“A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.”— Toni Morrison, books.google.com
“Me, finding my own shit in my sister's room while I'm stealing her shit: Why the fuck does my sister think it's ok to steal my shit?”— Violet Benson, instagram.com
“Networking is extremely time consuming and can feel like an overwhelming task to complete alone. When a friend easily lands a job through their superstar older bro, you turn a little green with envy and nausea.”— Genevieve Choate, thoughtcatalog.com
“Only children tend to be just as happy as children who grew up in a house full of siblings.”— Samantha Darby, romper.com
“Whenever you go over to a friend's house and she starts fighting with a sibling, it's maybe the most uncomfortable thing in the world. You've never had to argue with someone over the remote, so you don't know how to back your friend up or react at all.”— Hayley Glatter, seventeen.com
“You're really bad at babysitting. You never had to take care of a younger sibling, so you have no idea how to hold a baby or entertain a young child.”— Pai-Lin Hunnibell, theodysseyonline.com
“People always seem to think that growing up as an only child was hard on us when we were kids. But it was kinda nice – our friends would all have to deal with siblings they hated and would fight with all the time, while we got our rooms to ourselves and nobody to wrestle with for the remote control.…”— Jay Miletsky, puckermob.com
“Because you see it so much in pop culture, you can't help but speculate about what might have been. What if I had a brother to fight demons alongside, instead of having to do it by myself? What if he then went to jail on false charges and I had to get myself arrested so I could break him out?”— Mark Hill, cracked.com
“Unless your parents are super nice or super wealthy, there is no rule that says only children get absolutely everything they ask for. The one time we can truly ‘have it all’, however, is when we get the blame for something we can’t pin on a sibling.”— Gena-mour Barrett, buzzfeed.com
“We prefer to avoid conflict. We didn’t grow up with a sibling to torment or to be tormented by and are therefore naturally averse to peer conflict.”— Frank Bozzo, lifehack.org
“He’s an only child and could never understand the delicate joys of sibling abuse.”— Cynthia Hand, amazon.com
“I haven't met loads of asshole only children. If you fill a room with all the assholes you know, I bet that most of them have siblings.”— Judy Greer, amazon.com
“I do not mourn the loss of my sister because she will always be with me, in my heart.”— Erin Morgenstern, amazon.com
“Grief is a house where no one can protect you where the younger sister will grow older than the older one where the doors no longer let you in or out.”— Jandy Nelson, amazon.com
“The Law of Siblings dictated that our relationship was never more than a few milliseconds of warmth beyond repair, even under the worst circumstances.”— Mélanie Berliet, amazon.com