#sister

If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say. ↗

— Peter Welch

#best #best way #brother #father #found

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#both #goodness #heart #hold #must

Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#happiness #loser #sisterhood #life

For me being the youngest, there was never ever anything that was an issue to cause rivalry between me and my sisters. ↗

— Nicole Appleton

#being #between #cause #ever #issue

Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love. (MU Article, 2010) ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#bad-choices #decisions #family #friendship #hindsight

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#full #i #i do #know #like

You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#going #sister #tell #you #your

I wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic. ↗

— Nick Carter

#complicated #dynamic #family #funeral #had

My father's sister never married in order to raise me. ↗