Once in a lifetime you find something special,
Your lives intermingle and somehow you know
this is the beginning of all you have longed for
A love you can build.
A love that will grow.
Once in a lifetime to those who are lucky,
a miracle happens and all dreams come true.
I know it can happen, it happened to me,
for I've found the "Once in a lifetime" in you-
A ministering angel shall my sister be.
-- William Shakespeare
A sibling may be the keeper of one's identity, the only person with the keys to one's unfettered, more fundamental self.
-- Marian Sandmaier
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.
-- Toni Morrison
A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.
-- Isadora James
A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.
-- Marion C. Garretty
A sister shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams.
-- Author Unknown
A sister smiles when one tells one's stories - for she knows where the decoration has been added.
-- Chris Montaigne
A true sister is a friend who listens with her heart.
-- Author Unknown
A younger sister is someone to use as a guinea-pig in trying sledges and experimental go-carts. Someone to send on messages to Mum. But someone who needs you - who comes to you with bumped heads, grazed knees, tales of persecution. Someone who trusts you to defend her. Someone who thinks you know the answers to almost everything.
-- Pam Brown
An older sister helps one remain half child, half woman.
-- Author Unknown
An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.
-- Pam Brown
1: relationship by marriage2 a: sympathy marked by community of interest : kinship b (1): an attraction to or liking for something <people with an affinity to darkness — Mark Twain> <pork and fennel have a natural affinity for each other — Abby Mandel> (2): an attractive force between substances or particles that causes them to enter into and remain in chemical combination c: a person especially of the opposite sex having a particular attraction for one3 a: likeness based on relationship or causal connection <found an affinity between the teller of a tale and the craftsman — Mary McCarthy> <this investigation, with affinities to a case history, a psychoanalysis, a detective story — Oliver Sacks> b: a relation between biological groups involving resemblance in structural plan and indicating a common origin