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092621b "Don't walk in front of me... I may not follow friends friendship misattributed-albert-camus Albert Camus
8aedea1 Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. dogs friends books humor Groucho Marx
16691ef It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. friends J.K. Rowling
22b33ce This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about. attributed-no-source friends heartbreak life love inspirational sisters Marilyn Monroe
9f7fad3 When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. empathy friends friendship inspirational Henri Nouwen
6d1c8e7 I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. friends social parties J.R.R. Tolkien
020eff4 Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. loneliness friends friendship life Haruki Murakami
cc9d2d3 Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure. letting-go freedom friends friendship Stephen King
b0caca8 I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend. The kind of person you can tell anything to, no matter how bad, and they'll still love you, because they know you. I wanted to go with her. I wanted her to notice me. And then she stopped walking. Under the moon, she stopped. And looked at us. She looked at me. Maybe she was trying to tell me something; I don't know. She probably didn't even know I was there. But I'll always love her. All my life. friends love Neil Gaiman
1dc4a08 "What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with a terrible fury in his face. "Only innocent lives, Peter!" "You don't understand!" whined Pettigrew. "He would have killed me, Sirius!" "THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!" roared Black. "DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!" friends treachery traitor J.K. Rowling
5a7d7eb My heart is warm with the friends I make friends inspirational train Edna St. Vincent Millay
d13fbeb I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family. friends family friendship Jim Butcher
b9a43fe If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly. responsibility friends motivational success life inspirational accountability purpose Steve Maraboli
8e03dc2 " "Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye." laughter doubt sorrow friends hope life love wisdom idleness foes inventory contentment sufficienty superfluity unattainable envy curiosity knowledge values Dorothy Parker
919508c How would your life be different if...You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day...You speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same. relationships friends motivational life inspirational encouragement gossip Steve Maraboli
2661a14 Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same. friends friendship exigence favor Arthur Conan Doyle
5bd5d57 This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends. friends Cornelia Funke
fab2785 Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family. friends Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
455588e Be silent and safe -- silence never betrays you true silence poetry friends trust work motivational inspirational praise advice judgement safety John Boyle O'Reilly
da39bee What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence. friends friendship life proust-questionnaire rushdie Christopher Hitchens
b4000aa The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! loneliness kindness friends family insincerity pretense Edith Wharton
5392ad1 Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones? friends life love inspirational Jenny Han
3a7d403 I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It's moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest. friends venting talking David Levithan
ef7432f You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone. friends friendship William S. Burroughs
5c01ba7 A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold. reading friends learning sharing-books sharing reading-books Henry Miller
1ec67d0 To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies. friends success Sidney Sheldon
23cfd40 The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she's a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever scared her friends. friends fear daja sandry Tamora Pierce
7ffe76d Do not be deceived: bad company corrupts good morals. friends company deceit morals Anonymous
8db28b2 "He looked at his friend, perhaps for the last time, and said what he had always known, from the moment they'd met, when he'd understood that the prince was his brother in soul. "I love you." friends friendship love chaol dorian chaol-westfall throne-of-glass dorian-havilliard heir-of-fire sarah-j-maas friendship-and-love Sarah J. Maas
eebfc97 Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive. friends Terry Pratchett
87d4d7f People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked? friends mirrors naked society Jean-Paul Sartre
ef9a085 It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character. friends friendship supporters fake-friends judgmental judgmental-people support reliance defend speak judgment cowardice Mary Shelley
fa7f5b0 You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it. friends schoolmates pity school Christopher Hitchens
3e20aad I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends! friends Charlotte Brontë
53fc663 If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own. friends friendship respect Charlotte Brontë
