Quotes about brother page 4

“Clary curled up on the ground seeing in front of her not the shell of a destroyed town but the eyes of the brother and the sister that she would never have.”

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden

Source: The Garden of Eden

“Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale… Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story

God

“Fine, I guess it's ok then. Go ahead."
"Huh? What's ok?"
"It's okay if you marry my brother.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

“Brother and Sister So & So are not your standard; Jesus is.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

“I could not cry for my own brother; he would not want me to. But I found myself crying for this hated stranger and the endless slaughter that I had almost contributed to." (page 8)”

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Hawksong

Source: Hawksong

Hate, Cry

“Atque in pepetuum, frater, ave atque vale.
Forever and ever, my brother, hail and farewell.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

“Nicely done, brother," said Gabriel from the bed, blinking sleepy green eyes at Gideon.
Gideon threw a scone at him.”

“And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life?”

Source: Clockwork Princess

Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian

Source: The Magnificent Defeat (1966)

Life, Death, God, Truth

“Minister: Welcome, brother! Do you reject Satan and all his works?
Bunny Breckinridge: Sure.”

Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker

“I take your hand, brother, so that you may go in peace.”

“Dude! Put a bell on. You don't walk up on a brother like that and scare the crap out of him. (Nick)
Sorry. Didn't realize you scared like a little girl. (Acheron)”

Source: Clockwork Princess

Peace

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Invincible

Girl

“… I do have to wonder what sort of childhood the Grimm brothers endured. They are not a merry bunch of storytellers, what with their children roasted by witches, maidens poisoned by old crones, and whatnot.”

Libba Bray book Rebel Angels

Source: Rebel Angels

Children, Childhood

“Percy," my mom said. "I give you my blessing."
"Be safe brother!" Tyson pleaded.
"Enchiladas!" Grover said. I wasn't sure where that came from, but it didn't seem to help much.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

Moms, Help

“If we're going to the Silent City, you might want to get dressed. I mean, I appreciate the bra-and-panties look, but I don't know if the Silent Brothers will. There are only a few of the left, and I don't want them to die of excitement.”

“We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. (pg. 39)”

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Elie Wiesel book Night

Source: Night

Fate, Way, Suffering, Help

“Here on the pulse of this new day
You may have the grace to look up and out
And into your sister's eyes,
Into your brother's face, your country
And say simply
Very simply
With hope
Good morning.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Hope, Sister, Country

“But the Silent Brothers have tried everything to separate Jace from the heavenly fire, and they can't do it. It's in his soul. So what's their plan, hitting Sebastian over the head with Jace until he passes out?”

“There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother… Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.”

"Brother Zachariah said pretty much the same thing. Maybe with less sarcasm."
Clary Fray and Jace Herondale, pg. 100-101
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)

Soul

Anna Quindlen (1952) journalist, Novelist

Love, Hate, Boy

“He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

Life

“Big brothers are the ones who are supposed to pull their punches. Little sisters—well, we should be able
to hit as hard as we like, shouldn’t we?”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

“Jem: Come in.
Jace: Where's Brother Zachariah?
Jem: I'm right here. Jace Herondale. And once more a Herondale is the object of my deliverance. I should have anticipated.”

“What brothers say to tease their sisters has nothing to do with what they really think of them.”

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Esther M. Friesner (1951) American writer

Source: Nobody's Princess

Thinking, Sister

“Ayame: "Yuki, let's deepen the bond between us brothers!"
Yuki: "Before you can do that I'll drown you in the deepest part of that lake."
Ayame: "As long as we spend time together."
Yuki: "On second thought, go drown yourself.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Time, Parting

“Would you?” said Gabriel to Will, hotly. “If it was your family?” His lip curled. “Never mind. It’s not as if you know the meaning of loyalty —”
“Gabriel.” Gideon’s voice was a reprimand to his brother. “Do not speak to Will in that manner.”

“It's all very romantic," Gabriel said, and then frowned. "Or it would be, if my brother could get a word out without sounding like a choking frog. I fear he will not go down in history as one of the world's greatest wooers of women.”

Source: Clockwork Princess

Family, Loyalty

“I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.”

