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092621b "Don't walk in front of me... I may not follow friends friendship misattributed-albert-camus Albert Camus
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
b54219e Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. friendship inspirational C.S. Lewis
13d1f75 You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. friendship inspirational winnie pooh A.A. Milne
6e97659 "He must have known I'd want to leave you." "No, he must have known you would always want to come back." harry-potter friendship ron-weasley J.K. Rowling
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
57481c5 There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books. friendship Irving Stone
24141b9 The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families. friendship humor Jay McInerney
6effeb4 The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you. jealousy friendship success humor happiness inspirational Bette Midler
87de68d There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them. friendship inspirational awesome J. K. Rowling
5aec449 I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why. friendship John Steinbeck
6a4ca4d "Harry - you're a great wizard, you know." "I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him. "Me!" said Hermione. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery and - oh Harry - be careful!" friendship greatness loyalty J.K. Rowling
ee44bd9 True friends are always together in spirit. friendship true-friends together-in-spirit together L.M. Montgomery
ed3287d True friends are always together in spirit. (Anne Shirley) friendship true-friends together-in-spirit together L.M. Montgomery
077118a Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone? people friendship love philosophy possibility important thought Haruki Murakami
db82cd9 "Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up. "You're cute when you're worried," she muttered. "Your eyebrows get all scrunched together." "You are going to die while I owe you a favor," I said. "Why did you take that knife?" "You would've done the same for me." It was true. I guess we both knew it. Still, I felt like somebody was poking my heart with a cold metal rod." friendship debt favor knife percy-jackson Rick Riordan
ac166ba I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails. friendship John Green
d2d18c0 I may not always be with yo relationships poetry family friendship love inspirational Marc Wambolt
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
cd8f4c1 In friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years' difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the choice of one university instead of another...the accident of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting--any of these chances might have kept us apart. But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking no chances. A secret master of ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you," can truly say to every group of Christian friends, "Ye have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another." The friendship is not a reward for our discriminating and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others. friendship inspirational C.S. Lewis
745847b My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever. winter friendship george-r-r-martin summer George R.R. Martin
dc10265 There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. friendship happiness inspirational Charlotte Brontë
2661a14 Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same. friends friendship exigence favor Arthur Conan Doyle
82ab1ca Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend. friendship Stephen Chbosky
0d91d94 Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone. fear trust friendship inspirational communication trauma Fred Rogers
5c582c8 We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. solitude friendship privacy C.S. Lewis
0425723 Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended friendship T.S. Eliot
e1ac773 ...Who could refrain, That had a heart to love, and in that heart Courage to make love known? friendship love William Shakespeare
6d18dfe There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares. friendship harry-dresden Jim Butcher
589bb49 The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. friendship love inspirational community connection goethe Goethe
71ad0e3 Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is... Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever. They were not perfect, but they were my friends. madness friendship insanity Susanna Kaysen
da39bee What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence. friends friendship life proust-questionnaire rushdie Christopher Hitchens
4e04d0d It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire... Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. romance friendship Jane Austen
5ba1de3 The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings. meaning friendship inspirational Henry David Thoreau
765a659 The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone. friendship healing James Frey
3b11286 "Andrea raised her hand. "This is the hand that slapped Aunt B." "Maybe you should have it gold-plated." "Here, you can touch it, since you're my best friend." friendship kate banter Ilona Andrews
f9d6827 Friends don't spy; true friendship is about privacy, too. friendship privacy Stephen King
f6d725a We met less than a week ago and in that time I've done nothing but lie and cheat and betray you. I know. But if you give me a chance...all I want is to protect you. To be near you. For as long as I'm able. lies friendship love chances intstalove-done-right scarlet lunar-chronicles wolf protection Marissa Meyer
