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Quotes About Twins

I made The War Zone when I had just given birth to twins, and my post-partum frame was very much on display there.
~ Tilda Swinton
I looked at the back of Jessica's silky bent head and thought of those old stories where one twin is hurt and the other, miles away, feels the pain. I wondered if there had been a moment, during that giggly girls' night at Auntie Vera's, when she had made some small, unnoticed sound; if all the answers we wanted were locked away behind the strange dark gateways of her mind.
~ Tana French
Identical twins are no different from everyone else, except we look and sometimes sound exactly alike.
~ Kwame Alexander
Then we'd go to sleep and dream the same dreams. We always dreamed the same dreams, which was like living twice.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
The first two human beings to set foot on another world stepped out of the jelly-hatch and into the warm, ever-so-slightly joy-coloured light of Litost's twin suns, which the Klavaret refer to collectively as Our Mums.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Fate gave birth at one and the same time to two siblings, Love and Death.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
We all contribute to The National, and it's like a familiar family. Matt is dad, Brian's like the dark horse uncle, Scott's the long-suffering mum, and Aaron and I are the bratty twins.
~ Bryce Dessner
Not long after watching 'The Passenger,' I wrote the first lines of 'The Isle of Youth,' which concerns twin sisters who swap identities and become ensnared in the Miami underworld.
~ Laura van den Berg
What could be more intimate, more placental? This steamy, candlelit cradle she'd made use, twins tied in the womb. Grooming each other, letting the soil and torment that is the world's indifference disappear down the drain. Here, at last, was my partner. Tucked behind the wet walls of our sanctum. Here we could gleam anew with infant vigor, could refuel each other...with the will to believe again.
~ Nick Fowler
Ecce autem gemini a Tenedo tranquilla per alta--- horresco referens---immensis orbibus angues incumbunt pelago, pariterque ad litora tendunt; pectora quorum inter fluctus arrecta iubaeque sanguineae superant undas; pars cetera pontum pone legit, sinuatque immensa volumine terga.
~ Virgil
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour).
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour).
~ Vladimir Nabokov
streets of his neighborhood, his dog, Zeke, trotting right beside him. He was studying an arrow-shaped cloud in the bright blue sky when squealing shouts echoed from just ahead. "Dexter! Dexter! Buy some lemonade!" Two identical blond heads bounced up over a rosebush. It was the little Tucker twins, Stephanie and Bobbie.
~ Lauren Tarshis
It is not economical to go to bed early to save candles if the result is twins.
~ Chinese proverb
Rivers had assumed this person was a fantasy, someone the twins had merely dreamt about or invented, but no, Josh had insisted he was real-real and living in Scotland.
~ James Herbert
Knock knock. War's where! Which war? The Twwinns. Knock knock. Woos without! Without what? An apple. Knock knock.
~ James Joyce
Whoever said time is on your side sure never had twins.
~ James Patterson
Fear and I were born twins together.
~ Thomas Hobbes
A good neighbor will babysit. A great neighbor will babysit twins.
~ Author Unknown
Thare iz 2 things in this life for which we are never fully prepared, and them iz twins... Twins are two very interesting acksidents tew happen in sumboddy elses family, but one twin at a time suits me the most.
~ Josh Billings
It's double the giggles and double the grins, and Double the trouble if you're blessed with twins.
~ Author Unknown
It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins.
~ Chinese proverb
Life is two-riffic with twins.
~ Author Unknown
Twenty fingers, twenty toes, Two sweet babies with cheeks of rose. Born the same day, two gifts from above, Lives entwined, two babies to love.
~ Author Unknown