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“The quiet in the room felt to Nora like a precarious kind of quiet that might at any second be shattered by an outburst of unbearable emotion and violence.”

Book:The Bog Wife

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“Once she finished scuffling with her brothers, Arnaaluk yawned, resting her haunches in the grass. As she looked to the rising sun following the short summer night, Kiviaq huddled next to her. The two wolves gazed on the stunning panorama. Closeness beamed over them like the warmth of the sun's rays on a cool morning.”

Sunrise Sibling Relationships

Book:The Yukon Wolf

Source: The Yukon Wolf

“My heart raced as we landed in the new world of Africa. We had finally arrived in Uganda to bring my new sister, Josie-Mae, home to the U.S.”

Sibling Relationships Adoption Story Fight To Forward

Book:The Fight to Forward: A Novel

Source: The Fight to Forward: A Novel

“Thanks for not talking with your fists,” I said. I have a little sister, and I’m not sure I’d be as understanding with any of her boyfriends. “I’ve seen you fight,” he said, turning. “It would’ve been a terribly short conversation.”

Humor Sibling Relationships

Book:Necromancing the Stone

Source: Necromancing the Stone

“Rose leaned against the bathroom door. Here it was — her real life, the truth of who she was, barreling down on her like a bus with bad brakes. Here was the truth — she wasn’t the kind of person Jim could fall in love with. She wasn’t what she’d made herself out to be — a cheerful, uncomplicated girl, a normal girl with a happy, orderly life, a girl who wore pretty shoes and had nothing more pressing on her mind that whether ER was a rerun this week. The truth was in the exercise tape she didn’t have time to unwrap, let alone exercise to; the truth was her hairy legs and ugly underwear. Most of all, the truth was her sister, her gorgeous, messed-up, fantastically unhappy and astoundingly irresponsible sister.”

Family Family Relationships Siblings Sibling Relationships

Book:In Her Shoes

Source: In Her Shoes

“Wyatt told me once that if tenderness were a disease, I’d be terminal.”

Grief Tenderness Glass Girl Sibling Relationships

Book:Glass Girl

Source: Glass Girl

“Baby, I bear remnants of you on my body, on my soul. I always have, I always will, gladly. I just want you to know that.’ ('Left from Dhakeshwari')”

Siblings Sibling Relationships

Author:Kunal Sen

“Yeah, and we could fly in on dragons and release a cloud of sugar plum fairies to tiptoe in an get the watch.”

Plans Sarcasm Sibling Relationships

Book:Twisted Arrangement

Source: Twisted Arrangement

“You don't need great faith to move mountains, you only need to use the poor faith you say you have.”

Inspirational Faith

Author:Neil Velez

“The truth is, sometimes siblings have nothing in common but blood...Sometimes you stay up late at night, thinking things that make you feel like a heartless monster, wishing for something different and then feeling sick with guilt because you know what the cost of "different" would be...There's a difference between having no siblings and having a broken one.”

Change Cost Family Love Heartless Sibling Relationships

Book:A World Without You

Source: A World Without You

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