Hazel frowned. “Why that one?””You don’t see the ghost?” Frank asked.”Ghost?” Nico asked.Okay… if Frank was seeing a ghost that the Underworld kids couldn’t see, something was definitely wrong.

We share a bond. We do everything together. We have a piece of strong, invisible thread connecting us. It’s indestructible – it can never be broken. The thread is the key item that links us...

Her hands flew to her mouth. ‘Are we even twins?’Josh rested his hand on her shoulder and brought his forehead to rest against hers, strands of their blond hair mingling. ‘I will always be your...

Caleb and Tris exchange a look. The skin on his face and on her knuckles is nearly the same colour, purple-blue-green, as if drawn with ink. This is what happens when siblings collide – they...

There was an outburst of noise and protests, and Jeremy announced I wasn’t being logical, of course they wouldn’t sell me, because it was illegal, for heaven’s sake. Alexa gave him a look that said...

I think I rescued myself.

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...

You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me down by even the feeblest claim: I can tell you this – if...

The thing to know about my brother was that even though he was fifteen, he looked to be about the same age as me. Only, I’m not sure if that was because he looked older...

I wish the night would end,I wish the day’d begin,I wish it would rain or snow,or the wind would blow,or the grass would grow,I wish I had yesterday,I wish there were games to play…

The last image I registered was Ethan and my hand – linked, bound and unbreakable.

One final time I told myself I wasn’t abducting my little brother.

People talk about the happy quiet that can exist between two loves, but this, too, was great; sitting between his sister and his brother, saying nothing, eating. Before the world existed, before it was populated,...

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.

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...

Jake eyed his brother. “I never forget. All data is stored in my memory banks. And one day, candy pig, you will pay.””You ‘re such a geek.””Thesbo.””That’s Jack’s latest insult.”Seth gestured with his wine-glass. “A...

There was something about the people you grew up around, the ones you’d seen throughout your childhood, the folks you couldn’t remember not knowing. Even if the past was a complicated mess, as you aged,...

It was the sibling thing, I suppose. I was fascinated by the intricate tangle of love and duty and resentment that tied them together. The glances they exchanged; the complicated balance of power established over...

Bett didn’t have any siblings because she said her father had preserved what was dead for too long to be able to create life. When Bet was younger and had begged for one, her father...

If I met a man who had eleven sons, the first thing I’d ask is, Are they all yours? And of course the next question I’d ask is, which one plays quarterback and which one...

He gave her a sly, sideways look. “Did youbring it?””My list? Heavens, no. What can you be thinking?”His smile widened. “I brought mine.”Daphne gasped. “You didn’t!””I did. Just to torture Mother. I’m going peruse it...

They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.

The first person I knew who died was Beth March. I cried for three days.

Siblings that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something

He’s my brother, my blood. He annoys the hell out of me most of the time, but when it comes right down to it I want to see him graduate from college and have little...

I would do anything for you. Anything.”With that, he pushed his way out…and as the door eased shut, she realized that I love you could indeed be said without actually uttering the phrase.Actions did mean...

[Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it’s worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family.

For a moment we glared at each other, stubborn as cats on the stable wall, full of mutual resentment and something darker, the old sense between sisters that there is only really room in the...

I’m the oldest of twelve brothers. However, the other eleven are yet to be born.

who knows you better than your own brother?

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,...

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...

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.

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.

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

he is your special friend.

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...

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,...