Alycia Debnam-Carey Quotes

Sometimes siblings can get in each other's space.

Siblings are often very opposite.

When you have a lot of siblings, you always do something to feel special.

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.

All my brothers and sisters are really witty, and I would just sit back and enjoy them.

I grew up with brothers in real life.

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

Sibling relationships have been underemphasised in learning about child development.

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 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.

For me being the youngest, there was never ever anything that was an issue to cause rivalry between me and my sisters.

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

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 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.

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

We all have competitive relationships with our 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.

I don't have a brother in real life.

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

I know friends who have this sort of incredibly intimate relationship with their sibling. And I don't get it: it wasn't like that in my family. In some ways, I'm envious, because they have someone that's so completely in their corner. And at the same time, I imagine it may at times feel like it's stunting.

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.

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

I interviewed more than 100 women about their sisters, but if they also had brothers, I asked them to compare. Most said they talked to their sisters more often, at greater length and, yes, about more personal topics. This often meant that they felt closer to their sisters, but not always.

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