31 Heartfelt Quotes About Sisters

Sisters hold a special place in our hearts, offering a unique blend of friendship, love, and lifelong companionship. Whether tied by blood or circumstance, the bond between sisters is often one of the most enduring and profound relationships in our lives. In this blog post, we celebrate the beauty, strength, and complexity of sisterhood through a carefully curated collection of heartfelt quotes. These words capture the essence of what it means to share a lifelong connection with someone who understands us in a way no one else can. Whether you're looking to express gratitude, celebrate a special moment, or simply reflect on the joy your sister brings, these quotes will resonate deeply with anyone lucky enough to have a sister by their side.

1. “In a way, I was incrediibly proud of her (not that I had any intention of letting it show while I was beating the crap out of her).” - Meg Cabot

2. “I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?” - Jess C. Scott

3. “Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simply say, "Here are the perimeters of our attention. If you prowl around under the windows till the crickets go silent, we will pull the shades. If you wish us to suffer your envious curiosity, you must permit us not to notice it." Anyone with one solid human bond is that smug, and it is the smugness as much as the comfort and safety that lonely people covet and admire.” - Marilynne Robinson

4. “The male's diamond eyes locked on Payne, and though she hadn't seen him in forever, she knew who he was. Sure as if she was staring at her own reflection. Tears sprang unbidden to her eyes for last she had known, he breathed no longer. "Vishous," she whispered desperately. "Oh, brother mine...” - J.R. Ward

5. “When he nodded, the physician disappeared into thin air, and then a moment later, Payne felt a warm palm encompass hers. It was Vishous's un-gloved hand against her own and the connection between them eased her in ways she couldn't name. Verily, she had lost her mother . . . but if she lived through this, she still had family. On this side.” - J.R. Ward

6. “Sister," he murmured, not as an inquiry, but a statement of fact. "Brother mine," she groaned... before her consciousness slipped from her grasp and she drifted away. But she would come back to him. One way or the other, she would not leave her twin ever again.” - J.R. Ward

7. “That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.” - Kristen Hannah

8. “It's a commonly expressed and rather nice, romantic notion that we are all "sisters" and "brothers."Let's be real. Fact is, we might be better served to accept that we are all siblings.Siblings fight, pull each other's hair, steal stuff, and accuse each other indiscriminately.But siblings also know the undeniable fact that they are the same blood, share the same origins, and are family.Even when they hate each other.And that tends to put all things in perspective.” - Vera Nazarian

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

10. “You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?” - Jodi Picoult

11. “And yet, Eomer, I say to you that she loves you more truly than me, for you she loves and knows; but in me she loves only a shadow and a thought: a hope of glory and great deeds, and lands far from the fields of Rohan.- Aragorn to Eomer, of Eowyn” - J.R.R. Tolkien

12. “And the kids?""Quincy, nothing. All she wants to do is look for Saturn's rings and bring home every creature from the pound. Nelson, though, he's..." She looked at Nicholas. "He's like you. Gifted, but ignorant."Nicholas bristled, "I'm not ignorant.""You are about magic.""That's because I don't believe in magic.""Nicholas," She stopped, hands on hips, waiting until he turned around. "You're haunted. You see the dead. How can you not believe in magic?” - Stephen M. Irwin

13. “I am still the center sister. But I see it differently now. There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.” - Sarah Dessen

14. “Little Sisters' Survival Guide, rule number thirty-seven," Skylar said. "Scream before they hit you.” - Jennifer Lynn Barnes

15. “My little sister snuck out of the house carrying a circular-saw blade and a can of Mace. I couldn't exactly let her come alone.” - Jennifer Lynn Barnes

16. “If I took it away, no doubt I'd find a morningstar hidden under your pillow within a fortnight. Try not to stab your sister, whatever the provocation.” - George R. R. Martin

17. “Everyone has always said I look like Bailey, but I don't.I have grey eyes to her green,an oval face to her heart-shaped one,I'm shorter, scrawnier, paler, flatter, plainer, tamer.All we shared is a madhouse of curlsthat I imprison in a ponytailwhile she let hers ravelike madnessaround her head.I don't sing in my sleepor eat the petals off flowersor run into the rain instead of out of it.I'm the unplugged-in one,the side-kick sister,tucked into a corner of her shadow.Boys followed her everywhere;they filled the booths at the restaurant where she waitressed,herded around her at the river.One day, I saw a boy come up behind herand pull a strand of her long hairI understood this-I felt the same way.In photographs of us together,she is always looking at the camera,and I am always looking at her.” - Jandy Nelson

18. “I was so mad, I reached into the drawer for her fake sushi eraser and put it in my pocket. Serves her right for being such a big, fat, Eggo-scarfing liar.” - Sarah Darer Littman

19. “Remind me to thank God I don’t have a sister.”Caine eyed him critically. He was a filthy heap of blood and soot and sand stuck to the gun oil on his face. “Yeah,” without much enthusiasm. “I’ll thank Him for ya.” - V.S. Carnes

20. “The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful.” - Mike Norton

21. “At the snowy summit of all these things, however, is the fact that you simply cannot go about locking your siblings in towers when they misbehave. It is unseemly and betrays a sad lack of creativity.” - Catherynne M. Valente

22. “For one thing, everyone there is so clever. Do they think me dull?Perhaps I should assure them that our goats enjoyed listening to me for hours on end. I am certain their bleats meant "Do go on, Miri, darling. You are immensely entertaining."Your immensely entertaining sister,Miri” - Shannon Hale

23. “However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels...” - Rosamund Lupton

24. “...grief is loved turned into an eternal missing. ...It can't be contained in hours or days or minutes.” - Rosamund Lupton

25. “The gastliness of nothing. Because I was nobody's sister now.” - Rosamund Lupton

26. “I couldn't bear the thought of Alex looking at me like I was a freak. It was bad enough that the looked at me as Jack's sister.” - Sarah Alderson

27. “That's when I started thinking about my sister.I thought about the time when she and her friends painted my fingernails, and how that was okay because my brother wasn't there. And the time she let me use her dolls to make up plays or let me watch whatever I wanted to watch on TV. And when she started becoming a "young lady," and no one was allowed to look at her because she thought she was fat. And how she really wasn't fat. And how she was actually very pretty. And how different her face looked when she realized boys thought she was pretty. And how different her face looked the first time she really like a boy who was not on a poster on her wall. And how her face looked when she realized she was in love with that boy. And then I wondered how her face would look when she came out from behind those doors.” - Stephen Chbosky

28. “He would know a number of grown women in his life who did not possess even a small portion of the grace his middle sister owned at the age of fourteen.” - James Carlos Blake

29. “My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.” - Venus Williams

30. “My sister the booty police.” - Victoria Laurie

31. “She once told me of a night that fumed with escapes and was filled with bedsides reeking of ecstasy; she told me the stars cast not judgments, but blessings, knowing full well the disastrous outcomes of the deeds they cradled with the strings of their young hearts. She’d inhaled the night itself, those around her doing the same, and so all become one. No disharmony. No discordance. Nothing to shatter the cause; nothing to unearth the beauty. So as we together ascended that front porch, allowing the glow behind the blown-out windows and the odious steams plunder us from through the cracks...time forgot to distill us, and our steps became as silver as glass. I could no longer deny the boiling words of my blood: tonight would be the beginning of a very long road indeed.” - Dave Matthes