Sibling Tension Quotes

Sometimes little brothers and big brothers get into it.

I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.

Gareth turned to Gregory. “Your sister will be safe with me,” he said. “I give you my vow.” “Oh, I have no worries on that score,” Gregory said with a bland smile. “The real question is—will you be safe with her?” It was a good thing, Gareth later reflected, that Hyacinth had already quit the room to fetch her coat and her maid. She probably would have killed her brother on the spot.

Only in 2016 can a brother and sister have problems over the same man.

One win­ter, when I was 12, my older brother Frank (20) said to my father, 'We want you out of the house. We don't want any­thing other than the house we live in. We don't want any­thing from you. Just leave.' And he left.

Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.

It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.

My sister just had a baby, a little newborn. The kid is adorable, so cute. She wouldn't let me hold him, she refuses. She says, 'No way, Anthony, I'm afraid you're gonna drop him.' I'm 32 years old. Like I'm some kind of idiot. Like I don't have a million other ways to hurt that baby.

Sometimes siblings can get in each other's space.

Your sister knows everything to say to piss you off. But sisters tend to be each other's biggest champion and also their hardest critics.

I get in fights with my sister all the time. She comes on the road with me and we fight - like sisters do.

Do you forget that I am your sister?” “No; I’ve never been granted the opportunity to forget it.

I always struggle with explaining my relationship with my sister Kim. I am not sure why I am not always able to be myself when I am around her.

It's always a bit much, being in a band with your brother. We fight all the time, but it's kind of comical.

Everybody has fights with their sister.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Brothers are so unpleasant.

We all have competitive relationships with our siblings.

As the youngest of three girls, most of my childhood works were revenge fantasies against my older sisters, so of course the sisters in 'Pretty Girls' share some similarities to my own.

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