c0e43d0 I hadn't been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed. family friendship John Green
c6d0cc6 She realized that Rowan saw each of those thoughts and more as he reached into his tunic and pulled out a dagger. Her dagger. He extended it to her, it's long blade gleaming as if he'd been secretly polishing and caring for it these months. And when she grasped the dagger, it's weight lighter than she remembered, Rowan looked into her eyes, into her very core of her, and said, 'Fireheart'. friendship alike bonds breaking-point mutual-respect fireheart rowan-whitethorn heir-of-fire ties tenderness Sarah J. Maas
b2854c8 There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. marriage friendship home Homer
8d91ccb Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone. time friendship Jeanette Winterson
6b8423f ...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go. death friendship life love inspirational wwii-fiction tear-jerker holocaust John Boyne
60df5d3 And he looked lonely enough that she said, 'If you like, you could be my friend'. kids loneliness friendship liitle-dorian little-aelin dorian-havilliard Sarah J. Maas
ef7432f You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone. friends friendship William S. Burroughs
0d55cad If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. friendship inspirational honour E.M. Forster
edc1acf 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. [...] 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. Thus X will never compose the immortal music that would clash with the second-rate symphonies he has accustomed us to. Y will never commit murder. Under no circumstances can Z ever betray us. We have it all arranged in our minds, and the less often we see a particular person, the more satisfying it is to check how obediently he conforms to our notion of him every time we hear of him. Any deviation in the fates we have ordained would strike us as not only anomalous but unethical. We could prefer not to have known at all our neighbor, the retired hot-dog stand operator, if it turns out he has just produced the greatest book of poetry his age has seen. friendship Vladimir Nabokov
c2751af I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. beauty friendship god love C.S. Lewis
501f3a0 Nico scowled. 'It's none of your business, but I don't belong. That's obvious. No one wants me. I'm a child of -' 'Oh, please.' Will sounded unusually angry. 'Nobody at Camp Half-Blood ever pushed you away. You have friends - or at least people who would like to be your friend. You pushed yourself away. If you'd get your head out of that brooding cloud of yours for once - friendship will-solace nico-di-angelo Rick Riordan
cc6cedb "You're getting into some kind of shape, cop." Aw, come on, now." Butch grinned. "Don't let that shower we took go to your head." Rhage fired a towel at the male. "Just pointing out your beer gut's gone." It was a Scotch pot. And I don't miss it." friendship humor vampire J.R. Ward
4cedc73 There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings. friendship David Levithan
275cbb1 For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob. pain friendship Virginia Woolf
47740e0 The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. friendship missing-person teen-novel prom road-trip young-adults John Green
8402dfd Nobody steals books but your friends. irony books friendship inspirational stealing Roger Zelazny
1b6647c The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all. friendship C.S. Lewis
8351198 Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly. friendship gender-differences Khaled Hosseini
7d3b19d They had battled and bloodied one another, they had kept secrets, broken hearts, lied, betrayed, exiled, they had walked away, said goodbye and sworn it was forever, and somehow, every time, they had mended, they had forgiven, they had survived. Some mistakes could never be fixed - some, but not all. Some people can't be driven away, no matter how hard you try. Some friendships won't break. greed friendship end-of-series robin-wasserman seven-deadly-sins sad Robin Wasserman
14f8878 If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about? friendship love inspirational Sophie Kinsella
3b67cb5 Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. friendship inspirational flowers Georgia O'Keeffe
dd37a3c To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again. friendship heartbreak inspirational Kristin Hannah
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
a055e98 Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else. death friendship brothers Oscar Wilde
bc8556f "Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden). The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, "What? You too? I thought I was the only one." ... It is when two such persons discover one another, when, whether with immense difficulties and semi-articulate fumblings or with what would seem to us amazing and elliptical speed, they share their vision - it is then that Friendship is born. And instantly they stand together in an immense solitude." friendship love companionship C.S. Lewis
c916492 You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin - to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours - closer than you yourself keep it. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo. Anyway: there it is. We know most of what Gandalf has told you. We know a good deal about the ring. We are horribly afraid-but we are coming with you; or following you like hounds. tolkien true-love friendship middle-earth frodo merry lord-of-the-rings J.R.R. Tolkien
