Oh, Caddy,” said Saffron miserably.”I know. It’s awful. But I’m going. We all should.””It will be so sad.””You have to be sad sometimes,” said Caddy. “Whatever Dad says. He may be right. Granddad probably had...

When we were little, Scarlett and I were utterly convinced that we’d originally been one person in our mother’s belly. We believed that somehow, half of us wanted to be born and half wanted to...

This was our last night. We only had one curtain call, Bree. And I thought they were going to give us a standing ovation, but no-o-o-. Do you know why half the audience stood up?””To...

Eternity has a way of letting us all grow up.

sometimes you need to make a mess.

But what if the monsters come?””Fancy.” Kit looked away from the drama to stare at her sister, surprised. “We are the monsters.

It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women – but he can think of them as he ought – as sisters, not as sparring partners.

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...

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.

There once was a girl who found herself dead.She peered over the ledge of heavenand saw that back on earthher sister missed her too much,was way too sad,so she crossed some pathsthat would not have...

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?

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...

Saffy could tell by the feel of the darkness that Caddy was awake. She said, “Caddy, how far back can you remember?””Oh,” said Caddy, “ages. I can remember when I could only lie flat. On...

And I have to admit that there is something undeniably fulfilling about hunting with Rosie. Somehow, it makes me feel as if the long list of differences between us doesn’t exist. We’re dressed the same,...

I watched, hoping she wouldn’t come out too broke. It’s all you can do for people sometimes, no matter how much you love them.

Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie.

How could she just leave me here to live without her? I miss her so much. I love her. I want her to grow up and become who she was meant to be. I wanted...

The Williams sisters, they have this power. They have this ability to come back from nowhere.

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...

Alice will always be a beautiful mystery. It is one I am content not to solve.I can love her now in her lovely darkness.” -Amalia Milthorpe

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

In photographs of us together, she is always looking at the camera, and I am always looking at her.

Are you watching the boats?” Cornelia guessed. She craned her neck to see if there was any excitement on the river.Heavens no, I’m spying on people,” Virginia responded unrepentantly.-Cornelia E and Virginia Somerset

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

Caddy came home on Friday evening. Perfectly Harmless Patrick brought her in his battered old car…”Crikey, Caddy!” said Indigo, and he disappeared upstairs to tell Rose.Eve murmured, “Sweet,” rather doubtfully.Sarah said, not doubtfully at all,...

I’m starved.” -Juli”How can you be starved? You just ate a huge bowl of popcorn.” -Elspeth”Popcorn isn’t food, it’s popcorn.” -Vicki

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

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...

That’s the difference between you and Greta. She has better things to do. She gets involved in clubs, activities. She has friends. But you? You slump around in that room of yours–

…they who exchange their independence for the sweet name of Wife must be prepared to find all is not gold that glitters……Eş gibi tatlı bir kelime karşılığında özgürlüklerinden vazgeçenler, parlayan her şeyin altın olmadığını görmeye...

Dr. Webb says that losing a sibling is oftentimes much harder for a person than losing any other member of the family. “A sibling represents a person’s past, present, and future,” he says. “Spouses have...

It’s always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.

I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends.

There were once two sisterswho were not afriad of the darkbecause the dark was full of the other’s voiceacross the room,because even when the night was thickand starlessthey walked home together from the riverseeing who...

Depths of Friendship…under fathoms deepof dark and bitter coldan eerie oscillationreverberated brash and bold…

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

Mother is dead.

She’d come running up the driveway and into the kitchen, bringing the spring morning behind her like a trail of hope.

In a way, I was incrediibly proud of her (not that I had any intention of letting it show while I was beating the crap out of her).

I think we should wean Grandma.

There was a flicker of something in Greta’s look. I couldn’t tell whether it was a flicker of love or regret or meanness.

Some people’s glasses are half full. I’m the one drinking them. Some people have forgotten that Pluto is still a planet. I still remember my childhood. Some people are vegans. I have common sense.Some people...

It’s just easier this way because if we’re having a bad time, you still have your sisters. We’re so used to each other. We are sisters and best friends.

When just a kid, moved back to Canada and looking for a taste of England, I’d picked up a book of my Gram’s, a dog-eared romance from the ’sixties about English hospital ‘sisters’ trying to...

We went our several ways,” said Lady Dedlock, “and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped.

You know why I really hated you? With all that you had you were just so oblivious to it all. You didn’t use your beauty. You didn’t ever try to get what you wanted. You...

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...

Ruthie started to cry at Julia’s use of the word “hate,” though Ruthie knew it was true, accurate. For a long time now it had been easier just to hate her sister. Easier to try...

My dear brother and sisters.

Oil and Water, Daddy calls us. At four years younger than me, Katie is only fourteen and she already has half the boys in town eating from her pretty little hand. She tells me I...