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“Sisters share a bond unlike any other – thornier, but also tender, full of possibility.”

Book:Blood Water Paint

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“I don’t care,” Nevada said. “I want blue lilacs.” And I want to fly away from here, but that wouldn’t happen anytime soon, would it? “Anyway, I have to get back to the office,” Nevada said. “Text me if anything.” “The queen has dismissed us,” Arabella announced. I dropped into a deep curtsy. “Your Majesty.” “I hate you guys.” “We hate you back,” Arabella told her. “We hated you before the wedding.” “Before it was cool to hate you.” “Get out!” Nevada growled.”

Wedding Sisters Nevada Baylor Bridezilla

Book:Diamond Fire

Source: Diamond Fire

“The loss of her is already too much and then there’s the other thing – the end of being loved in the way only my sister could love me. What I feel for her survives and that hurts like battery acid every minute, but worse is that what she felt for me died with her. I will never be loved like that again.”

Grief Sisters

Book:An Isolated Incident

Source: An Isolated Incident

“Sisters are reliably good for two things: hating and loving.”

Sisters

Book:The Favorite Sister

Source: The Favorite Sister

“There is a language every sister knows, a language tender beyond words and rarely spoken. It runs like a string between two hearts, and we only pluck that string in times of trouble. This night [...] we speak as sisters.”

Sisters Rare Languages

Book:Refuge for Masterminds

Source: Refuge for Masterminds

“Together, we travel the living river. We turn our faces to the sunlight and fly time and time again home to Kingdom Arcadia.”

Children Fiction Historical Fiction Sisters Orphanage

Book:Before We Were Yours

Source: Before We Were Yours

“When it comes to sisters, it seems one stays and one goes, one remains bound and the other is set free. She is who she is in good part because of who Gloria isn't. In order to be herself, in order to be different from her sister, she had to take what was left over, the opposite, unchosen road. She is both glad and furious about it.”

Sisters Sister Deb Caletti The Secrets She Keeps

Book:The Secrets She Keeps

Source: The Secrets She Keeps

“Arabella did not need backup. Most of the time she was the backup, the field artillery, and the air support, but Nevada taught me to always have an exit strategy.”

Humor Sisters

Book:Diamond Fire

Source: Diamond Fire

“Hold on," Marjan said, reaching behind a tin of pistachio nougats. She found the bottle, unscrewing the cap as her back was turned to her sisters. She upended it, letting the rosewater, the priceless tears of that queen of blossoms, pool in her cupped hand. She turned back to Bahar and smiled. "Better late than never," she said, showering her sister with a brand-new day.”

Sisters New Day Rosewater Marjan Aminpour Bahar Aminpour

Book:Rosewater and Soda Bread

Source: Rosewater and Soda Bread

“But now she regarded her sister with curious distance. She'd been so actively excluded from everything important to her she felt suddenly, intensely alone.”

Lonely Sisters

Book:American Tango

Source: American Tango

“They seem like a different race to me and I make sure never to get into disagreements with them, because any puny thing I say gets dashed on the rocks of their robust, shouty certainty.”

Sisters Family Relationships Sisterhood Opinionated Pushy Timid

Book:Anybody Out There?

Source: Anybody Out There?

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