No matter how many years passed or how much responsibility each assumed, they still managed to bicker like bitchy teenagers on a regular basis. In some way, though, each found it comforting; it reminded them how close they really were: Acquaintances were always on their best behavior, but sisters loved each other enough to say anything.
And I felt closer to you. Because you knew me so much better than I'd realised – and still loved me.
I'm not going anywhere,' she told me that night. But until we are old ladies – a cypress age, a Sawtooth age – I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of love.
…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.
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
The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face.
What, then, must we do? We must love one another dearly, and help one another.
May, I love you with everything I am. For so long, I just wanted to be like you. But I had to figure out that I am someone too, and now I can carry you, your heart with mine, everywhere I go.
Grow up, my sister said after she took a bite of Grape-Nuts that she had shaken salt on, knowing I had put sugar in the shaker, but actually I had switched it back so it really was salt in the shaker. Grow Up.
I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the same share of love. But being a mother is completely different. You want your child to have more than you ever did. You want to build a fire underneath her and watch her soar. It's bigger than words.
You’re still my sister. You always will be.
No matter where we are, we’ll always share the same sky. We can always find each other in the same constellation.