“They were the sisterhood: their mothers at a younger age.”

“Maybe we tried so hard to be like the Sisterhood because it was easy for them and we wanted it to be easy for us. Because they were lucky and we wanted to be lucky too. They had wonder, and we didn't have any. We looked for the magic, but we didn't fine it. We waited for the magic, but it didn't find us.”

“It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.”

“She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.”

“Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.”

“Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)”

“Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved her intensely if not honestly.”