" 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

" Often, in old age, the sisters become each other’s chosen and most happy companions. In addition to their shared memories of childhood and their relationship to each other’s children, they . . . carry the echoes of their mother’s voice. "

- Margaret Mead

" Sisters make the best friends in the world. "

- Marilyn Monroe

" The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend. "

- Cali Rae Turner

" Parents are just parents, brothers are just brothers, best friends are just best friends, even husbands are just husbands, but sisters – well, sisters are the ones to whom sisters always turn in times of joy or trouble, celebration or crisis. "

- Lorraine Bodger

" I’m the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I don’t have anything. It’s hard. I love her too much. That’s what counts. "

- Venus Williams

" Sister. You are not only a strong woman, you are the strongest tie to the best years of my life. "

- Melanie J. Pellowski

" We’ll always fight, but we’ll always make up as well. 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

" Sister you were the one I always told on, now you’re the friend I always lean on. I count my blessings everyday for you. "

- Catherine Pulsifer

" As you’re growing up and you’re close, you can’t trust anyone the way you trust your sister, but also they have the power to wound you in ways no one else really does. "

- Ally Condie

" A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life. "

- Isadora James

" Acquaintances were always on their best behavior, but sisters loved each other enough to say anything. "

- Lauren Weisberger

" There’s nobody in the world that knows me better than my sister. "

- Tia Mowry

" Sisters are best friends, they are advisors, they are teachers, and best of all they are people with whom you can talk with about anything – someone you have a special bond with! "

- Catherine Pulsifer

" You can kid the world, but not your sister. "

- Charlotte Gray

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

- Toni Morrison

" She’s always there for me when I need her; She’s my best friend; she’s just my everything. "

- Ashley Olsen

" A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost. "

- Marion Garretty

" I could never love anyone as I love my sisters. "

- Little Women film adaptation (1994) writer

" She is my sounding board, my confidante, my keeper of secrets – and my best friend. "

- Kathleen O’Keefe