big sisters Quotes

“Star always did stuff, cleaned her up and looked after her when she was really bad. I don’t know how to do it. I don’t know how to do anything without Star. She’s not just like my sister. She’s like my mum too. And my best friend. And now she’s walked out on me and I haven’t got anyone.”

″‘You’re going to be okay Magda. I won’t let anything happen to you.’ Magda forces a small smile. ‘That’s my line. I’m your big sister, I look after you.‘”

“To ask your big sister to be your ally is like asking Nova Scotia to go into battle with you.”

“Always she had protected Peter, had smoothed things out and made them easy for him- molly-coddled him like an anxious hen her father had once said. But how could she protect him now?”

″‘All right, Peter,’ she whispered. ‘I’m here.’ She felt the tension ebb slowly out of him, the trembling die gradually away. When a boy is only eight a big sister of thirteen can be wonderfully comforting.”