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How do people make it through life without a sister?
~ Sara Corpening

Having a sister is like having a best friend you can't get rid of. You know whatever you do, they'll still be there.
~ Amy Li

Sisters share the scent and smells... the feel of a common childhood.
~ Pam Brown

Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
~ Margaret Meed

Sisters are for sharing laughter and wiping tears.
~ Author Unknown

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble.
~ Clara Ortega

A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.
~ Marion C. Garretty

Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of a sister.
~ Alice Walker

You can kid the world. But not your sister.
~ Charlotte Gray

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

What's the good of news if you haven't a sister to share it?
~ Jenny DeVries

Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
~ Margaret Mead

I know some sisters who only see each other on Mother's Day and some who will never speak again. But most are like my sister and me... linked by volatile love, best friends who make other best friends ever so slightly less best.
~ Patricia Volk

Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers.
~ Pam Brown

It was nice growing up with someone like you - someone to lean on, someone to count on... someone to tell on!
~ Author Unknown

Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs - that can undermine any tale you're telling.
~ Pam Brown

One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself.
~ Betsy Cohen

We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school.
~ Charlotte Gray

Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart - oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape - of your sister.
~ Katherine Mansfield

A sister smiles when one tells one's stories - for she knows where the decoration has been added.
~ Chris Montaigne

More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you've been bad and good.
~ Linda Sunshine

My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time.
~ Linda Sunshine

Whatever you do they will love you; even if they don't love you they are connected to you till you die. You can be boring and tedious with sisters, whereas you have to put on a good face with friends.
~ Deborah Moggach

You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories.
~ Deborah Moggach

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, even your shrink. Some days, she's the reason you wish you were an only child.
~ Barbara Alpert

She takes my hand and leads me along paths I would not have dared explore alone.
~ Maya V. Patel

Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.
~ Gail Sheeny, from "Sisters"

A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite.
~ Elizabeth Fishel

Sisters are blossoms in the garden of life.
~ Author Unknown

It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.
~ Pam Brown

My sisters have taught me how to live.
~ George Wasserstein

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