4e654fb This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you. friends secret shopaholic secrets Sophie Kinsella
7efb2fa Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time. friends humor Tamora Pierce
11c7b64 Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends. understanding time friends friendship reflection Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
01fad10 God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other. influence friends friendship Ray Bradbury
1e84f6d Every gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to identify it, dreading the inevitable downswing that is sure to follow. The guests will repeat themselves one too many times, or you'll run out of dope or liquor and realize that it was all you ever had in common. friends entertaining socializing drugs David Sedaris
ed9a745 Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind. loneliness friends city-of-fallen-angels cassandra-clare vampire Cassandra Clare
efc4624 "He made it very clear that he didn't want me here," she said at last. "That my remaining at the Institute is not the happy chance I thought it was. Not in his view." "And after I just finished telling you why you should consider him family," Jem said, a bit ruefully. "No wonder you looked as if I'd just told you something awful just happened." "I'm sorry," Tessa whispered. "Don't be. It's Will who ought to be sorry." Jem's eyes darkened. "We shall throw him out onto the streets," he proclaimed. "I promise you he'll be gone by morning." Tessa started and sat upright. "Oh - no, you can't mean that-" He grinned. "Of course I don't. But you did feel better for a moment there, didn't you?" friends jem-carstairs rejection Cassandra Clare
1422d54 "Jane's stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them." -Anne Shirley" reading writing friends humor L.M. Montgomery
19bea1e Don't let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden. friends motivational inspirational weeds garden flowers Steve Maraboli
625622f "I started to walk away, but she [Clarisse] called out, "Percy?" "Yeah?" "When you, uh, had that vision about your friends..." "You were one of them," I promised, "Just don't tell anybody, okay? Or I'de have to kill you." A faint smile flickered across her face "See you later." "See you" friends demigod percy-jackson Rick Riordan
2e06e15 Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go. friends friendship owls T.H. White
9b1c5ad "No, Harry, you listen," said Hermione. "We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really." harry-potter friends trust love hermione dedication j-k-rowling powerful J.K. Rowling
724f540 "He did not know or care whether they were wizards or Muggles, friends or foes; all he cared about was that a dark stain was spreading across Dobby's front, and that he had stretched out his thin arms to Harry with a look of supplication. Harry caught him and laid him sideways on the cool grass. "Dobby, no, don't die, don't die -" The elf's eyes found him, and his lips trembled with the effort to form words. "Harry...Potter..." And then with a little shudder the elf became quite still, and his eyes were nothing more than great glassy orbs, sprinkled with light from the stars they could not see." harry-potter friends death love dobby why j-k-rowling sad loyalty J.K. Rowling
7f742a0 They do not love, that do not show their love. gratitude friends love insparational william-shakespeare William Shakespeare
761725e Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship. silence friends friendship philosophy Norman Maclean
98eca82 Being in love with your best friend is problematic. fate pain friends life-quotes davin i-m-in-love love-issues love-problems best-friend-love best-friend-quotes friends-to-lovers friendship-and-love ignoring-issues in-love-with-best-friend in-love-with-my-friend mazing-quotes awesome-quotes bandaids first-aid friend-quotes friendship-true-and-loyal frienship j-m-richards real-friends real-friendship tall-dark-streak-of-lightning tdsol quotes-about-life friendship-quotes so-true best-friends bitterness hurt friend longing J.M. Richards
2f552ef I survive at the edge of friends circles. dark friends motives deceit lie sad Holly Black
eae5c8b Friends may come and go but enemies accumulate. friends Jayne Ann Krentz
6d491ac Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table--it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket--that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep. friends life Virginia Woolf
8b3a776 I do not concern myself with my inability to feel such comfort amidst humans (other than with very few friends and family), but, rather, am simply thankful that at least dogs exist, and I'm humbly aware of how much less a person I'd be - how less a human - if they did not exist. friends family exist Rick Bass
44551d4 I feel like Amy wanted people to believe she really was perfect. And as we got to be friends, I got to know her. And she wasn't perfect. You know? She was brilliant and charming and all that, but she was also controlling and OCD and a drama queen and a bit of a liar. Which was fine by me. It just wasn't fine by her. She got rid of me because I knew she wasn't perfect. friends friendship lack-of-understanding lacking gillian-flynn breakups drama-queen control Gillian Flynn
b4e6a40 Enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can. fiction friends Arundhati Roy
