"If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?"
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

"Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be."
— Toni Morrison (Beloved)

"Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life."
— Charles M. Schulz

"Maybe if you spend all your life pretending you're on a movie set, you don't ever have to admit that the walls are made of paper and the food is plastic and the words in your mouth aren't really yours."
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

"Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy."
— Ann Brashares (The Second Summer of the Sisterhood)

"When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always."
— Alice Hoffman

"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 (Shanghai Girls)

"She is your mirror, shining back at you with a world of possibilities. She is your witness, who sees you at your worst and best, and loves you anyway. She is your partner in crime, your midnight companion, someone who knows when you are smiling, even in the dark. She is your teacher, your defense attorney, your personal press agent. She is your sister."
— Barbara Alpert

"A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double."
— Toni Morrison

"Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer."
— Louise Glück

"We hug, but there are no tears. For every awful thing that's been said and done, she is my sister. Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life. She is the only person left in the world who shares my memories of our childhood, our parents, our Shanghai, our struggles, our sorrows, and, yes, even our moments of happiness and triumph. My sister is the one person who truly knows me, as I know her. The last thing May says to me is 'When our hair is white, we'll still have our sister love.'"
— Lisa See (Shanghai Girls)

""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

"Haven't you heard the saying 'absence makes the heart grow fonder'?" - Emily
"Haven't you heard the saying 'SHUT UP'?" - Martha"
— Emily and Martha Maxwell

"I love letters from little kids. Adults never proclaim themselves 'your #1 fan!'"
— Lauren Baratz-Logsted

"robert pattison...oh he's just scary...any one who could look at that face and fall in love has to be and idiot!"
— joy siffee

""Are you watching the boats?" Cornelia guessed. She craned her neck to see if there was any excitement on the river.
"Heavens no, I'm spying on people," Virginia responded unrepentantly.
-Cornelia E and Virginia Somerset"
— Lesley M.M. Blume (Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters)

"It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister."
— William Faulkner (The Sound and the Fury)