Sibling Relationships Quotes

“Often the right path is the one that may be hardest for you to follow. But the hard path is also the one that will make you grow as a human being.”
― Karen Mueller Coombs, Bully at Ambush Corner

“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, by far. I tell her as much as I can.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Grow up, Bailey."

"That is precisely what I'm doing," Bailey says. "I don't care if you don't understand that. Staying here won't make me happy. It will make you happy because you're insipid and boring, and an insipid, boring life is enough for you. It's not enough for me. It will never be enough for me. So I'm leaving. Do me a favor and marry someone who will take decent care of the sheep.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“I’m proud of you, son,” he said. “I guess it has finally sunk in that it’s important to stand up for yourself in this world.”
Rocky shook his head. “It’s more important to stand up for someone who can’t stand up for herself,” he had answered.
Rocky Ryan speaking with his father.”
― Karen Mueller Coombs, Bully at Ambush Corner

“Similar to siblings, French Fries all stem from the same family, the potato family. Yet each and every one is different. A different shape, a different flavor, a different purpose, etc. Now, despite all these differences, each French fry in the batch will share a similar origin story. However, the outcome will be unique. The point is to have patience with your sibling French fry and realize that life imprints differently on each and every one of us. Some of us will be salty, some of us will be peppered, but in the end we are all just trying to catch up.”
― Hannah Hart

“My mother says we’re supposed to make mistakes. That’s the way we learn.” Rocky Ryan in Bully At Ambush Corner.”
― Karen Mueller Coombs

“It never dawned on us that life is unpredictable, that one day, one of us could suddenly cease to exist and what then? What would be the joy in having left so much unsaid? With what memories would we fill the empty silence?”
― Isabel Lopez, Isabel's Hand-Me-Down Dreams

“Life is a chain of choices. Making the correct one is never easy.”
“That’s for sure,” agreed Rocky.
“But if we didn’t make difficult choices, right or wrong,” said Mr. Veraldi, “we wouldn’t learn anything worth knowing." Rocky Ryan and his viola teacher, Mr. Veraldi, in Bully at Ambush Corner.”
― Karen Mueller Coombs, Bully at Ambush Corner

“Who can you trust if not your sister? Who knows your story better than she? If you saw one Owens sister at the grocery, the other would be right beside her. If one was working in the garden, making certain the rows of herbs were weeded, her sister would be there as well, carrying a basket to collect the dandelion greens.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“The love of siblings is the most unconditional love of all. It is pure and loyal. A love without demand, without expectations or pretense.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad

“The forgotten siblings become distant strangers”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Why are your siblings so important to you? Because I came into this world a sibling, they were my first friends, the first persons I fought with, the first persons who taught me forgiveness, the ones who activated my protective instincts, the first persons to love me unconditionally apart from my parents. They are also the most cherished gifts that my parents gave to me.”
― Tilicia Haridat

“Our friends are siblings we discover, while our siblings are friends gifted to us by fate.”
― John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“I grew taller that day. Or maybe it was that my soul, rose-petal voice size, trying to make enoughroom to hold him within it”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

“Three years ago!” he yelled, and all of the emotion seemed to hit at once. “You sent me one letter in four years, Dinar! And I defended you! I defended you to all of them – Mother, Father, Tomaas, even the other families in Parejon that came asking. I told them you were well and happy and doing great, important things. Convinced them it was all for the best. But I have no idea why, because you hurt me worst of all.”
― Allyson S. Barkley, A Vision in Smoke

“Why had it taken finally seeing her again for him to realize just how much it had hurt watching her leave?”
― Allyson S. Barkley, A Vision in Smoke

“You have always looked at me like I hang the cursed stars in the sky and that was sweet when we were young – but now, Ely, it’s too hard! It is too hard to be perfect for you because when I am wrong you assume that I meant to hurt you – that it was all part of the plan because I am too smart and too good to do something badly.”
― Allyson S. Barkley, A Vision in Smoke

“The only one you protected was yourself,” he snapped, the words choking out before he could stop them.

