Brother Quotes

“What do you know about somebody not being good enough for somebody else? And since when did you care whether Corinthians stood up or fell down? You've been laughing at us all your life. Corinthians. Mama. Me. Using us, ordering us, and judging us: how we cook your food; how we keep your house. But now, all of a sudden, you have Corinthians' welfare at heart and break her up from a man you don't approve of. Who are you to approve or disapprove anybody or anything? I was breathing air in the world thirteen years before your lungs were even formed. Corinthians, twelve. . . . but now you know what's best for the very woman who wiped the dribble from your chin because you were too young to know how to spit. Our girlhood was spent like a found nickel on you. When you slept, we were quiet; when you were hungry, we cooked; when you wanted to play, we entertained you; and when you got grown enough to know the difference between a woman and a two-toned Ford, everything in this house stopped for you. You have yet to . . . move a fleck of your dirt from one place to another. And to this day, you have never asked one of us if we were tired, or sad, or wanted a cup of coffee. . . . Where do you get the RIGHT to decide our lives? . . . I'll tell you where. From that hog's gut that hangs down between your legs. . . . I didn't go to college because of him. Because I was afraid of what he might do to Mama. You think because you hit him once that we all believe you were protecting her. Taking her side. It's a lie. You were taking over, letting us know you had the right to tell her and all of us what to do. . . . I don't make roses anymore, and you have pissed your last in this house.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“Chip, I know you don't understand this, but I'd take it as a personal favor if you'd stop trying to marry your mother off to my brothers.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Dream a Little Dream

“Your relationship with your brother will be, in many ways, the most complex and bewildering of all the interpersonal connections you will form. An older brother is both authority and peer, friend and bitter enemy, partner and rival, and will play these contradictory roles to varying degrees throughout your life. At this point the rivalry is most prominent, owing to the difference in age and the resentment your brother feels toward you monopolizing your mother's attention. Try to remember, in the face of the poor treatment you receive at his hands, that more than a pure desire to cause you harm or pain, this is an effort on his part to win back some of that attention, even if it's only through being scolded and punished.”
― Ron Currie Jr., Everything Matters!

“The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a gathering of severe mute brothers from a forbidden ancient order worshiping forgotten gods no one had ever heard of outside of the world of secret occult visions.”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“He felt like a brother of mine, but not at all like my actual brother. He seemed like someone I'd always know even if I never saw him again.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“Lorcan rubbed his head. “Am I asking too much to want the little bitch dead? Am I?” It seemed Hefaidd-Hen learned long ago not to answer certain questions. “All I want is for her to suffer a painful, horrifying death. And for her head to be on a spike in front of my castle. That’s all I want.”
― G.A. Aiken, Dragon Actually

“Like Mum and that bastard.” “You mean Da?”

“Call him what you like.”
― G.A. Aiken, Supernatural

“Accomplish your tasks by one step at each time. Don't cut your coat according to your elder brother's size. Dream big, but start small; do what you can do at a time.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“The unnatural beast plummeted to the ground, vainly attempting to keep his entrails in and put out the fire that covered him. Morfyd spewed another spell at the retreating form and Hefaidd-Hen burst into pieces.
Fearghus glanced at his sister. “That was a bit much, don’t you think?”
She gave an innocent shrug. “I like to be certain.”
― G.A. Aiken, Dragon Actually

“Ishbel read maps like storybooks. She was getting off the island, and no one was going to stop her. That was all just romance, just fairytales, because anyone can leave the island. Since they built the bridge, leaving should be as easy as sticking your keys in the car ignition. But leaving is never easy.”
― Kirsty Logan, The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales

“My sister is there with, probably, the most dangerous people on this city! You have a little sister?”
“No.”
“Then you don’t have any right to tell me what I suposse to sacrifice if it’s for my sister’s sake!”
“Owen...”
“She’s the only younger sibling I have. If something happens to her, I don’t see any reason why should I keep alive on this freaking Earth!”
― Rea Lidde, Mission Possible, But Difficult Task