470dd47 Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach. people friends friendship life-lessons benefits classification social-gaps social-ladder doors social-classes society selection hypocrisy exploitation loyalty Paulo Coelho
a3dec34 Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends. friends Chuck Palahniuk
a7ac17d "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." dark friends humor Holly Black
4aaced0 As much as I cared about him, I wasn't a slave to fate. I could choose to ignore my feelings, strong as they were. It would be painful, but no more so than letting myself pine for my friend. fate pain friends life-quotes best-friend-love best-friend-quotes friends-to-lovers friendship-and-love ignoring-issues in-love-with-best-friend in-love-with-my-friend mazing-quotes arguments awesome-quotes bandaids first-aid friend-quotes friendship-true-and-loyal frienship j-m-richards real-friends real-friendship tall-dark-streak-of-lightning tdsol quotes-about-life friendship-quotes so-true best-friends bitterness hurt friend longing J.M. Richards
2545e0b "And since I'm marrying into the Quartet, I have certain privileges and duties. If you're sleeping with Laurel--" "I'm not sleeping with Laurel. We're dating." "Right, and the two of you are just going to hold hands, admire the moon, and sing camp songs." "For a while. Minus the singing." relationships friends funny humor Nora Roberts
b3d26e0 "Oh, look, the lights are so pretty," I said dreamily, having just noticed them. I smiled at the way the lights were dancing overhead, pink and yellow and blue. I felt some pressure on my arm and thought, I should look over and see what's going on, but then the thought was gone, sliding away like Jell-O off a hot car hood. "Fang?" "Yeah. I'm here." I struggled to focus on him. "I'm so glad you're here." "Yeah, I got that." "I don't know what I'd do without you." I peered up at him, trying to see past the too-bright lights. "You'd be fine," he muttered. "No," I said, suddenly struck by how unfine I would be. "I would be totally unfine. Totally." It seemed very urgent that he understand this. Again I felt some tugging on my arm, and I really wondered what that was about. Was Ella's mom going to start this procedure any time soon? "It's okay. Just relax." He sounded stiff and nervous. "Just...relax. Don't try to talk." "I don't want my chip anymore," I explained groggily, then frowned. "Actually, I never wanted that chip." "Okay," said Fang. "We're taking it out." "I just want you to hold my hand." "I am holding your hand." "Oh. I knew that." I drifted off for a few minutes, barely aware of anything, but feeling Fang's hand still in mine. "Do you have a La-Z-Boy somewhere?" I roused myself to ask, every word an effort. "Um, no," said Ella's voice, somewhere behind my head. "I think I would like a La-Z-Boy," I mused, letting my eyes drift shut again. "Fang, don't go anywhere." "I won't. I'm here." "Okay. I need you here. Don't leave me." "I won't." "Fang, Fang, Fang," I murmured, overwhelmed with emotion. "I love you. I love you sooo much." I tried to hold out my arms to show how much, but I couldn't move them. "Oh, jeez," Fang said, sounding strangled." comfort friends friendship love dizziness don-t-go operation saying-i-love-you holding-hands procedure together otp i-love-you James Patterson
48eba9c It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust. pain friends trust myrnin morganville-vampires Rachel Caine
bd73414 I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought! romance people friends love elizabeth-gaskell lily-of-the-valley molly-gibson wives-and-daughters flowers Elizabeth Gaskell
db9de52 That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself. happy fun friends books funny quote friendship life love gossip-girl book quotes knowledge Cecily von Ziegesar
dcb566f Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away. people friends enemies Ellis Peters
71bf3b1 Friends are a weird thing. It seems like they know all about you, but then they don't understand you at all. friends friendship Natsuo Kirino
1f802b7 "The Eleven king looked sternly upon Thorin, when he was brought before him, and asked him many questions. But Thorin would only say that he was starving. "Why did you and your folk three times try to attack my people at their merrymaking?" asked the king. "We did not attack them," answered Thorin, "we came to beg because we were starving." "Where are your friends now, and what are they doing?" "I don't know, but I expect that they're all starving in the forest." "What were you doing in the forest?" "Looking for food and drink, because we were starving." "And what brought you into the forest at all?" asked the king angrily. At that Thorin shut his mouth and would not say another word." friends thorin-oakenshield the-hobbit starving elves food king J.R.R. Tolkien
83245ec Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time I ever felt awkward about this precious idea, which seemed somehow to risk diminishment if it were uttered aloud. friends friendship martin-amis best-friends Christopher Hitchens
bb24e45 Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be to be accepted. Belonging, on the other hand, doesn't require us to change who we are; it requires us to be who we are. friends identity peers maturity Brené Brown
aff24f5 Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn't marry an idiot. friends humor love Julia Quinn
278946c It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow. friends friendship descriptions together friend shadows running childhood Ray Bradbury