b91e19a There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay. friendship J.D. Robb
6da9a74 "What a desperate, pathetic fool I was. Time after time, my "friends" had shown me their true colors. Yet, I still wanted to believe they were sorry for causing me pain. p. 128" -- friendship outcasts fake-friends judgement Jodee Blanco
27458e2 A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship. loneliness friendship J. R. R. Tolkien
185d8be To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities--I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not--that one endures. friendship philosophy inspirational endurance Friedrich Nietzsche
acd7b29 Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences. lemony-snicket friendship inspirational Lemony Snicket
64aebf5 I want someone to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarrelling and reconciliation I need privacy - to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits. solitude friendship privacy companionship quietness peace Virginia Woolf
dae61ba It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody. friendship life growing-up endings Stephen Chbosky
59564c8 You know, Jacob, if it weren't for the fact that we're natural enemies and that you're also trying to steal away the reason for my existence, I might actually like you. friendship jacob-black Stephenie Meyer
56406aa "I don't feel that way anymore," Nico muttered. "I mean... I gave up on Percy. I was young and impressionable, and I- I don't..." His voice cracked, and Jason could tell the guy was about to get teary-eyed. Whether Nico had really given up on Percy or not, Jason couldn't imagine what it had been like for Nico all those years, keeping a secret that would've been unthinkable to share in the 1940s, denying who he was, feeling completely alone- even more isolated than other demigods. "Nico," he said gently, "I've seen a lot of brave things. But what you did? That was maybe the bravest." trust friendship bromance heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson house-of-hades jason-grace nico-di-angelo rick-riordan Rick Riordan
ceb1e93 It's funny how one summer can change everything. It must be something about the heat and the smell of chlorine, fresh-cut grass and honeysuckle, asphalt sizzling after late-day thunderstorms, the steam rising while everything drips around it. Something about long, lazy days and whirring air conditioners and bright plastic flip-flops from the drugstore thwacking down the street. Something about fall being so close, another year, another Christmas, another beginning. So much in one summer, stirring up like the storms that crest at the end of each day, blowing out all the heat and dirt to leave everything gasping and cool. Everyone can reach back to one summer and lay a finger to it, finding the exact point when everything changed. That summer was mine. friendship happiness love inspirational Sarah Dessen
d72c824 Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies. friendship home Orson Scott Card
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
320c56a She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn't want to be without her. fate world friendship love otp saving-the-world forget Rick Riordan
6c3c41f Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams. friendship Henry David Thoreau
95bb6bb It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends? friendship Willa Cather
d03c33a I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend. friendship heartbreak love Graham Greene
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
7ade2c6 Isabelle was holding an umbrella. It was clear plastic, decorated with decals of colorful flowers. It was one of the girliest things Simon had ever seen, and he didn't blame Alec for ducking out from under it and taking his chances with the rain. friendship lgtbq simon Cassandra Clare
efa31d2 "I get so god damn lonely and sad and filled with regrets some days. It overwhelms me as I'm sitting on the bus; watching the golden leaves from a window; a sudden burst of realisation in the middle of the night. I can't help it and I can't stop it. I'm alone as I've always been and sometimes it hurts.... but I'm learning to breathe deep through it and keep walking. I'm learning to make things nice for myself. To comfort my own heart when I wake up sad. To find small bits of friendship in a crowd full of strangers. To find a small moment of joy in a blue sky, in a trip somewhere not so far away, a long walk an early morning in December, or a handwritten letter to an old friend simply saying "I thought of you. I hope you're well." No one will come and save you. No one will come riding on a white horse and take all your worries away. You have to save yourself, little by little, day by day. Build yourself a home. Take care of your body. Find something to work on. Something that makes you excited, something you want to learn. Get yourself some books and learn them by heart. Get to know the author, where he grew up, what books he read himself. Take yourself out for dinner. Dress up for no one but you and simply feel nice. it's a lovely feeling, to feel pretty. You don't need anyone to confirm it. lovely gratitude happy trying feelings depression joy books learning life-quotes sadness friendship heart heal anxiety-disorder being-happy bus december mental-wellness panic-attacks minimalism breath deep self-care mindfulness healing prose plan breathing growing-up well sky worrying worries emotions panic moment regret learn recovery lonely sad night mental-health letters Charlotte Eriksson