“I run my fingers along the thick, fabric wallpaper to steady myself. Putting one foot in front of another feels like learning to walk all over again. My body's still working. Heart's still beating. Lungs still moving. But not because I want them to. They do those things on their own, without me even asking. So why didn't they do it for Eamon ? How could his body just give up on him like that ? Fall apart. It made him seen so fragile, and I don't want to remember him that way. He was the strongest guy I knew. How could he break so easily ? It seems like our bodies would be built better. It just doesn't fucking seem real.”
― Jolene Perry, My Heart for Yours

“For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.”
― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, The Grooming of Alice

“La vida son pasos. Y a cada paso que das, dejas algo atrás.”
― Jordi Balaguer, La maldición de Gryal

“Des années après que mon frère avait déserté ma chambre, après avoir mis en terre tous ceux qui m'étaient chers, j'offrai enfin à Simon la sépulture à laquelle il n'avait jamais eu droit. Il allait y dormir, en compagnie des enfants qui avaient connu son destin, sur cette page portant sa photo, ses dates si rapprochées et son nom, dont l'orthographe différait si peu du mien. Ce livre serait sa tombe.”
― Philippe Grimbert, Memory

“How do you lose your brother ? You lose your grandfather, your distant uncle, your dog for Christ's sake. Not your brother. Especially brothers like mine.”
― Jolene Perry, My Heart for Yours

“I want to hate him for what he did. Leaving us. It's not right. He's gone and I'm stuck here in this fucking funeral home, staring at his casket. There's no way out. Not for me, and certainly not for him. The casket is closed. Bolted shut for eternity. No one forced him to be a Jackass wannabe, though.”
― Jolene Perry, My Heart for Yours

“When you are a grown up your brothers become your neighbors and your unconditional brotherhood become your conditional neighborhood.”
― Amit Kalantri

“I need someone I can count on. Until recently, you were the most reliable of us all. I sincerely hope that hasn’t changed for good.” “Don’t go there, brother.”

“Over some male not worthy of you.”

He went there!”
― G.A. Aiken, Supernatural

“Good gods, you look like cold shit.” Ghleanna gazed at her brother and again wondered why she hadn’t smashed his bloody egg when she had the chance. Her mother would have eventually forgiven her.

“Thank you, brother. And you look fat and happy. Having an easy time of it here, are you?” “Fat? Fat?” He speared the moaning human at his feet. “How dare you! My human form is in fighting trim, you callous cow.” “If you say so.”
― G.A. Aiken, Supernatural

“Dean Walker, my brother. The man that's well on his way to earning the proud title of town drunk.”
― Melyssa Winchester, Count on Me

“And at other times when Kellyanne held out Pobby and Dingan were real I would just sit there saying, "Are not. Are not. Are not," until she got bored of saying, "Are. Are. Are," and went running out screaming with her hands over her ears.

And many times I've wanted to kill Pobby and Dingan, I don't mind saying it.”
― Ben Rice, Pobby and Dingan

“Daniel first kisses his brother in a town where no-one knows them, a no-account place that's barely even a town, just some buildings clustered around the highway: a smoky bar, an empty motel, a convenience store that only sells candy and condoms and beer. The nearest gas station is twenty miles away. The nearest bus station is fifty.”
― Kirsty Logan, The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales

“Sur une échelle du sentiment fraternel qui irait de l'inceste homosexuel au crime fratricide, je nous situerais au beau milieu”
― Frédéric Beigbeder, Un roman français

“Fear manifested itself as a physical presence that
seemed to dominate the public sphere. Time almost stopped. Even without
confirmation I could sense that something had gone terribly wrong.”
― Phindiwe Nkosi, Behind the Hospital

“If Gerry were dying of thirst and spotted Alex two feet from a well, he still would not think he required his younger brother's help. It simply would never occur to him that Alex might be able to provide it.”
― Meredith Duran, Wicked Becomes You

“Work smart, not hard”
― Monica Madison, The Girl from the Gutter

“If you can’t fire your best friend or your brother, don’t hire them.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

“Once my brother was very angry on my parents and told them “You should have killed me when I was a child”
Interestingly I was present and told him “I don’t think it is still too late” and I have never heard him complaining about life.”
― M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

“For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.'

And as they stared after me, I went regally back down the hallway and up the stairs to Dad's room.”
― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor