My Sister Quotes - Page 15

• My sister was like my surrogate mother here, in Washington, with very much of the same persuasions as my mother. Even when friends came from home that I knew were more socially adaptable to the mores of the time, she would always caution me and say, "Be careful if you're going out with so and so because you know such and such a thing could happen." It was that kind of guardianship, and concern that imprinted me.

  David C. Driskell

  Mother, Home, Going Out

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Parent, Wish, Going Away

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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• And what did you do last night, Dexter? Oh, I played with my dolls while a friend chopped up my sister.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Night, Dolls, Lasts

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.189, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Then one day my sister abandoned me at the 1939 World's Fair, and that incident is the essence of In the Night Kitchen. I was standing there with hundreds of other people waving back at the little midgets dressed like bakers when I turned around and my sister was gone! The next thing I know I'm screaming and crying and policemen are taking me to a big place with tons of kids who had all been abandoned like me. At least I was old enough to give them a name and an address.

  Maurice Sendak

  Kids, Night, Essence

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• My sister had her own room. She also had innumerable boyfriends. I had a yo-yo collection that was beyond belief, and the reason I had it was mostly that I would stand in the doorway of the living room watching her and her boyfriend. Finally she caught on how to get this kid out of the way. Give him a yo-yo!

  Maurice Sendak

  Kids, Giving, Doorways

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I had lost my sister recently, too, which meant that my whole family was gone. I was the baby of the family. There were five Sendaks and there were five Wild Things, and now there's only one Sendak, and he's about to bite the dust, too! Life, as I said before, was very difficult at that time and so it was natural that there would be a change in the look of things. Also, I was very impressed with my own strength in doing this under the circumstances in which I was living.

  Maurice Sendak

  Baby, Dust, Would Be

  Source: www.hbook.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 had health insurance; she should have been warned by her doctors that she was at risk. But she was a minority. The doctors took little interest in her as an individual, and she fell through the cracks. And died.

  Robin Lim

  Doctors, Should Have, Risk

  "An Interview With Robin Lim | CNN Woman of The Year". Interview with Polly Armstrong, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My relationship with my sister is so central to my life. She's my closest friend, my biggest supporter, and I know she would say the same about me.

  Emily Giffin

  Knows, Closest Friends, Supporter

  "Emily Giffin Talks Life, Relationships, and Her New Novel, First Comes Love". Interview with Laura Marie Meyers, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.

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• I think it killed my sister as the times she was living in were so conformist. This is a subject I really want to deal with. I want to start making films about female rage.

  Nan Goldin

  Thinking, Female, Want

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• These novels [Zombie, My Sister, My Love] are so special to me. [I don't expect that they will have nearly the same significance to anyone else.] They represent a kind of fiction I would love to pursue more or less constantly, but dare not.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Zombie, Special, Fiction

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• I wonder what it felt to move to a country where you didn't grow up. I had thought about that often since my sister got married. Do you become a character in a story native to that land, or do you, somewhere in your heart, want to return to your homeland.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Country, Growing Up, Moving

  Banana Yoshimoto (1995). “N.P.: A Novel”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• We get an apartment together, and after a whirlwind courtship you marry my sister and honeymoon in Vegas.

  Eoin Colfer

  Vegas, Together, Honeymoon

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• Alex kneels down to Shelley's level. The simple act of respect tears at something suspiciously like my heart. Colin always ignores my sister, treating her as if she's blind and deaf as well as physically and mentally disabled.

  Simone Elkeles

  Heart, Simple, Tears

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• Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look of? It is half real and half pretense - and I have an idea that it is a game most girls play when they meet an eligible young men. They just...wonder.

  Dodie Smith

  Girl, Real, Men

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• Oh, good lord, Jeff. Don't go getting all emotional on me. I've been getting it from my mom, my dad, my sister, the freaking MAILMAN--I don't need it from you, too. All I ask is that you promise me one thing.' 'What?' 'Just water the plants while I'm gone, all right?' 'You don't have plants, Tad.' 'I know. I just always wanted to say that.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Mom, Dad, Emotional

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• My sister, who never understood most of the things I wanted her to, might have been able to understand what had happened to me in this summer of weddings and beginnings. And she was right. The first boy was always the hardest.

  Sarah Dessen

  Summer, Boys, Might

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “That Summer”, p.198, Penguin

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• You’re my sister,” he said finally. “My sister, my blood, my family. I should want to protect you”—he laughed soundlessly and without any humor—“to protect you from the sort of boys who want to do with you exactly what I want to do.

  Cassandra Clare

  Boys, Blood, Want

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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