33 Quotes About Sibling-rivalry
- Author Christina Westover
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The more you love,the more love you have to give.It's the only feeling we have which is infinite...
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- Author Jonathan Goldstein
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When he heard his father call out for Abel and he saw his borther go forth, it made him feel like he was nothing. He couldn’t even say that he felt like Cain anymore. One could not feel like Cain because it had no flavor. Cain was the absence of flavor. Cain was like saliva or a Wednesday.
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- Author Anthony Marra
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Even after Sonja graduated secondary school at the top of her class and matriculated to the city university biology department, their parents found more to love in Natasha. Sonja's gifts were too complex to be understood, and therefore less desirable.
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- Author Victoria Secunda
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One only has to watch aging siblings scrap over the worthless pots and pans and scuffed furniture of a deceased parent's estate- like toddlers over toys- to see how desperate is the need to wrest some last, pathetic, tangible measure of their parent's devotion.
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- Author Stewart Stafford
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The eldest child is the golden one, the middle child invisible, and the youngest child is loud.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents.
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- Author Ali Harper
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Why don’t you just go run to your room and cry little girl or better yet kill yourself?” Cora spat out ferociously. “Oh honey, if I was going to kill myself I’d do it right here out of spite just to see you get down on your knees and wash the blood off the tiles and haunt your ass til kingdom come.” Sienna spat back with even more ferocity.
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- Author Madeline C.C. Harper
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Alec was always Aunt Mathilda’s favorite, but I was my Aunt Florence’s. We used to feed swans together in the lake behind Chrysemfell.
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- Author Erica Sehyun Song
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The last image I registered was Ethan and my hand – linked, bound and unbreakable.
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