#sisters

When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#family #fiction #love #the-story-sisters #family

Oil and Water, Daddy calls us. At four years younger than me, Katie is only fourteen and she already has half the boys in town eating from her pretty little hand. She tells me I am too tall and too wicked looking to capture the heart of any sensible young man. ↗

— Gwenn Wright

#filter #historical-fiction #sisters #suspense #von-strassenberg

Sisters, as you know, also have a unique relationship. This is the person who has known you your entire life, who should love you and stand by you no matter what, and yet it's your sister who knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt you the most. ↗

— Lisa See

#sisters #life

But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it’s because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, “When you love life, you go to the movies,” it’s false! It’s exactly the opposite: when you don’t love life, or when life doesn’t give you satisfaction, you go to the movies. ↗

— François Truffaut

#cinema #neurotics #life

For there is no friend like a sister In calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#help #love #sisters #love

Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other. ↗

— Carol Saline

#sisters

You can make it dark, but I can't make it light. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#jodi-picoult #light #my-sister-s-keeper #sisters

Bootie Grant Glover! You do amaze me!" Mem stared at her sister. "Do I understand this? You're giving me permission to engage in a romantic tryst?" "Certainly not!" Bootie pulled to her full diminished height. "I'm merely saying if disaster strikes, I won't abandon you. ↗

— Maggie Osborne

#permission #sisters #tryst #men

A young lady's most natural ally is her sister although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#sisters #nature

Solidarity was admirable; loyalty was the person standing next to you when the devil came to call. ↗

— Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

#loyalty #sisters-sibling-rivalry #historical-fiction