You want to be an alchemist so badly? Don’t wait to react to the immediate problem.Plan ahead. Look at the big picture and you won’t ever have to deal with that problem.Better to save yourself...

Clary curled up on the ground seeing in front of her not the shell of a destroyed town but the eyes of the brother and the sister that she would never have.

As she worked, she remembered something her parents had said to her when Klaus was born, and against when they brought Sunny home from the hospital. ‘you are the eldest Baudelaire child,’ they had said,...

It wasn’t till they were on the bridge that Delly asked RB, “So, Ferris Boyd’s your favorite?” She didn’t mind, mostly.RB answered so fast, though, she knew he wasn’t fibbing. “She’s my favorite friend,” he...

this one’s more like one of those self-assembly Swedish wardrobes.

I have no brothers or sisters, so I get all my sibling love. But since I can’t take what’s already mine, I end up giving it all to my cat.

he is your special friend.

Being an only child makes me the oldest child and the youngest child. And the middle child.

Your relationship with your brother will be, in many ways, the most complex and bewildering of all the interpersonal connections you will form. An older brother is both authority and peer, friend and bitter enemy,...

I should have guessed you were Jace’s sister,” he said. “You both have the same artistic talent.”Clary paused, her foot on the lowest stair. She was taken aback. “Jace can draw?”Nah.” When Alec smiled, his...

Coming back last time to the house she grew up in, Isabel had been reminded of the darkness that had descended with her brothers’ deaths, how loss had leaked all over her mother’s life like...

and you play with knives…

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

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,...

If giving my everything is what it takes, I won’t hesitate, not for even a second. That’s what it means to have something you’d give your life to keep safe.

Peanut butter and jelly is like the older, more serious brother to egg salad sandwich. I’m an only child, so I eat both with incredible sadness.

Oliver has stated many times his dislike of hearing advice from his younger sister, so it is his own fault if he has not got sense enough to see which way the wind is blowing.

Menjadi panutan bukan tugas anak sulung-kepada adaik-adiknya, tapi tugas orang tua kepada semua anak

Whoa, that’s the kind of little sister I can dig!” said Edison.”Yes, we’re all alike,” I said. “We cover for you, we lie for you, we take the heat for you. We clean up your...

So you’re the guy who did the no-no cha-cha with my baby sister.

it was weird. Would you believe it if some supermodel called you up and told you she was your sister?’ Strike thought of his own bizarre family history. ‘Probably,’ he said.

We were born in the ’70s, back when twins were rare, a bit magical: cousins of the unicorn, siblings of the elves.

It was two years ago that I first met Yuki. I remember that painfully thin figure covered in dirt: malnourished, exhausted and carrying a sleeping child in his arms like it’s the most precious thing...

Rose leaned against the bathroom door. Here it was — her real life, the truth of who she was, barreling down on her like a bus with bad brakes. Here was the truth — she...

When you’re sorting yourself out, family are not often the ones you can turn to. They represent the place of departure and not the place of arrival.

It’s been my experience that only children never learn when to keep their fucking traps shut. An older brother would have beat that out of you.

She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. It’s the trademark of the oldest sibling, I think.

Soul SisterEvoking all my inner goodnesswith bastions of timeI cradle your heartsisterly into mine…

I couldn’t imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings but cousins and aunts and uncles, an entire tribe to claim as your own....

Grandmother pointed out my brother Perry, my sister Sarah, and my sister Eliza, who stood in the group. I had never seen my brother nor my sisters before; and, though I had sometimes heard of...

Because deep down you know that someone needs to keep you out of trouble.

I liked having some time to myself. Our family was such a close one, you could get smothered. Of course, we didn’t always agree with one another. Sometimes I quarreled with my brother and sisters,...

Anisette! You will eat your food, not demonstrate aerial warfare across the table with it.

New Labour leader Ed Miliband announces plan to ‘make this party slightly less unelectable by 2015’. He added: ‘I am Ed, the Almighty One.’Defeated brother David Miliband overheard muttering: ‘Now I know how Wayne Christ...

My mom told me once that Wyatt loved her the way a boy will love his mother, but I loved her the way an artist loves another. Jo taught me what that meant.

And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally stupid.

You can’t fight hatred with hatred and expect anyone to listen to you. You can only try to lessen it with humor, wit, truth and commonsense. If that doesn’t work run like hell, while they...

A sister should set her brother up with one of her friends, unless her only friend is her sister.

Fighting with siblings, especially the little ones, has always, and will always be the same. You fight with your hands tied behind your back. You know that you’ll lose. But you still fight back, either...

Haruhi: This is a sibling squabble, not a fight to the death! You’re both wrong, and acting like idiots only proves it!

I tried to put myself in his place, and realized we looked exactly like what we were: a family. These strangely tied together individuals trying desperately to keep both ourselves and one another happy. Succeeding,...

I can tell by the look on Hagin’s face that he had eaten some of my food. It is amazing those boys aren’t fat.

I wanted to tell her that I loved her, and not in the complicated way I loved our parents, but in a simple way I never had to think about. I loved her like breathing.

Not only had my brother disappeared, but–and bear with me here–a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could...

I tried to show him things, but he didn’t seem to study what I showed him. Usually, he just put whatever I handed him in his mouth. He would try to eat anything. I fed...

It’s a commonly expressed and rather nice, romantic notion that we are all “sisters” and “brothers.”Let’s be real. Fact is, we might be better served to accept that we are all siblings.Siblings fight, pull each...

I used to pray you know, pray to God that He would somehow stop it. All the nights of listening to my mother scream and things breaking. Of holding my brother and sister and listening...

Also,” Nick added curtly, “I’m sorry about your face.”Jamie looked over his shoulder, and touched the demon’s mark crawling along his jaw with the back of his hand. “Sorry about saving all our lives by...

Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and...

One of the few things left in the world, aside from the world itself, that sadden me every day is an awareness that you get upset if Boo Boo or Walt tells you you’re saying...