

The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend.

- Best sister Quotes by Cali Rae Turner

A sister smiles when one tells one’s stories – for she knows where the decoration has been added.

- Chris Montaigne

My sister has been there for me through everything.

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Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.

Lisa Lee

How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.

- Short Sister Quotes by Pam Brown

You can be boring and tedious with sisters, whereas you have to put on a good face with friends.

Deborah Moggach

Sisters make the best friends in the world.

- Brother and Sister Quotes by Marilyn Monroe

Never let an angry sister comb your hair.

Patricia McCann

She is my sounding board, my confidante, my keeper of secrets - and my best friend.

Kathleen O’Keefe

More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you’ve been bad and good.

Linda Sunshine

The last thing May says to me is “When our hair is white, we’ll still have our sister love.

Lisa See

A sister will always notice her sister’s first gray hairs with glee.

Allison M. Lee

As anybody with two older sisters can tell you, a closed door is like a red rag to a bull. It cannot go unchallenged.

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How do people make it through life without a sister?

- Sara Corpening Download or Share

You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you.

George R.R. Martin

A sister is everything you wish you could be and everything you wish you weren’t.

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We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don’t judge.

- Adriana Trigiani

Bond is stronger than blood. The family grows stronger by bond.

- Itohan Eghide

A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.

- Toni Morrison

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she’s wearing your best sweater.

- Pam Brown

When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?

- Pam Brown

She is your partner in crime, your midnight companion, someone who knows when you are smiling even in the dark.

- Barbara Alpert

Sister Quotation in English

When my sister, Joan, arrived I asked if I could swap her for a rabbit. When I think what a marvelous friend she’s been, I’m so glad my parents didn’t take me at my word.

- Maeve Binchy

Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.

- Jeffrey Kluger

We acquire friends and we make enemies, but our sisters come with the territory.

- Evelyn Loeb

Lord help the mister who comes between me and my sister, and lord help the sister who comes between me and my man.

- Irving Berlin

When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?”

- Pam Brown

I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.

- Emily Dickinson

A sister is one that always cares, she is loving and kind, and will always drop everything if you need her.

- Catherine Pulsifer

That’s what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other’s frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we’ve had since childhood, and then we come back together. Until the next time.

- Lisa See

Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day.

- A.A. Milne

A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.

- Toni Morrison

Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of long ago - the baby, the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the avoider…. It doesn’t seem to matter how much time has elapsed or how far we’ve traveled.

- Jane Mersky Leder

A sister is both your mirror – and your opposite.

- Elizabeth Fishel

To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confident - it is to have a soulmate for life.

- Victoria Secunda

My sister…is the person who keeps me in line, whether I like it or not. I trust her and also have a good, healthy fear of her.

-Katy Perry

She is your teacher, your defense attorney, your personal press agent, even your shrink. Some days, she’s the reason you wish you were an only child.

- Barbara Alpert

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

- Mary Montagu

A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.

- Toni Morrison

Sisters share a bond unlike any other – thornier, but also tender, full of possibility.

- Joy McCullough

You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you.

- George R.R. Martin

Losing my sister to cancer was… That was the worst thing in the world, man.

- Guy Fieri

I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler…There’s a part of me that still believes it. I have moments when I think, ‘Hmm, could that be true?’ Occasionally I ask my sister about it and she responds by pulling an alien face, which only confuses matters.

- Zooey Deschanel

In thee my soul shall own combined the sister and the friend.

- Catherine Killigrew

“It was nice to be in such close physical proximity, even though they hadn’t spoken in months, and only via cursory birthday cards and the like. In the end, it didn’t matter. Sisters were sisters.

- Emma Straub

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

Do you forget that I am your sister?”. “No; I’ve never been granted the opportunity to forget it.” Georgette Heyer
There’s nobody in the world that knows me better than my sister.

- Tia Mowry

As you’re growing up and you’re close, you can’t trust anyone the way you trust your sister, but also they have the power to wound you in ways no one else really does.

