#sister

Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simply say, "Here are the perimeters of our attention. If you prowl around under the windows till the crickets go silent, we will pull the shades. If you wish us to suffer your envious curiosity, you must permit us not to notice it." Anyone with one solid human bond is that smug, and it is the smugness as much as the comfort and safety that lonely people covet and admire. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#friend #loneliness #relationships #safety #sister

No hatred ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

#corrie-quotes-her-sister #hatred

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke . . . She will need her sisterhood. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#sisterhood #women #feminism

if you tell yourself you feel fine, you will. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#positive-thinking #positive-thinking

Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#jo #law-of-contraries #secret #sisters #louisa-may-alcott

You mess with my sister, you're messing with me! ↗

— Loretta Livingstone

#siblings #sisters #life

...grief is loved turned into an eternal missing. ...It can't be contained in hours or days or minutes. ↗

— Rosamund Lupton

#missing #rosamund-lupton #sister #love

May and I are sisters. We'll always fight, but we'll always make up as well. That's what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other's frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we've had since childhood, and then we come back together. Until the next time. ↗

— Lisa See

#sisters #love

You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#evil #get #good #must #out

Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#bishops #bless #may #sister #sons