The words secret and sacred are siblings.

The secret and the sacred are sisters. When the secret is not respected, the sacred vanishes. Consequently, reflection should not shine too severe or…

— John O'Donohue

“Words were secret doorways and I held all the keys.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“Sorry, I didn't see the big X with the words Top Secret Government Laboratory on the map, did you?”

— Julie Kagawa

Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships.

— Robert J. Waldinger

I do have siblings, but I don't have any brothers.

— Anonymous

“When you look in the mirror, your difficult sibling always looks back, though the image is distorted. In the shadows lurk parts of yourself…

— Jeanne Safer Jeanne Safer Ph.D

I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven but I…

— Ann Patchett

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,…

— Marie Lu

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the…

— Peter De Vries

It's a very different bond, siblings and friends. And I just - I wanted that huge family, just to surround me, be surrounded by.

— Nadya Suleman

My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money... but lots of love.

— Hilda Solis

Certainly, people can get along without siblings. Single children do, and there are people who have irreparably estranged relationships with their siblings who live…

— Jeffrey Kluger

I was someone's younger sibling and I finally have my own voice and my own spotlight.

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

Sibling rivalries continue even as they get older, such as who can finish their breakfast first.

— Himanshi Khurana

The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister,…

— Jane Smiley