- Ally Condie

Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.

- Jojo Moyes

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

- Jane Austen

You’re a big sister?’ I was shocked. She seemed so good-natured and compassionate.

- Natalie Standiford

Nancy: “sisters are a shield against life’s cruel adversity”. Decca: “sisters are life’s cruel adversity”.

- Mary S Lovell

I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.

- Zooey Deschanel

I suppose there are sisters that don’t compete. I have never met one.

- Lisa Grunwald

To the outside world we all grow old. But not sisters. We know each other as we always were. We live outside the touch of time.

- Clara Ortega

She is your teacher, your defense attorney, your personal press agent, even your shrink. Some days, she’s the reason you wish you were an only child.

- Barbara Alpert

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister?

- Alice Walker

Sisterhood was about shared experiences, trust, knowing you had people who would be there for you and would listen to you no matter what, and who could always tell if there was something wrong.

- Michelle Madow

My first beauty moment was when I was probably four years old. My sister and I snuck into my mom’s room and got into her makeup. We put on blush and lipstick and eyeshadow. I will always remember that day.

-Stella Maxwell

Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.

- Mike Norton

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

- Jodi Picoult

We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song.

- Elizabeth Fishel

They were the ones who, with a single look, knew if you were about to burst into giggles or into tears and why.

- Michelle Madow

A sister is someone who owns part of what you own: a house, perhaps, or a less tangible legacy, like memories of your childhood and the experience of your family.

- Deborah Tannen

A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite.

- Elizabeth Fishel

Of two sisters, one is always the watcher, one the dancer.

- Louise Gluck

Your sister knows everything to say to piss you off. But sisters tend to be each other’s biggest champion and also their hardest critics.

- Erin Foster

The two sisters didn’t come wailing. They came quietly, holding on to each other. As if they needed no one’s comfort but the other’s.

- Kristen Ciccarelli

Sister Thoughts in English

We didn’t want to admit it then, but we were friends. Best friends.

- Shannon Celebi

You’re not my best friend. You’re my sister, and that’s more.

- Jenny Han

The only person I lie to is my little sister, when I steal her clothes.

- Kendall Jenner

Siblings that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something.

- Lemony Snicket

We’ll always fight, but we’ll always make up as well. That’s what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other’s frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we’ve had since childhood, and then we come back together. Until the next time.

- Lisa See

It is strange how sisters can be saviors or strangers and sometimes a bit of both.

- Amanda Lovelace

A sister is like yourself in a different movie, a movie that stars you in a different life.

- Deborah Tannen

I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself.

- Jennifer Haigh

An older sister is a friend and defender – a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.

- Pam Brown

An older sister is a friend and defender – a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.

- Pam Brown

My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time.

- Linda Sunshine *

Life’s a battlefield, and we remain loyal to those who fight for us; those who’d die for us.

- Crystal Woods

A sister is often a mentor, a guide, and a best friend especially at a time of need.

- Debasish Mridha

The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble.

- Clara Ortega

How the hell do you sum up your sister in three minutes? She’s your twin and your polar opposite. She’s your constant companion and your competition. She’s your best friend and the biggest bitch in the world. She’s everything you wish you could be and everything you wish you weren’t.

- M. Molly Backes

You can’t think how I depend on you, and when you’re not there the colour goes out of my life.

- Virginia Woolf

Little sisters can be a pain, but the big sister heroine worship can’t be beat.

- Allison M. Lee

Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring - quite often the hard way.

- Pamela Dugdale

Sisters don’t need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief.

- Pam Brown

I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister.

-Erin Morgenstern

We shared a room, you stole my toys, and then my clothes, but best friends we became.

- Catherine Pulsifer

A sister takes in pride with you. She is like a girl you can trust with all of your secrets.

- Kortney Cobbley

Having a sister is like having a best friend you can’t get rid of. You know whatever you do, they’ll still be there.

-Amy Li

A younger sister is someone who trusts you to defend her. Someone who thinks you know the answers to almost everything.