“Yes,” Dinar hissed back. “I did protect myself.” Something dark and angry flickered in her eyes. “It was about damn time I learned to do that.”
― Allyson S. Barkley, A Vision in Smoke

“Was she the one who had changed, or had he? Or had both of them stayed too much the same in a world that was shifting faster and faster around them? Maybe they were too old to be what they had been. The problem, Ely thought, was that he wasn’t quite sure what they were supposed to be now.”
― Allyson S. Barkley, A Vision in Smoke

“I have always expected too much from you. But I think you also expected too much from me. I thought you could not make mistakes. You thought I would always understand. Would never feel hurt. But, Deen, sometimes people don’t understand unless you make them. Sometimes you have to take the time and explain yourself.”
― Allyson S. Barkley, A Vision in Smoke

“I knew it would take more than a bomb to get rid of you.”
― A.J. Sky, Firestorm

“I can't remember the last time I had fun with Sudhir the way brothers and sisters do.”
― Anahita Karthik, All I Have Left

“Strained Relations by Stewart Stafford

Brother, you have flown from me,
Too often and to that blinding maze,
As capricious as the wind that blows,
No visible shared blood between us.

Are you not my mother's and father's son?
If the fault lies with me, then tell me so,
Or let the bloodied bandage fall from you,
So the wound heals without reinfection.

You picked prized strangers over family,
More damaging self-flagellation as hubris,
They let you down as parents an infant,
Still, you chose a messy path of pain.

The only glimmer of light in the next life,
Is we two reuniting together again, brother,
Or shall you flee to fellow astral travellers?
A last dagger thrust in the permafrost cold?

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“As to not bestir Joseph, who was fast asleep and snoring, Nellie softly said to him, “You know . . . their departure is rather bittersweet,” she whispered. “I left my siblings. Ma and pa left them. Then my siblings left to find us. Now they have left us so they may find themselves.” Nellie let out a soft chuckle. “Funny how life is.”
― LAURA LANGDON, Nobody's Bride: A Nellie Bishop Romance

“It's not an accident of birth that made you my sister. You're my sister because you took the blame for that pie we stole from the cook when you were three.”
― Melanie Cellier, The Princess Pact: a Twist on Rumpelstiltskin

“–it was nice to have someone cheering wholeheartedly for him the way that only a sibling could.”
― Jenelle Leanne Schmidt, The Orb and the Airship

“You're like a brother to me."

Lewis felt his fins tingle as a light flickered on in him, his retired boyhood wish for a sibling coming to life.

"You're like a sister to me," Lewis echoed, realizing as he said it that few things had ever felt so true.”
― Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

“Setahuku, kaum kakak biasanya paling segalanya, pemarah, dan menyebalkan. Ketika sedang jalan berdua antara kakak beradik, lihat saja yang tubuhnya lebih pendek. Itu pasti kakaknya. Sudah banyak kutemukan - Piring Bahagia Si dan Bi”
― Dian Pertiwi Josua

“There is a scene I love where a brother and sister meet after many years and little communication. They meet in an arranged café in mid-afternoon. The light is dying and the city outside rumbles softly in the complacent time before rush hour. The café is unexceptional and quiet. She comes first, sits at the far end, a table facing the door, nervous in her buttoned raincoat. The waiter is an older man. He leaves her be. The brother enters late with the look but not the words of apology. He kisses her cheek. They sit and the old man brings them teas they do not want, two pots, strong for him weak for her. It is long ago since they said each other’s names aloud, and saying them now has the extraordinary shyness of encounter I imagine on the Last Day. At first there is the full array of human awkwardness. But here is the thing: almost in an instant their old selves are immediately present. The years and the changes are nothing. They need few words. They recognise each other in each other, and even in silence the familiarity is powerfully consoling, because despite time and difference there remains that deep-river current, that kind of maybe communion that only exists within people joined in the word family. So now what washes up between them, foam-white and fortifying and quite unexpectedly, is love. I cannot remember what book it is in. But it’s in this one now.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

“To all the second-favorite children biding their time. Our day will come.”
― Colleen Oakes, The Second Favorite Daughter's Club