53bf6f8 Sadly for my wedding plans, I learned that Nestor is a bardash. I envy the men who enjoy his favors. He has always treated me with friendship which I now value more than my old romantic feelings. friends homosexuality Tamora Pierce
345669d Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given' their lives. But on what assurance did we know that these gifts had really been made? Only the survivors--the living--could attest to it. In order to know that a person had truly laid down his life for his friends, or comrades, one would have to hear it from his own lips, or at least have heard it promised in advance. And that presented another difficulty. Many brave and now dead soldiers had nonetheless been conscripts. The known martyrs--those who actually, voluntarily sought death and rejoiced in the fact--had been the kamikaze pilots, immolating themselves to propitiate a 'divine' emperor who looked (as Orwell once phrased it) like a monkey on a stick. Their Christian predecessors had endured torture and death (as well as inflicted it) in order to set up a theocracy. Their modern equivalents would be the suicide murderers, who mostly have the same aim in mind. About people who set out to lose their lives, then, there seems to hang an air of fanaticism: a gigantic sense of self-importance unattractively fused with a masochistic tendency to self-abnegation. Not wholesome. The better and more realistic test would therefore seem to be: In what cause, or on what principle, would you your life? suicide war christianity friends sacrifice death religion christian-martyrs conscription kamikaze memorials poppies self-abnegation suicide-attack martyrs masochism orwell november comrades soldiers theocracy ugliness causes martyrdom self-importance patriotism principles fanaticism childhood torture Christopher Hitchens
131c9e0 "I think they ought to know. You do them a disservice by not confiding something this important to them." "I didn't want --" "-- to worry or frighten them?" said Dumbledore, surveying Harry over the top of his half-moon spectacles. "Or perhaps, to confess that you yourself are worried and frightened? You need your friends, Harry. As you so rightly said, Sirius would not have wanted you to shut yourself away." friends J.K. Rowling
ad7c490 And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it. friends fight Naomi Novik
29b62a5 He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had friends otherland tad-williams Tad Williams
ceba3ab Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise. friends friendship trust-friends-betrayal friendships friend Gregory David Roberts
d647256 Karakarof spat onto the ground at Dumbledore's feet. In one swift movement, Hagrid seized the front of Karkaroff's furs, lifted him into the air, and slammed him against a nearby tree. harry-potter friends stand-up-for-friends hagrid j-k-rowling powerful J.K. Rowling
04b3085 "You know, maybe we don't need enemies." "Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take." friends friendship humor enemies-and-friends Bill Watterson
940bef5 One way to tell if you're really comfortable with a person is if you can be quiet together sometimes and not feel awkward. If you don't feel obligated to say something brilliant or funny or surprising or cool. You can just be together. You can just . friends friendship love contentment Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
50a7ad3 "You need a place just a click over middle range. Don't want to go all-out first time, but you don't want to run on the cheap either. You want atmosphere, but not stuffy. A nice established place." "Bob, you're going to give me an ulcer." "This is all ammunition, Cart. All ammo. You want to be able to order a nice bottle of wine. Oh, and after dinner, if she says how she doesn't want dessert, you suggest she pick one and you'll split it. Women love that. Sharing dessert's sexy. Do not go on and on about your job over dinner. Certain death. Get her to talk about hers, and what she likes to do. Then--" "Should I be writing this down?" friends humor love friendships Nora Roberts
014ec2f Some nights, we were a city of two. friends holoscaust sweet sad night Jerry Spinelli
09475f6 "Very well." "Say it." "Say what?" "Say my name. Say, 'Very well, Dorian.'" She rolled her eyes. "If it pleases Your Magnanimous Holiness, I shall call you by your first name." friends dorian Sarah J. Maas
8c52df1 The best way to know a city is to eat it. travel friends home food Scott Westerfeld
9ad274d old stories are like old friends (...) you have to visit them from time to time. friends visiting home stories George R.R. Martin
0c67bee We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day. live friends together L.M. Montgomery
6233ddc The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that. friends disciplined-christian elisabeth-elliot Elisabeth Elliot
9de5c55 But even if every house looked identical-if all the furnishings were the same- it still wouldn't feel like yours. That's because home isn't where you are. It's who you're with. friends nice home Jodi Picoult
43b4e5f There came an awful day when I picked up the phone and knew at once, as one does with some old friends even before they speak, that it was Edward. He sounded as if he were calling from the bottom of a well. I still thank my stars that I didn't say what I nearly said, because the good professor's phone pals were used to cheering or teasing him out of bouts of pessimism and insecurity when he would sometimes say ridiculous things like: 'I hope you don't mind being disturbed by some mere wog and upstart.' The remedy for this was not to indulge it but to reply with bracing and satirical stuff which would soon get the gurgling laugh back into his throat. But I'm glad I didn't say, 'What, Edward, splashing about again in the waters of self-pity?' because this time he was calling to tell me that he had contracted a rare strain of leukemia. Not at all untypically, he used the occasion to remind me that it was very important always to make and keep regular appointments with one's physician. friends friendship leukemia self-pity edward-said pessimism insecurity Christopher Hitchens
4ab8943 "Maybe I just didn't want it to be Benny because he really loves her, and if I was wrong about that, it'd be depressing. Who wants to be depressed?" "Poets," Eve decided. "You have to think they must." "Okay, other than poets." poets friends humor love J.D. Robb
fd0661d (Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be separated from Mama.') I think that the lowest depth of misery ought to be distinguished from the highest pitch of anguish. In the lower depths come enforced idleness, sexual boredom, and/or impotence. At the highest pitch, the death of a friend or even the fear of the death of a child. sex friends fear death proust-questionnaire impotence mothers idleness proust misery children Christopher Hitchens
9d30757 She was spoiled, but she wasn't lazy. She knew what she wanted, and because she believed absolutely that she could have everything she wanted if she tried hard enough to get it, she never stopped trying. woman happy fun friends books funny quote strength friendship life love gossip-girl book quotes knowledge Cecily von Ziegesar
ad4f7c8 Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness. loneliness hate mortality immortality friends love lifeboat stranded desperate blame society enemies guilt mental-illness Joseph Conrad
09a12a3 "Do you know, Mrs. Allan, I'm thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much." "True friendship is a very helpful thing indeed," said Mrs. Allan, "and we should have a very high ideal of it , and never sully it by any failure in truth and sincerity. I fear the name of friendship is often degraded to a kind of intimacy that had nothing of real friendship in it." friends beauty friendship l-m-montgomery thankfulness L.M. Montgomery
0223ad6 So ask me if I am alright. 'I'm fine; I'm always fine.' You see this look in my eyes. 'No, I'm fine. I am always fine.' There is a corpse behind my smile. 'Listen, I am fine. Always, always fine as fine can be.' 'Are you okay?' 'I am more than okay. I am more than fine. I am wonderful! depression friends suicidal-thoughts medicine recovery mental-illness Emma Rose Kraus
03df3d1 "I suppose that means you don't want any band-aids, either," I said, a touch more bitterly than I'd meant to." friends life-quotes anna arguments awesome-quotes bandaids first-aid friend-quotes friendship-true-and-loyal frienship j-m-richards real-friends real-friendship silly-fights stupid-arguments tall-dark-streak-of-lightning tdsol quotes-about-life friendship-quotes so-true best-friends bitterness hurt friend J.M. Richards
3ebd80b It was around then that the phone rang. It was my friend Cee Cee, wanting to know if I cared to join her and Adam McTavish at the Coffee Clutch to drink iced tea and talk bad about everyone we know. friends funny suze-simon Meg Cabot
d136c1f "He opened his mouth, but stopped as he beheld her smile. Though she had no regrets about her choice, she felt something strangely like disappointment when he said, "As you wish." freedom friends dorian Sarah J. Maas
323ee7a "They were your friends?" "Yes, they were my friends." "And they will leave you to suffer alone?" "Now I see it." "And until this, were they friends you could trust?" "I could trust them." "I see what you mean. You mean they were the kind of friends that a good man could choose, upright, hard-working, obeying the law? Tell me, were they such friends? And now they leave you alone? Did you not see it before?" "I saw it." friends friendship cry-the-beloved-country Alan Paton
d005285 Best friends one, and now we have almost nothing to say to each other. It was interesting, how he had joined those guys and I just stayed on my own. I didn't like it or dislike it. It was just funny that things had turned out that way. friends funny the-way-things-turn-out interesting like Markus Zusak
5f77319 Travel in contested territory. Hard-working writing and reading when safely home, in the knowledge that an amusing friend is later coming to dinner. travel reading writing friends Christopher Hitchens
cfc1cf5 You don't appreciate a faithful husband when you've got one,' said Tommy. 'All my friends tell me you never know with husbands,' said Tuppance. 'You have the wrong kind of friends,' said Tommy. friends funny humor faithfulness husband-and-wife-relationship tommy-and-tuppance husband Agatha Christie
01bedc9 "Of course what I'm about to share isn't true for me but... Friends, somebody said, are "god's apology for relations." (p. 129)" friends family death Christopher Hitchens
6b0fffb I liked how your teacher said we were 'kindred spirits'. I looked that up on m-w .com and it says that means we are related spirits, like family who is not blood family. I told Mamaw this and she said, 'Sometimes that's the best family of all. friends kindred-spirits Silas House & Neela Vaswani
1551151 He understood it when other kids were mean to him. It didn't bother him. He simply hated them. As long as he hated them, it didn't matter what they thought of him. kids hate friends Louis Sachar
9397687 I know we didn't accomplish anything, but it felt great to sit there and talk about our place in things. existence friends life life-roles existentialism Stephen Chbosky
28a0491 It was if we all sensed we'd be gone someday soon in a sudden instant--often it happened in the middle of the night--and didn't want to get involved. Or else it was that none of us wanted to know anybody later on who was the way we were now. friends Richard Ford
40d6e57 We would never go shopping together or eat an entire cake while we complained about men. He'd never invite me over to his house for dinner or a barbecue. We'd never be lovers. But there was a very good chance that one of us would be the last person the other saw before we died. It wasn't friendship the way most people understood it, but it was friendship. There were several people I'd trust with my life, but there is no one else I'd trust with my death. Jean-Claude and even Richard would try to hold me alive out of love or something that passed for it. Even my family and other friends would fight to keep me alive. If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living. friends living death friendship laurell-k-hamilton edward-forrester obsidian-butterfly ted-forrester anita-blake-vampire-hunter soulmates bromance Laurell K. Hamilton
f4efddf I laugh, because he knew what I was thinking, and very few people ever know what I'm thinking. thoughts friends relationship love understading Lois Lowry
a257d3a "All my life, I have been searching for a home," the drow said quietly. "All my life, I have been wanting more than that which was offered to me, more than Menzoberranzan, more than friends who stood beside me out of personal gain. I always thought home would be a place, and indeed it is, but not in any physical sense. It is a place in here," Drizzt said, putting a hand to his heart and turning back to look upon his companions. "It is a feeling given by true friends. I know this now, and know that I am home." "But ye're off to Carradoon," Cattie-brie said softly. "And so're we!" Bruenor bellowed. Drizzt smiled at them, laughed aloud. "If circumstances will not allow me to remain at home," the ranger said firmly, "then I will simply take my home with me!" friends home R.A. Salvatore
bd8997c Please allow me the honour of allowing you to bestow upon me a blowjob. friends blowjob boy girl honour Daniel Clowes
1c9d77f "Why'd you want to kill yourself? Didn't you feel anything, or didn't it hurt you?" Mandy questioned, looking puzzled. "Yes, I suppose it did, ... it was strange, it was sharp, that's all I can think of to describe it... and cold, but not cold like ice, more like... I don't know, like something much worse, something horrible... and it seemed like the ground was falling upwards, becoming the sky... for a moment it made me consider that it was just a dream, that I was on some sort of drug, and then I remember being overjoyed to see the sky was still above me, then just really sad, really tired... and then I don't remember much else about it," Alecto told her, glaring straight ahead at the sky with narrowed eyes. "I don't mind, I'm not supposed to mind, anyway. Mearth already told me that eventually I would want to be dead, that it was inevitable... still, I sometimes wish that I could have done something good for other people in my life, it might have made up for all the bad stuff I've done." suicide grief loss dark friends death sadness friendship dysfunctional swing-set confusion morbid spooky creepy canada help friend self-harm self-mutilation halloween drugs dying nostalgia Rebecca McNutt
f10b249 "You should find something better to do with your time," Mandy told him. "I spend my time shooting people, and then I take them to darkrooms and blow them up." "...Come again?" Alecto questioned with a tone of alarm in his voice. "I take photographs and develop them myself, I've got my own darkroom... it was a joke," Mandy laughed. "I love photography and I'm gonna be a photojournalist someday." "Really?" Alecto asked. For the first time since she'd met him, he sounded slightly enthusiastic. "...I take photographs and I film my own home movies, I have a darkroom as well... but I can't be a photojournalist like you... I can't be anything... still, at least I can take photographs, it's fun." photography murder friends funny humor april-fool-s blow-up chemical dark-room demented instamatic nikon photography-humor home-movies kodak darkroom super-8 disturbing develop camera enthusiasm shoot weird film strange hilarious joke crazy insane Rebecca McNutt
debc2ba You do not understand' said Pippin. 'You must go - and therefore we must too. Merry and I are coming with you. Sam is an excellent fellow, and would jump down a dragon'r throat to save you, if he did not trip over his own feet; but you will need more than one companion in your dangerous adventure. friends companions J.R.R. Tolkien
168de9f I never advise friends to put money in anything,. said Danny. 'It's a no-win situation - if they make a profit they forget that it was you who recommended it, and if they make a loss they never stop reminding you. My only advise would be not to gamble what you can't afford, and never to risk an amount that might cause you to lose a night's sleep money sleep loss risk friends afford recommend gamble investment win Jeffrey Archer
