7,080 Quotes About Family

it is strangehowsisterscanbesaviorsorstrangers& sometimesa bit of both.

No matter what, they always had each other. How did people get through life without sisters?

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

I contemplated the phone for some time. Never had I heard her so oddly gay and forthright; as a matter of fact, we hadn't discussed sex since adolescence. Her entire inner life was secretive and mysterious, and no one dared violate it. She sent out powerful "No Trespassing" signals and I had learned to honor them. It crossed my mind that my sister was drunk.

After all, Betty was ill and she was her sister, and she wouldn't be able to shave her legs for weeks because of the plaster.

Between Barton and Delaford, there was that constant communication which strong family affection would naturally dictate;—and 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, or producing coolness between their husbands.

She had a weird, fleeting thought that she wanted to eat her sister, like a sorceress in a storybook – gobble her down into her belly, keep her safe.

Eternity has a way of letting us all grow up.

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.