Twins Quotes

“History has shown us time and time again that you don't have to know someone to love them with all your heart.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Has a world composed of "us" and "not us" been invaded at last?”
― Bisco Hatori, Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 2

“When twins are seperated, their spirits steal away to find the other”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“We were born in the '70s, back when twins were rare, a bit magical: cousins of the unicorn, siblings of the elves.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Conner raised an eyebrow. 'Who told you that?'

'Well,' she said, not knowing how to describe what she experienced. 'Um . . . a moth did.'

Conner squinted at her and his mouth fell open. He was expecting a much better answer than that. 'A moth told you?'

'Yes -- but it wasn't a regular moth, it was more like an angel.'

'An angel moth?'

'Well, it came from somewhere in the stars. I think Grandma sent it.'

'Grandma sent you an angel moth from outer space?'

'Kind of! Anyway, the moth took me to a forest and then turned into a bunch of orbs that re-created a memory -- stop looking at me like that, Conner!”
― Chris Colfer

“I turn around, remembering again that we got made together, cell for cell. We were keeping each other company when we didn't have any eyes or hands. Before our soul even got delivered.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there's hardly any room in her for organs. Jude and me have one soul between us that we have to share: a tree with its leaves on fire. And Dad has a plate of maggots for his.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“In every set of twins, there is one angel, one devil

When twins are separated, their spirits seal away to find the other

The right-handed twin tells the truth, the left-handed twin tells lies (Noah and I are both left-handed.)

If one twin is cut, the other will bleed”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs”
― Sherry Marie Gallagher, Boulder Blues: A Tale of the Colorado Counterculture

“If ever sorrow and suffering set their profaning marks on the youth and beauty of Miss Fairlie’s face, then, and then only, Anne Catherick and she would be the twin-sisters of chance resemblance, the living reflections of one another.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“If you are a twin, you watch yourself live two lives–yours and hers. It’s constant comparison. I am never as good as the bad I wanted her to be. I was the only soldier I needed. We couldn’t haven known what splitting would mean. Time speeds past fast, scattering like shrapnel, and is quiet as cobwebs. We wait for the ambush. Sister will find out first; she’ll be my living memory. She will be the body left standing.”
― Christa Parravani

“I'm only two hours thrity-seven minutes and thirteen seconds younger than Jude, but she always makes me feel like I'm her little brother.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Hello, my name is Albany, and I have a telepathic connection with my twin sister, along with the ability to read minds.”
― C.B. Cook, Twinepathy

“Twins need to know that they can be alone without their twin.”
― Joan A. Friedman Ph D

“I know what happened. I used my inTWINition”
― Michael Houbrick

“It’s weird how much things can change in only a few minutes. With those three words, “I don’t remember,” our entire futures were changed. Not just for me and Brooklyn, but for the little girl, and Denver, and Jenna and Blaze and – darn, I’m getting ahead of myself again. So much for trying to be dramatic.”
― C.B. Cook, Twinepathy

“When we were little, people said we looked just like twins for no better reason than we might have been wearing the same color shirt. You had to wonder if they were truly looking at us.”
― Susan Gregg Gilmore, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen

“In every set of twins, there is one angel, one devil”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“I was going to show your brother Gemini-the Twins.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“You are the male I might have been. You are the potential I had and lost. You are the honor and the strength and the kindness she needs. You'll take care of her.”
― J.R. Ward

“Because they're twins. they've got each other, wolf. This is a tough town in a tough world. But no matter how tough it get - our boys will always have each other.”
― Ben Elton

“John had been a footman nearly all of his adult life. He knew decorum and appropriate behavior for his situation. But when he glanced from one twin to another, he nearly ruined his reputation and self-respect forever with...a smile.”
― Sarah Brazytis, The Apprentices

“Misunderstood twins run away from weddings. Malevolent twins shoot the groom.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem

“We breathe and breathe and breathe together. She takes my hand and I think how otters sleep floating on their backs in water, holding hands exactly like this, so they don't drift apart in the night.
After a while, she picks up her fist. I do the same.
Rock/Rock
Scissors/Scissors
Rock/Rock
Paper/Paper
Scissors/Scissors
"Yes!" she cries. "We still got it, yes we do!”
― Jandy Nelson

“Go didn't like grilled cheese; she was scooping peanut butter out of the jar onto saltines. When a commercial break came on, she paused and said, 'If I had a dick, I would fuck this peanut butter.' deliberately spraying cracker bits toward me.
'I think if you had a dick, all sorts of bad things would happen.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“My hearts desired divine twins,
My guardian angels,
Jeremias-Jean Joachim Akita
Lia-Lachelle Lisette Akita”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Elms are dying all over the place, it's Dutch elm disease. [...] It came from America on a load of logs, and it's a fungal disease. That makes it sound even more as if it might be possible to do something. The elms are all one elm, they are clones, that's why they are all succumbing. No natural resistance among the population, because no variation. Twins are clones, too. If you looked at an elm tree you'd never think it was part of all the others. You'd see an elm tree. Same when people look at me now: they see a person, not half a set of twins.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

“Ses mains ne tremblent pas. Les jurés ont été tirés au sort lors d’une audience préalable. Elle a découvert leur visage en même temps que Carl, son avocat. Elle se demande sans cesse ce qu’ils pensent. À quoi ils pensent. Ce qu’ils ressentent lorsqu’ils posent les yeux sur elle. Ce qu’elle doit faire pour les convaincre de son innocence.”
― Fanny Joussard, Emeraude contre émeraude

“Sur son lit est étalé tout ce dont elle dispose de son dossier pénal. Tout ce que Carl lui a donné. Les procès-verbaux d’interrogatoire. Le réquisitoire. Les preuves fournies au dossier attestant de sa « culpabilité ». Les mandats de perquisition. Tout. Elle a tout. Et rien. Pas un seul indice qui puisse l’aider à trouver sa sœur. Elle ne sait rien de sa vie. Rien sauf sa haine envers elle et l’existence d’un petit ami, Joseph, qui se faisait appeler Joe. C’est invraisemblable.”
― Fanny Joussard, Emeraude contre émeraude

“It would be both an identical work of art only by virtue of its difference. The same but different, he suggested, like twins.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script