26e95c0 Well, I will wear the bees, like Damon and Pythagoras - ho, a mere sixty thousand bees in the cabin don't signify, much. friends friendship jack-aubrey Patrick O'Brian
e645f53 I shrug. I don't really need to explain this to Aaron. He's been demoted from most important friend to friend, and he's going to have to earn that, even. And you know what else? I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to. friends friendship Ned Vizzini
60407ba I should send my bees ashore for you, upon my sacred honour. friends sacrifice friendship jack-aubrey Patrick O'Brian
0ee66d1 I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary characters acquire in the reader's mind. No matter how many times we reopen 'King Lear,' never shall we find the good king banging his tankard in high revelry, all woes forgotten, at a jolly reunion with all three daughters and their lapdogs. Never will Emma rally, revived by the sympathetic salts in Flaubert's father's timely tear. Whatever evolution this or that popular character has gone through between the book covers, his fate is fixed in our minds, and, similarly, we expect our friends to follow this or that logical and conventional pattern we have fixed for them. fate shakespeare literature friends literary-references lolita vladimir-nabokov emma-bovary madame-bovary gustave-flaubert king-lear expectations Vladimir Nabokov
eedaa47 You are my only friend in the world, and I want to talk to you. Or, perhaps, be silent with you. silence friends G.K. Chesterton
5915692 The way you remember or dream about your loved ones - the ones who are gone - you can't stop their endings from jumping ahead of the rest of their stories. You don't get to choose the chronology of what you dream, or the order of events in which you remember someone. In your mind - in your dreams, in your memories - sometimes the story begins with the epilogue. thoughts relationships memories friends inspiration family death life love end memory nostalgia John Irving
5467aca They were laughing and their hair was shining like leaves in moonlight, their limbs long as saplings. I thought, Girls are magical at this phase, girls are invincible, nothing can touch them. I didn't think 'us' because I didn't feel that; I felt other, on the outside, watching them. friends otherness other outsider magical girls Francesca Lia Block
75758f3 Together we would make reputation, we would have men in halls across Britain telling the story of our exploit. Or of our deaths. They were friends, they were oath-men, they were young, they were warriors, and with such men it might be possible to storm the gates of Asgard itself. friends death oath-men reputation warriors Bernard Cornwell
44c16a8 The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless. travel friends friendship Tahir Shah
3bd2bdf But I feel more real when I'm around her. Like I'm not fading. friends sadness real Scott Westerfeld
de3efa9 "What are you doing?" Alecto asked in surprise, stepping back. Laughing brightly, she dragged him towards the greenhouse, the shattered glass reflecting rainbows as brilliant as a million Kodak flashcubes, glittering as they were cascaded through the breeze. "See, don't be afraid of the glass, it can't hurt us," Mandy laughed, spectacularly eccentric, her eyes reflecting the fallen glass. "I wasn't afraid of the glass, but this isn't a very secluded place that you just decided to vandalize," Alecto cautioned, smiling despite his words. Before Mandy could reply, she heard loud whispering in the air, behind the trees... it sounded like a group of people, all whispering in unison... "Somebody's out there," she exclaimed nervously. "Yeah, you're right," Alecto replied. Suddenly a sharp new vibrancy seemed to fill his eyes and he smiled coldly, taking the tree branch from Mandy and rapidly smashing in all of Mrs. Matthias' stained glass house windows with it. Blue, green, yellow, red, turquoise, purple and an array of other colors showered through the sky noisily, sounding like wind chimes and crashing waves. "They'll go away," he told her, glancing up at the sky. "...Alecto, do you like me?" Mandy questioned, holding out her arms like a lopsided scarecrow as the glass fell through her dark red hair. "Yeah, sure," he answered. "Will you be my friend, then? A real friend, not just another person who feels sorry for me?" Mandy asked. "...Alright, Mandy Valems," Alecto agreed." depression fun friends funny friendship love colored flashcube greenhouse scarecrow stained-glass vibrancy wind-chimes kodak cape-breton nova-scotia glitter cut air whispering yellow waves best-friends sorry green sharp vandalism blue canada glass growing-up red shatter trees noir friend house smile children crashing noise nostalgia Rebecca McNutt
1abc37f In the rosy glow it diffused her companions seemed full of amiable qualities. She liked their elegance; their lightness, their lack of emphasis: even the self-assurance which at times was so like obtuseness now seemed the natural sign of social ascendency. They were lords of the only world she cared for, and they were ready to admit her to their ranks and let her lord it with them. Already she felt within her a stealing allegiance to their standards, an acceptance of their limitations, a disbelief in the things they did not believe in, a contemptuous pity for the people who were not able to live as they lived. friends edith-wharton the-house-of-mirth Edith Wharton
