Listen to Your Sister Quotes

“Wasn't this what siblings, even younger ones, were for? Someone else to see the monster in the closet. The blood on the bed.”
― Neena Viel, Listen to Your Sister

“Jamie knew how to best help women: give them weapons instead of pacifiers.”
― Neena Viel, Listen to Your Sister

“The two years between them was nothing. They squabbled over the same dolls, competed for the same Oreos, memorized the same cartoon openings. Calla was his equal - why was she in charge, exactly? And the things they squabbled over, Christ, it could be a stick. Anything Calla had claimed, Dre took an interest in. Like she made things have value when she touched them.”
― Neena Viel, Listen to Your Sister

“Siblings knew all the weak spots, years passed circling each other, checking for vulnerability.”
― Neena Viel, Listen to Your Sister

“The worst of humanity was overwhelming. Empathy was alarmingly finite, a fistful of jewels gleaming and traded and gone.”
― Neena Viel, Listen to Your Sister

“Trauma didn’t age like wine.”
― Neena Viel, Listen to Your Sister