- Pam Brown

We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song.

- Elizabeth Fishel

Don’t talk about my sister; don’t play with me about my sister. If you do, you’ll see another side of me.

- Beyonce

You don’t choose these people and in the not choosing you learn tolerance. You learn to forgive.

- Heather Babcock

What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention.

- Claire Cook

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

- Jodi Picoult

You know full well as I do the value of sisters’ affections; there is nothing like it in this world.

- Charlotte Bronte

I am still the center sister. But I see it differently now. There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.

- Sarah Dessen

We acquire friends and we make enemies, but our sisters come with the territory.

- Evelyn Loeb

As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.

- Patti Smith

A toast once heard: “To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I’d found my first”.

- Robert Brault

What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention.

- Claire Cook

A sister smile when one tells one’s stories, for she knows where the decoration has been added.

- Chris Montaigne

My sister was the one person who told me not to change, that my skin was beautiful. She really helped me feel good about myself.

- Khoudia Diop

My sister and I are so close that we finish each other’s sentences and often wonder whose memories belong to whom.

- Shannon Celebi

The boughs, without becoming detached from the trunk grow away from it.

- Victor Hugo

Family, friends and relationships are the blessings of the God. They are the best way to access God.

- Amit Ray

Girls will be your friends – they’ll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything – they’re your true best friends.

- Marilyn Monroe

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands.

- Christina Rossetti

She is the only person left in the world who shares my memories of our childhood, our parents, our Shanghai, our struggles, our sorrows, and, yes, even our moments of happiness and triumph.

- Lisa See

I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness..

- Emily Dickinson

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

- Mary Montague

You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they’re the only ones who don’t get bored if you talk about your memories.

- Deborah Moggach

I am so proud to call you sister. I could not ask for a better friend, for a better encourager, you have made a positive difference in my life.

- Catherine Pulsifer

What’s the good of news if you haven’t a sister to share it?

- James DeVries

We may look old and wish to the outside world, but to each other, we are still in junior school.

- Charlotte Gray

Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.

- Jeffrey Kluger

But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you.

- Adriana Trigiani

A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.

- Isadora James

A sibling may be the keeper of one’s identity, the only person with the keys to one’s unfettered, more fundamental self.

- Marian Sandmaier

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

- Jodi Picoult

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

- Jane Austen

It is strange how sisters can be saviors or strangers and sometimes a bit of both.

- Amanda Lovelace

I came because without her, it’s hard to remember who I am.

- Jodi Picoult

A sister is someone who owns part of what you own: a house, perhaps, or a less tangible legacy, like memories of your childhood and the experience of your family.

- Deborah Tannen

Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.

- Jodi Picoult

The boughs, without becoming detached from the trunk grow away from it.

- Victor Hugo

If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn’t be filled?

- Jodi Picoult

How do people make it through life without a sister?

- Sara Corpening

My sister is the one person who truly knows me, as I know her.

- Lisa See

Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that’s never lost is your sister.

- Gail Sheeny

To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confident… it is to have a soul mate for life.

- Victoria Secunda

Only your sister could know how it felt to grow up in the house that made you you.

- Jessica Taylor

I do not mourn the loss of my sister because she will always be with me, in my heart.

- Erin Morgenstern

When you can’t look on the bright side, I will sit with you in the dark.

- Alice in Wonderland

A sister is like yourself in a different movie, a movie that stars you in a different life.

- Deborah Tannen

One’s sister is part of one’s essential self, an eternal presence of ones’ heart, soul and memory.

- Susan Cabil

I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.

- Emily Dickinson

She was the sun of my life, the gilder of every pleasure, the soother of every sorrow, I had not a thought concealed from her, and it is as if I had lost a part of myself.

- Cassandra Austen

It was nice to be in such close physical proximity, even though they hadn’t spoken in months, and only via cursory birthday cards and the like. In the end, it didn’t matter. Sisters were sisters.

- Emma Straub