Jeffrey Kluger Quotes

I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries.

In some ways, siblings, and especially sisters, are more influential in your childhood than your parents.

I think that your relationship is always changing with your siblings.

Sibling relationships figure in a lot of my books. You don't often see relationships between adult siblings explored in fiction.

I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are very close, it never occurred to me to write about her.

Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends.

When you are one of six, your brothers and sisters become your best mates.

Siblings are often very opposite.

People say, 'Well, you're not Pau's little brother anymore.' I'm always going to be Pau's younger brother and Adria's older brother.

We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings, half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have.

I've always had this interest in sibling relationships because I don't have any siblings. I'm completely a product of the one-child policy in China, so I always kind of wished that I had an older brother or a younger brother or sister just to have that bond, so I find myself constantly writing about that relationship.

I've got two brothers and two sisters, so there's five of us and we're all very close, which is cool.

I actually have seven brothers in real life, and we're all very close in age. We basically go no more than two years between any of us.

My brother's my best friend, without a doubt. Me and my big sister get along so well. She moved to East London, though, so points off, but she's wicked. And then my little sister is a little genius. She's super talented and such a great person, always been far more mature and cool than me.

There is something about a guy who has a great relationship with his sisters.

I always wanted siblings.

I have a great relationship with all my brothers. I've got three other ones. There's four boys and two girls. It's a family business.

I can confidently say that I have a great relationship with my siblings, though I know not everybody does. I would hope that my children have a very similar relationship with each other.

Big sisters and brothers... I am telling you, it never changes.

I adore my two older sisters, Erika and Betsy.

My siblings are my best friends.

As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred.

Daniel, my big brother, is eight years older. I'm lucky he didn't mind hanging out with his little sister and my younger brother.

I am obsessed with my sisters. Being the oldest, I probably just have that in me. But I also think I am the youngest sometimes. We all have moments when we are the maternal one of the group.

I have a great relationship with everyone in my family, but I'm closer to my brothers than anyone else because they give me a lot of guidance.