Quote by Melissa Kantor

“One day, when you are sitting with my sister, Mahgen, around a fire, and you're feeling how perfectly right it is to be next…

— Madison Thorne Grey

“You know I've always wanted someone to sing to me, but now I know that what I want more is to sing to you.”

— Marlena De Blasi

“When we can't find my sister, we know / she is under the kitchen table, a book in her hand, / a glass of…

— Jacqueline Woodson

“It was almost habit now for me to seek her out whenever I heard her singing - her voice was my only respite. The…

— Danielle L. Jensen

“My sister's voice is Minnie Mouse and a dash of fingernails down a chalkboard, but only when she wants to bend me to her…

— Alex Adams

“The song of the years, the melody of life. Everything else - is not you, all others are strangers. And you yourself, who are…

— Sasha Sokolov

“At home, in the empty flat, I wish more than anything that I had somebody who would come home to me tonight, somebody I…

— Gilly Macmillan

“You know what's given me the greatest pleasure in my life? It's been our bungalow, the normalcy of it, the ordinariness of my waking,…

— Abraham Verghese

“I don’t think I’ll ever get sick of hearing her sing. Or talk. Or laugh, or bust my balls, or tell me I’m a…

— K.A. Tucker

“I knew that she couldn’t hear me if she was there. But the sound was enough to grab me, to hold me to hope,…

— Shawn Kirsten Maravel

“You coming in here?” I asked. “Afraid I’ll gnaw on your stepmother?”

— Devon Monk

“But I did wonder what she did, on those afternoons—not just Fridays either, because on the days I had speech team, somebody else’s mother…

— Claire Messud