Source: Clockwork Princess

Women, World, Fear, History

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

People, Birth, Sister, Siblings

“I have one brother and I live with four hundred guys. Girls under the age of fourteen are the most frightening creatures I have ever come across.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

Age, Guy, Girl

“You've managed-- in our short three years together-- to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiance. That's kind of like a homicidal hat trick. It's a strange foundation for a relationship, wouldn't you say?”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Hero of Ages

God

“Bite your lips, little brother… Don't cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now… Wait. Clench your teeth and wait…”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

Hate, Waiting, Cry, Anger

“Isabelle," she said, lightening her tone with an obvious effort, "your loyalty to your friend is understandable --"
"He's not my friend." Isabelle looked over at Jace, who was staring at her in a sort of daze. "He's my brother.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Understanding, Effort, Loyalty

“My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

Men

“When Rydstrom shut the door, Cade stared at it for long moments.
At length, he turned for the steps. "Fuckall," he said on a stunned breath. "Does this mean I'm no longer the bad brother…?”

Kresley Cole American writer

“Do you know why the big brother is born first? It’s to protect the little brothers and sisters that come after him. A brother telling his sister, "I’ll kill you"… You never, ever say something like that.”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Source: Bleach, Volume 01

“Wo men shi jie bai xiong di-we are more than brothers, Will.”

“You know, when someone prefers their own brother over you, it isn't a confidence booster.”

Source: Clockwork Princess

Men

“On the off chance that you have children, don't clean up at all. As children, my brother and sister and I loved waking up early and playing cocktail party with the leftover debris”

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Confidence

Amy Sedaris (1961) American comedian

Love, Children, Sister, Chance

“Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.”

Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856–1923) American writer

Life, World, Beauty, Star

“Screw the Silent Brothers."
"No thanks. There's strong and silent, and then there's just freaky."
"Isabelle!”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Strong

“But where I itty now, O my brothers, is all on my oddy knocky, where you cannot go. Tomorrow is all like sweet flowers and the turning vonny earth and the stars and the old Luna up there and your old droog Alex all on his oddy knocky seeking like a mate. And all that cal. A terrible grahzny vonny world, really, O my brothers. And so farewell from your little droog. And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries. But you, O my brothers, remember sometimes thy little Alex that was. Amen. And all that cal.”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Source: Fiction, A Clockwork Orange (1962)

World, Music, Star, Flowers

“Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

Light

“Jace was still staring at her as if she'd told him she'd found out one of the Silent Brothers doing nude cartwheels in the hallway.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Clary, pg. 325
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“She had always wanted a brother. And she had one now. Sebastian. It was like always wanting a puppy and being a hellhound instead.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“I dreamed of a green place once,” he whispered. “A manor house and a little girl with red hair, and preparations for a wedding. If there are other worlds, then maybe there is one where I was a good brother and a good son.”

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence, so that never again will Americans be free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automotive waste. And so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, brother to the other animals, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it. … We need wilderness preserved — as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds — because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed. The reminder and the reassurance that it is still there is good for our spiritual health even if we never once in ten years set foot in it.”

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

World, Dreams, Girl, Wedding

Wallace Stegner (1909–1993) American historian, writer, and environmentalist

Wilderness Letter http://wilderness.org/bios/former-council-members/wallace-stegner (1960) <br class="br">Source: The Sound of Mountain Water

People, Health, Books, World

“Amy Cahill didn't believe in omens. But black snow was falling, the earth was rumbling beneath her feet, her brother was meowing, and her uncle Alistair was prancing on the beach in pink pajamas.
She had to admit, the signs were not promising.”

Peter Lerangis book The Viper's Nest

Source: The Viper's Nest

“Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.”

Yann Martel (1963) Canadian author best known for the book Life of Pi

Faith, Sister

“I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi

Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

Hate

“Damon’s voice was no louder than before. “Get away from my brother.” Bonnie could feel it inside him, a swell of Power like a tsunami. He continued, “Before I tear your heart out.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: The Fury / Dark Reunion

Feeling, Tear, Heart

“Through many waters borne, brother, I am come to thy sad grave, that I may give these last gifts to the dead. Forever and ever, brother, hail. Forever and ever, farewell.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Princess

Sadness, Water, Dead

“So, technically," Simon said, "even though Jace isn't actually related to you, you have kissed your brother.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Kiss

“But I watch my brothers give their hearts away and I think, Don’t you know better? Hearts are breakable. And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before.”

“He was marrying my girl, and I couldn’t do anything about it. I just had to watch it happen, because he was my brother, because I promised..”

