Quotes About Bond

This is a novel about sisters...typically sisters are the longest relationship we'll have in our lifetimes. A sister is someone who should stand by you and support you and love you no matter what, and yet it's also your sister who knows exactly where to drive the knife and hurt you the most.

How different it is with friendship. No one picks a friend for us; we come together by choice. We are not tied together through ceremony or the responsibility to create a son; we tie ourselves together through moments. The spark when we first meet. Laughter and tears shared. Secrets packed away to be treasured, hoarded, and protected. The wonder that someone can be so different from you and yet still understand your heart in a way no one else ever will. I remember clearly

How different it is with friendship. No one picks a friend for us; we come together by choice.

A friend without faults will never be found

Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life. She is the only person left in the world who shares my memories of our childhood, our parents, our Shanghai, our struggles, our sorrows, and, yes, even our moments of happiness and triumph. My sister is the one person who truly knows me, as I know her. The last thing May says to me is "When our hair is white, we'll still have our sister love.

Maybe that's what we're all like with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

No one picks a friend for us; we come together by choice. We are not tied together through ceremony or the responsibility to create a son; we tie ourselves together through moments. The spark when we first meet. Laughter and tears shared. Secrets packed away to be treasured, hoarded, and protected. The wonder that someone can be so different from you and yet still understand your heart in a way no one

We froze. Neither of us moving, simply staring at each other, wondering if the other was going to move first. You are, he whispered, uncommonly stirring. He closed his eyes then, as if he had to in order to break the bond between us, then lifted me to the saddle and stared at the ground as he guided my feet into the stirrups.

Every couple starts off loving each other, don't they? It's how a relationship ends that really defines its nature.

This is your home," her mother said. "Wherever I am, that's where you belong.

No one ever talks about the power and comfort of a true friendship that endures years. The friend who worries about you, is there when you call, brings soup when you're sick, camps out on your couch when you're sad. There aren't many friends like that. If you have one, be grateful. I know I am.

The years grew over that embrace like a vine.

And how the connections between them were as terribly fragile as they were indelible.

The easiest way of communicating with those on the Earth plane is while they sleep. You'll be able to tap into their dreams easily and spend time with their souls, and they'll wake up feeling as if you've been with them. The reality is, you have. Your souls will be connected: as they leave their body through the natural sleep process and astral-travel, you'll be able to meet with them and talk, and even have fun together.

But remember, it's just between you and me!

They're friendship pebbles. They mean that we're best friends-if you want to be.

True kinship has naught to do with blood ties, however strong they be. I think we are all kin, brothers and sisters one to the other, all children of all parents.

There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship

She would die, Claire realized, before she would give up the love she felt for her son.

It sure doesn't take long to start to love a kid.

It was the helplessness that scared the both of us.

Friends will take care of them. That's what friends do.

It was because someone who was a real friend was having the exact same feelings I was having, about something that was more important to me than anything else. I bet there are people who go through a whole life and never experience that.

The Giver hugged him. "I love you, Jonas," he said. "But I have another place to go. When my work here is finished, I want to be with my daughter.