A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves—a special kind of double.

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"Something that is loved is never lost."

- Toni Morrison

Love

"Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all."

- Toni Morrison

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"Don't ever think I fell for you or fell over you. I didn't fall in love; I rose in it."

- Toni Morrison

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"I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was 12 or 13. He said, ‘You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it.’ And I said, ‘But, Daddy, no one’s going to see it!’ And he said, ‘Yeah, but I know it’s there.’"

- Toni Morrison

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"She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind."

- Toni Morrison

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"She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"We should never judge someone based on their appearance."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"Beauty and ugliness are merely subjective labels. What matters is who we are inside."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"When we see beyond appearances, we discover the true essence of a person."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"Worry is a misuse of imagination."

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