Quote by E. Lockhart

“The brothers were brought up to be men. The girls had been reared to get married.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“They grope before them like blind people and find each the other as they would a door. Almost like children that dread the night,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“We are so dull that we rarely realize how much history lies hidden in marriage, and how the one word spoken by the bride…

— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

“We were born in the '70s, back when twins were rare, a bit magical: cousins of the unicorn, siblings of the elves.”

— Gillian Flynn

“There was another matter which caused much disturbance in our mind: the viciousness of sibling rivalry. We knew that kingship knows no kinship. No…

— Khushwant Singh

“Their own life together was like a subtle watercolor sketch, invisible to other people. They gave the world what it required of them and…

— Andreï Makine

“So they became friends, the way old married couples often do, and enjoyed the tender loyalty that awaits the lucky on the other side…

— Diane Setterfield

“These characters might not have wed, but their lack of husbands constrained and defined them, just as surely as marriage would have. They”

— Rebecca Traister

“There was nothing in life harder or more important than agreeing every morning to stay the course, to go back to your forgotten self…

— Emma Straub

“They were totally alone, those kids, like each had been accidentally sent to earth from a distant planet to live among adult humans and…

— Russell Banks

“Like their mother, Honor Sparrow, dead now for twenty-some years- gone on the very day her youngest daughter, Impatiens, arrived- the sisters had all…

— Ellen Herrick

“What happens when the They family meets the Whatevers?”

— Wyatt B. Pringle, Jr