My Sister Quotes - Page 8

• She told me if I clean all the ashes out of the grate, then I’ll be able to help my sisters get ready for the bal.” “It’s Christmas, Dashiel. Can’t you give that atitude a rest?” “Merry Christmas, Dad. And thanks for the presents.” “What presents?” “I’m sorry—those were all from Mom, weren’t they?

  Rachel Cohn

  Mom, Sorry, Dad

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• I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.

  Khalil Gibran

  Lonely, Strong, Brother

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• I learned respect for womanhood from my father's tender caring for my mother, my sister, and his sisters. Father was the first to arise from dinner to clear the table. My sister and I would wash and dry the dishes each night at Father's request. If we were not there, Father and Mother would clean the kitchen together.

  Robert D. Hales

  Sister, Mother, Respect

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• I was this young boy and I saw this man with his hands round my sister's neck, I was just standing there with her two children beside me... Everything I've done since then was for the purpose of making women look stronger, not naïve. And so, when everyone started saying I was a misogynist, that really freaked me out. They didn't know me. They didn't know what I had seen in my life. That was the first part of fashion that I hated - people labeling me without knowing me.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Children, Men

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• I am surrounded by counselors. My sister is a counselor. My daughter is training to be a counselor. A lot of my friends are counselors.

  Sue Townsend

  Daughter, Mother, Training

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• For the record, I love my sister. But she is dead wrong on the marriage issue.

  Mary Cheney

  Gay, Issues, Records

  "Top 10 PR Blunders of 2013" by Rich Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2013.

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• I had to have my first kiss in front of, like, a hundred people. I didn't know what to do. So my sisters told me to, like, practice on a pillow, you know? But it didn't kiss me back so I didn't know what to expect.

  Lacey Chabert

  Kissing, Practice, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't know what I'm supposed to do now. I know other people have it a lot worse. I do know that, but it's crashing in anyway, and I just can't stop thinking that the little kid eating french fries with his mom in the shopping mall is going to grow up and my sister.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Mom, Growing Up, Kids

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• If you married me,it would be scandalous and innapropriate, and doors would be closed to you." "Good God, woman, I let two of my sisters marry Gypsies. Those doors have already been closed, bolted, and nailed shut.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Doors, Two, Would Be

  Lisa Kleypas (2013). “The Hathaways Complete Series: Mine Till Midnight, Seduce Me at Sunrise, Tempt Me at Twilight, Married by Morning, and Love in the Afternoon”, p.1378, Macmillan

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• The trees like lungs filling with air. My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Mean, Hair, Tree

  "Fictional character: Cecilia Lisbon". "The Virgin Suicides", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• "I hate you." My sister said it different than she said it to my dad. She meant it with me.She really did. "I love you," was all I could say in return. "You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have." "I'm trying not to be.” Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Dad, Hate, Love You

  "The Perks of Being a Wallflower". Book by Stephen Chbosky, February 1, 1999.

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• What, are you like Buffy or something? A vampire slayer?” I wish. “No, but my sister is. And my boyfriend’s a vampire so I know a lot about their kind.” Jayden shrinks back from me, wide-eyed. “No, no. He’s one of the good ones. Not all vampires are evil,” I assure him. “So…you’re dating…Edward Cullen.” “Sure, if you have to relate it all to a Stephenie Meyer book,” I grudgingly agree. “But don’t say that to Magnus’s face. He’s a card-carrying member of Team Jacob. Even has the T-shirt.

  Mari Mancusi

  Team, Book, Evil

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• We children sat transfixed before that moon our mother had called forth from the waters. When the moon had reached its deepest silver, my sister, Savannah, though only three, cried aloud to our mother, to Luke and me, to the river and the moon, "Oh, Mama, do it again!" And I had my earliest memory.

  Pat Conroy

  Mother, Children, Memories

  Pat Conroy (2016). “The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection”, p.759, Open Road Media

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• Thank you, Wanda. My sister. I will never forget you. Be happy, Mel. Enjoy it all. Appreciate it for me.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Appreciate, Never Forget, Forget You

  "The Host". Book by Stephenie Meyer, May 6, 2008.

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• Were you hugging Clary?" He looked at Sebastian in amazement. Sebastian shrugged. "She's my sister. I'm pleased to see her." "You don't hug people," Jace said. "I ran out of time to bake a casserole.

  Cassandra Clare

  People, Hug, Jace

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt.

  Chuck Nevitt

  Funny, Sports, Baby

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• You trust him, Trace, and you know it." "With my back," Trace snapped. "Not with my sister.

  Lori Foster

  Knows

  Lori Foster (2011). “Savor the Danger”, p.55, HQN Books

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• Yes. I was looking for Lettie. They were both very kind to me,” Percival said, “Even though they’d never seen me before. And Wizard Howl kept visiting to court Lettie. Lettie didn’t want him, and she asked me to bite him to get rid of him, until Howl suddenly began asking her about you and—“ “what?” he said, “ I know someone called sophie who looks a little like you.. And Lettie said, that’s my sister,’ without thinking,” Percival said. “ And she got terribly worried then, particularly as Howl went on asking about her sister.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Thinking, Want Him, Looks

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• My dad said to me the other day, I really am an artistic person. I was shocked as I never saw him as a creative. I think me and my sisters are living out that side of him as my sister is another creative person, she's a songwriter.

  Robert Pattinson

  Family, Friends, Dad

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• The whole size zero debate is disgusting. My sister, who's 13, looks amazing - but she's already worried about her figure.

  Billie Piper

  Zero, Looks, Size

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• I will never be without information,' she determined. 'I will do better than my sisters. If a bird or any other beast comes out of that uncanny republic where husbands are grown, I will see him with his skin off before I agree to fall in love.' For this is how Marya Morevna surmised that love was shaped: an agreement, a treaty between two nations that one could either sign or not as they pleased.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Falling In Love, Husband, Two Nations

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.24, Macmillan

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• As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better." "Or worse," said Liraz. "Yes," he conceded. "Usually worse." Hazael cut in. "My sister, Sunshine, and my brother, Light. You two should rally the ranks. You'll have us killing ourselves by morning.

  Laini Taylor

  Morning, Brother, Sunshine

  Laini Taylor (2015). “The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.480, Hachette UK

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• Any chance of getting something sweet to go with my coffee?” [Finn] asked in a hopeful voice. I arched an eyebrow at him. “You mean all those pieces of strawberry pie that you ate for lunch weren't enough?” “I’m a growing boy,” Finn said in a sincere tone. “I need my vitamins.” Bria snorted. “The only thing that’s growing on you, Lane, is your ego.” Finn sidled up to my sister and gave her a dazzling smile. “Well, other things of mine also tend to swell up in your presence, detective.

  Jennifer Estep

  Sweet, Coffee, Mean

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• How did you do that?” Mr. Poe asked. “Nice girls shouldn’t know how to do such things.” “My sister is a nice girl,” Klaus said, “and she knows how to do all sorts of things.

  Daniel Handler

  Girl, Nice, Said

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• So. You’re saying my sister’s dressed like a prostitute

  Richelle Mead

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.187, Penguin

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