Character Quote by Jane Austen

“Things went so well for him so often that no one ever needed to worry about how he behaved when they didn’t go well.”

— Michael Lewis

“He was suspicious, distrustful and greedy, as only a brother could be.”

— Peter James West

“What he had was a sense that few things mattered much. That few people are to be feared. And so he now faced all…

— Dave Eggers

“She was all that he wanted from life. Looking at her made him feel nostalgic. It was just like his innocent childhood. When he…

— Anushka Bhartiya

“She pitied everyone who didn't have a sister.”

— Carol Anshaw

“He was failing at everything important. A room away his daughter was sitting with her face in her hands and he could not go…

— Anthony Doerr

“most of all, she’d learned that she had to rely on herself. Certainly her father and her sister couldn’t be counted on.”

— Kristin Hannah

“In every family there is usually one member who is a source of trouble and worry.”

— Agatha Christie

“She had reasons for believing that there was a young sister living, and her greatest desire was, to help that sister.”

— Charles Dickens

“He'd underestimated the power his sister held. He'd underestimated the fact people would be willing to follow a woman.”

— Dyan Chick

“The fact that they were there, that everything they owned wasn’t enough somehow, disturbed her, suggesting a bottomlessness to certain kinds of unhappiness. She”

— Matthew Thomas

“Oh well. She was foolish to think he could actually have been interested in her. She was too short, her boobs too small, her…

— Elle Kennedy