Quotes About Family

We are sisters, and there's nothing she or I can ever say or do to change that.

It still feels weird to spend money on Christmas trees. Back when Mom was alive, we'd go out "tree hunting." That's what she called it, anyway. I think other people might use the word "trespassing.

Christmas isn't Christmas without your white-chocolate cranberry cookies

I could never be with someone who didn't understand how important my family is to me. When

My mom adored her. She called Belly her secret daughter. She looked forward to seeing her all year. Steven, even though he gave her a hard time, he was really protective of her. Everyone took care of Belly, she just didn't know it. She was too busy looking at Conrad.

My sister is coming back in a few weeks. And I have a fake boyfriend I just cheated on.

I thought he was kind of a dick too, but I didn't say so. You're not supposed to join in when someone is bashing his father.

Under the blanket I find Margot's hand and link my pinky with hers. "Sister swear.

So maybe she's got a little bit of me in her after all. Kitty continues. "We could put red food coloring in the syrup, too, to make it look like blood. A bloody heart!" No, never mind. Kitty is all her own.

I didn't think of it as lying. I thought of it as playing make-believe. I told Kitty she was adopted and her real family was in a travelling circus. It's why she took up gymnastics

I know most sisters don't get along, but I'm closer to Margot than I am to anybody in the world. How can we be the Song girls without Margot?

But then she says, "What if we use our cookie cutter to make heart-shaped pancakes instead? And put in red food coloring?" I beam at her. "Attagirl!" So maybe she's got a little bit of me in her after all. Kitty continues. "We could put red food coloring in the syrup, too, to make it look like blood. A bloody heart!

There is a specific kind of fight you can only have with your sister.

Daddy tips my chin. Firmly he says, "I would be nowhere without her, because I wouldn't have my girls.

I shush him. He crosses his arms. "I don't get why you guys get to talk during movies and I get shushed. It's pretty bullshit." "It's our house," Kitty says. "Your sister shushes me at my house too!" We ignore him in unison.

I don't want them to have another baby. If they have a baby, I'll be in the middle. I'll be nothing." "Hey!" I object. "I'm in the middle now!

When we pull up in my driveway, Kitty runs out of the house and over to the car. "Spider-Man!" she shrieks. She's still in her ninja costume, though she's taken the mask off. "Are you coming inside?" I glance at Peter. "He can't. He has to go condition." Peter spends an hour a day conditioning for lacrosse. He's very dedicated to it. "Condition?" Kitty repeats, and I know she's imagining Peter washing his hair.

I really wish Kitty were more of a reader like Margot and me.

Jag slog näven i vattnet. Fan ta honom. Det här är en sak mellan mig och Belly. Den självbelåtne jäveln. Han skulle gifta sig med min tjej och jag kunde inte göra någonting åt det. Jag kunde bara stå och titta på, eftersom han var min bror, eftersom jag lovat. Ta hand om honom, Connie. Jag litar på dig.

But I also just wish I could have a hug from my mom on my graduation day.

Love. He said "love." I feel dizzy. I am a girl who is loved, by a boy, and not just her sisters and father and dog.

Song girls have an unspoken pact: to make life as easy as possible for Daddy.

Susannah wanted it to be some kind of perfect summer, where parents were still together and everything was the way it had always been. Those kind of summers don't exist anymore, I wanted to tell her.

Peter's mom told me he was talking about transferring to UNC next year. She wanted me to break up with him before he messed up his life for me." "Damn! Peter's mom is kind of a bitch!" "She didn't use those exact words, but that was the gist of it.