Sisterhood Quotes

Growing up and living with a family that has a sick child, is very difficult. It causes stress on the entire family because they often don’t have the answers. Everyone in the family shares some type of guilt because the child is sick. In the book, this family dealt with the challenges of Kate being sick, and the only way to treat her is the parents to have another child,Anna.
Anna comes into this world, yes because her mother and father wanted her; but also, to become a donor to her sister Kate. Anna has been Kate’s donor before she could talk, shows that their bond as sisters is stronger than ever. Sisterhood is a big and clear part of this book, we have three examples of sisterhood: Anna and Kate, Sara and Zanne, and last Julia and Izzy.

Anna states that, “Jesse is wrong- I didn’t come to see Kate because it would make me feel better. I came because without her its hard for me to remember who I am” (138). In that quote, Anna is explaining that Kate is the only person who reminds her that she means something in the world. Anna feels with no worth and doesn’t have her sister to remind her she is full of it. The next sister bond is Sara and Zanne, their bond is a support system. Sara says, “Zanne strokes my hair and lets me cry. ‘it is so hard sometimes.’ I confess, words I have not said to anyone, not even Brain” (175). Sara is telling Zanne something that she hasn’t even told her own husband. Sara is showing Zanne that she trusts he with this information and Zanne is just comforting her the whole time. The last bond is Julia and Izzy, these two has a really special bond because they were twins, meaning they have really been threw everything together even in the womb. Julia said, “Isobel is three minutes older than me, but I’ve always been the one who takes care of her. I’m her nuclear bomb: when there’s something upsetting her, I go in and lay waste it, whether that’s one of our six