c90a551 They were actually sitting at a table, like two old friends, not like the hunter and the hunted. And it wasn't especially awkward. They were comfortable together, despite the fact that she'd hit him with a bus. Maybe his scheme would work. friends comfortable table kate-o-hare lee-goldberg nick-fox janet-evanovich bus scheme hunter hunted Janet Evanovich
3477545 Now, see, that's why everybody wants Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy.' Dovey's phone buzzed, and she laughed, ignoring it. 'The trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn't agree with you, all that's left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho. friends human-connection social-media online internet Barbara Kingsolver
1db46c0 "He found himself thinking about his childhood. "Why do you drink so much, Maestro?" "This is not a music question." "Are you sad, Maestro?" "Again, not a music question." "I am sad sometimes, Maestro." "Practice more. Speak less. You'll be happier." "Yes, Maestro." Everyone joins a band in this life. Sometimes, they are the wrong ones." friends brotherhood community choices Mitch Albom
8889660 This is going to seem bitter but I don't mean it that way, V., I'm just stating a fact here: you'll only ever call me if I call you first. Have you noticed that? If I call and leave a message you'll call me back, but you will never call me first. And I think that's kind of a horrible thing, V., when you're supposed to be someone's friend. I always come to you. You always say you're my friend but you'll never come to me and I think I have to stop listening to your words, V., and take stock instead of your actions. My friend C. thinks my expectations of friendship are too high but I don't think he's right. Take care, V. I'll miss you. friends expectations Emily St. John Mandel
5e3060f Understand something people, we will be hated by many in the name of Christ, ridiculed, mocked, stoned, slaughtered. We will be fined, jailed and killed for our love for Christ. You are supposed to see better with your eyes today, how close this is happening, just prepare your heart and soul to be braver than Peter and not deny Christ in the moment your life might be in jeopardy for Him and what you believe. Apostle Pauls says to live is Christ to die is gain. money words time pain love-quotes literature marriage mind grief feminism loss history reading prayer nature world depression people women freedom dream joy future politics friends leadership quote work inspirational-quotes life-quotes living motivation family destiny imagination fantasy dreams sadness positive-thinking strength music friendship motivational spiritual heart endtime fiction-food-for-though humanity-humour intelligence-is-attractive life-and-living-life-philosophy magic-spirit meditation-men passion-peace patience-johnson pentecost reality-relationship trust-war earning motivational-quotes repentance wisdom-quotes society purpose quotes forgiveness self-improvement power self-help soul patience psychology Patience Johnson
ff44d29 I used to think to myself that I was the last kind of person who should have a guardian angel, but then I realized that maybe my type of person is the kind who angels come to first. worth friends friendship love type guardian-angel first person Rebecca McNutt
8d02f2f It was a night where the rogue drow felt tiny, and yet grand, a part of something ancient, eternal, and as vast as his imagination and as warm as the love among these five freinds surrounding him ... friends feelings-of-love R.A. Salvatore
af88a0e Make enemies if you have to- and you will- but always make sure the most powerful stay your friends. friends Sarah Dunant
0886c53 I have no close friends, that is, no friends. friends the-green-knight iris-murdoch isolated friendless lonely Iris Murdoch
1c60b32 I am not bothered by the silence. For all the noise I make with my friends, I am still not comfortable talking about my feelings in front of others - especially not classmates. classmates silence feelings friends others uncomfortable talk noise Mitch Albom
d1870c3 "friend" is a word whose sharp corners have been worn smooth by overuse." friends friendship Grady Hendrix
89b373a Everyone who I called my friends, persons who I used to hang out with, these were the individuals who formed and made up the gang known as the Rebellion Raiders. So when the gang was formed I was automatically a part of it, because it was formed by my friends. I didn't have to go out and join the gang. Troit Lynes, former death row inmate of Her Majesty Prison in the Bahamas friends hanging-out joining-a-gang misguided-youth wanting-to-be-apart death-row-inmates wanting-to-belong gang-members rebellion-raiders Drexel Deal
ddb885b Our enemies make us strong, Miss Muffet, not our friends. Our friends will lie to us, tell us what we need to hear. Forgive us. We must keep a few good enemies on hand, always, to keep us sharp and teach us never to do anything that needs forgiveness. friends strength forgiveness Ann Rinaldi
2c56df6 She explains that often the people who mean the most to us have to be left behind because they cannot follow us along our destined path. india friends family Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
47dc5be "Back-to-back", Bayard replied, and Grimm felt the sudden, wiry pressure of the other man's shoulders pressed against the middle of his back. "I should be friends with taller people," Grimm panted. "Bite your tongue, old boy, or I'll hack apart your ankles." friends short-people Jim Butcher
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