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Thinking, Heart

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Girl

“Nick cleared his throat. “Do not … and I mean do … not … take this the wrong way, okay?” He wrapped his arms around Ash and hugged him. “I will always be your brother,” he whispered in Ash’s ear. “And I won’t ever hate you.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Inferno

Hate, Way

“Besides, you think I'm not used to hurting? For me, it's home sweet home, my brother.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Awakened

Home, Thinking, Hurt

“Get away from my brother." - Damon”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Dark Reunion

“Join us next time for Days of the Undead when Rachel learns her long lost brother is really a crown prince from outer space.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Every Which Way But Dead

Learning, Time

“I bought my brother some gift-wrap for Christmas. I took it to the gift wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Christmas

“I racked my brain trying to remember the names of all of Nut’s five children. Bit difficult without my brother, the human Wikipedia, around to keep track of such trivia for me.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Children

“Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs.”

Jim Butcher book Cold Days

Source: Cold Days

Women

“I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.”

Holly Black book Red Glove

Source: Red Glove

Dead

“The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish that he was my brother and you weren't." - Clary”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Love, Truth

“They're not so bad. They just need some attention…. Like pets. Or my brother.”

Rick Riordan book The Serpent's Shadow

Source: The Serpent's Shadow

“What strange creatures brothers are!”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

“No stonger allies no greater friends no bigger fighters of honor could a king behould then these assembled afore me mine brothers mine blood”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Avenged

“How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now.”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Source: A Clockwork Orange

“Yes, men are pigs. Except your brother, of course. He's actually a decent human being. Almost a woman.

-Jillian's mother”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Catch a Mate

Men

“Brother Zachariah. Months January through December of the Hot Silent Brothers Calendar.”

“Okay. I'll help you fight. What do you think we're up against? Bears, Coyotes…"
"My Brother.”

Isabelle Lightwood, about Brother Zachariah/Jem Carstairs, pg. 694
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 1

Thinking, Help, Fight

“My brother broke into a toothy grin. "Yay! Your brain works!”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

“I am your brother. I was supposed to be your brother before either of us was born. Karmic debt. It appears I was Vlad the Impaler or Genghis Khan in a past life.”

Rob Thurman (1950) American writer

Source: Blackout

Life, Appearance, Past

“Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.”

Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer

Source: Incantation

Time, Forgetting

“Sometimes, dear brother, I know so well what I want. I am quite able to do without God, both in my life and in my painting, but what I cannot do without, unwell as I am, is something greater than myself, which is my life, the power to create.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

Life, God, Painting

“You might want to put some clothes on' suggested Jace 'I'm all for the bra and panties look, but you don't want the Silent Brothers to die of excitement”

“We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.”

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Clothes

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

“There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

Lovers, Time

“Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."

--From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

World

“He’d learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly side of things. After Tyson the Cyclops adopted him as a brother, Percy decided that that was about as far as he wanted to extend the family.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Family, Learning

“You should see his older brother,” said Jem. “Makes Gabriel look sweeter than gingerbread. Hates Will even more thanGabriel, too, if that’s possible.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Hate

“Atque in pepetuum, frater, ave atque vale,” he whispered. The words of the poem had never seemed so fitting: Forever and ever, my brother, hail and farewell.”

“Percy blinked. “So your brother is a winged horse. But you’re also my half brother, which means all the flying horses in the world are my…You know what? Lets’ forget it.”

Source: Clockwork Princess

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

World, Horse, Flying, Forgetting

“I love Jere more than anybody. He’s my brother, my family. I hate myself for doing this. But when I see you two together, I hate him too.” His voice broke.
“Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Love, Hate, Family

“Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn't love me - I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.”

Aimee Bender (1969) Novelist, short story writer

Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Love, Moms, Water, Daughters

“I can’t undo the past. But in the future, I will gladly lay my life down for you, brother. (Styxx)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Second Chances

Life, Past, Future

“As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

Source: Prozac Nation

“Man has no right to kill his brother, it is no excuse that he does so in uniform. He only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet

Article 19 <br class="br"> "Declaration of Rights" http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/PShelley/declarat.html (1812)

“Now isn't that nice!' said the old lady. 'If cousins are the right kind, they're best of all: kinder than sisters and brothers, and closer than friends.”

Elizabeth Enright book Gone-Away Lake

Source: Gone-Away Lake

“Did Brother Zachariah just steal our cat?”