This Is Why Your Sister Is The Best Friend You'll Ever Have

This Is Why Your Sister Is The Best Friend You'll Ever Have

You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you.

Katie MatherOctober 17, 2016

Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.

— Toni Morrison, Beloved

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For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather;
To cheer one on the tedious way,
To fetch one if one goes astray,
To lift one if one totters down,
To strengthen whilst one stands.

— Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems

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You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you.

— George R. R. Martin, A Game Of Thrones

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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: A Novel

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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.

— Lisa See, Shanghai Girls: A Novel

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…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.

— Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.

— Adriana Trigiani, Viola in Reel Life

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

— Toni Morrison, Dance of Freedom and Desire

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Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.

— Jojo Moyes, The Girl You Left Behind

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In photographs of us together, she is always looking at the camera, and I am always looking at her.

— Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

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A young lady's most natural ally is her sister although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean.

— Anna Godbersen, Envy (Luxe, Book 3)

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You are blood. You are sisters. No man can break that bond.

— Kim Boykin, A Peach of a Pair

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So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.

— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

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My sisters grew up with me. They have seen me at my best and at my worst. They know my quirks and insecurities, as well as my weaknesses and best assets. They have witnessed my tears, my failures, my smiles, and my successes. At the end of the day, regardless of my attitude or my mistakes, my sisters still love me relentlessly (and the same is true for the reverse).

— Kelly Joyce, 5 Unexpected Joys Of Having A Sister

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We exist in comparison to each other. Isn’t it strange to have someone else out in the world who for 18 years mostly lived a similar life to you? All your relatives are the same relations to them. All your parents have ever done to you, was probably done to them as well. Or at least, they know about it. They were made with the same ingredients and they can turn out so, so differently. I have friends with sisters who are their replica — like someone took the same parts into a workshop and molded two of a kind.

— Gaby Dunn, How To Be A Sister

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You developed some of the weirdest, craziest, most imaginative games with your sister on long car rides or rainy afternoons. No matter what the circumstances were, you two always found a way to entertain each other, for hours on end.

— Kim Quindlen, 18 Reasons Your Sister Was Your First Real Friend

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