Annie Murphy Quotes

I always wanted siblings.

I always wanted a brother.

I have a younger brother.

I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries.

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, so I always kind of wished that I had an older brother or a younger brother or sister just to have that bond, so I find myself constantly writing about that relationship.

My brother …

I love having a sister. Its a great relationship that you dont understand unless you have one, I guess.

Siblings are often very opposite.

I think that your relationship is always changing with your siblings.

Certainly, people can get along without siblings. Single children do, and there are people who have irreparably estranged relationships with their siblings who live full and satisfying lives, but to have siblings and not make the most of that resource is squandering one of the greatest interpersonal resources you'll ever have.

I've got two brothers and two sisters, so there's five of us and we're all very close, which is cool.

Everybody has fights with their sister.

In some ways, siblings, and especially sisters, are more influential in your childhood than your parents.

All my brothers and sisters are really witty, and I would just sit back and enjoy them.

I've got two younger brothers.

When you are one of six, your brothers and sisters become your best mates.

I do believe that O'Zell needs a sibling. She needs to have someone to play with.

I have two younger brothers, and we're very close in age.

I can confidently say that I have a great relationship with my siblings, though I know not everybody does. I would hope that my children have a very similar relationship with each other.

We're all conditioned that we shouldn't like our brothers and sisters, that we should be angry and fight. But that's abnormal. A lot of people think that the way Serena and I are with one another is weird. It's not.

I'm an only child. Which is kind of bad, because having a brother or sister is like another form of friendship. That's something I've missed out on, except I know that I couldn't be doing what I am doing now if I had brothers and sisters.

I adore my two older sisters, Erika and Betsy.

I don't throw around the word 'brother' because I'm so, so close to my real-life brothers and my real-life sisters, and being a brother is so important to me.

The best thing about having brothers and sisters is that they're brutally honest. My brother just got the 'Narnia' game, and first thing he does is kill me in it! Six times, over and over again!

We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings, half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have.