Jandy Nelson Quotes

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

Certainly, people can get along without siblings. Single children do, and there are people who have irreparably estranged relationships with their siblings who live full and satisfying lives, but to have siblings and not make the most of that resource is squandering one of the greatest interpersonal resources you'll ever have.

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

I always wanted siblings.

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.

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.

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

Siblings are often very opposite.

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.

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

My siblings are my best friends.

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

I don't have a twin, but I do have a brother and sisters, and I do know that there is a special bond there that is - I'm going to say - closer. It's different. It's closer than having a best friend. It's easier to forgive them. I think it's also easier to get mad at them. You feel a little piece of yourself in them.

I love having a sister. Its a great relationship that you dont understand unless you have one, I guess.

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

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 always wanted a sibling.

I just really like being with my sister.

I'm an only child. Which is kind of bad, because having a brother or sister is like another form of friendship. That's something I've missed out on, except I know that I couldn't be doing what I am doing now if I had brothers and sisters.

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

My own life has in some ways been a decades-long tour of the sibling experience. I have full sibs, I have half-sibs, and for a time I had step-sibs.

I adore my two older sisters, Erika and Betsy.

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.