72fd88d People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you live your life that matters. And the people you know. Valentine was Hodge's friend, and I don't think Hodge really had anyone else in his life to challenge him or make him be a better person. If I'd had that life, I don't know how I would have turned out. But I didn't. I have my family. And I have you. family friendship inspirational simon-lewis Cassandra Clare
50e1bdf Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic. dreams friendship humor life inspirational Mindy Kaling
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
d920bca Here's what I think. We all want someone to build a fort with. We want somebody to swap crayons with and play hide-and-seek with and live out imaginary stories with. We start out getting that from our family. Then we get it from our friends. And then, for whatever reasons, we get it in our heads that we need to get that feeling- that intimacy- from a single someone else. We call if growing up. But really, when you take sex out of it, what we want is a companion. And we make that so damn hard to find. friendship love julia companionship David Levithan
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
2be4b6d Yeah, okay. But, Nico, you choose how to live your life. You want to trust somebody? Maybe take a risk that I'm really your friend and I'll accept you. It's better than hiding. trust friendship heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson house-of-hades jason-grace nico-di-angelo rick-riordan Rick Riordan
1a449e8 Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? friendship love constancy roses companionship Emily Brontë
d95dd7c "Karrin." She looked up at me. She looked very young somehow. "Remember what I said yesterday," I said. "You're hurt. But you'll get through it. You'll be okay." She closed her eyes tightly. "I'm scared. So scared I'm sick." "You'll get through it." "What if I don't?" I squeezed her fingers. "Then I will personally make fun of you every day for the rest of your life," I said. "I will call you a sissy girl in front of everyone you know, tie frilly aprons on your car, and lurk in the parking lot at CPD and whistle and tell you to shake it, baby. Every. Single. Day." Murphy's breath escaped in something like a hiccup. She opened her eyes, a mix of anger and wary amusement easing into them in place of fear. "You do realize I'm holding a gun, right?" friendship karrin-murphy harry-dresden Jim Butcher
67c2bb2 "The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend," no Friendship can arise - though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers." friendship love truth C.S. Lewis
a50f6eb You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you. friendship love J.K. Rowling
8b51f78 It's never the value of water but thirst, it's never the value of life but death and it's never about the friendship but trust. friendship inspirational Ali Ibn Abi Talib AS
f2958c8 Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers. friendship social-networking news internet Robert A. Heinlein
4be6dd5 Saya akan pikul rahsia itu jika engkau percayakan kepada saya dan saya akan masukkan ke dalam perbendaharaan hati saya dan kemudian saya kunci pintunya erat-erat. Kunci itu akan saya lemparkan jauh-jauh sehingga seorang pun tak dapat mengambilnya kedalam lagi. secret trust friendship inspirational Hamka
4b68c67 What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words? friendship Richard Russo
fb4eabf "WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching, Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving. No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening, Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing, Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness friendship life love togetherness companionship Walt Whitman
67d5002 There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, and then all at once it gets awkward. All at once, she sees you looking at her, and then she doesn't want to joke around with you anymore, because she doesn't want to seem flirty, because she doesn't want you to think she likes you. It's such a disaster, whenever, in the course of human relationships, someone begins to chisel away at the wall of separation between friendship and kissing. Breaking down that wall is the kind of story that might have a happy middle-- oh, look, we broke down this wall, I'm going to look at you like a girl and you're going to look at me like a boy and we're going to play a fun game called Can I Put My Hand There What About There What About There. And sometimes that happy middle looks so great that you can convince yourself that it's not the middle but will last forever. friendship love unrequited risk-taking forever John Green
d3dad2b Even when I'm alone I have real good company -- dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships -- and nice, jolly little times with people. friendship imaginations l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
62b98b9 It's better to have a few faithful friends than numerous shallow friendships. relationships friendship life love inspirational Jonathan Anthony Burkett
49e0a56 Friendship isn't a science mudboy. Just do what you think is right. friendship inspirational holly-short eoin-colfer Eoin Colfer
f861532 "A man worth being with is one... That never lies to you Is kind to people that have hurt him A person that respects another's life That has manners and shows people respect That goes out of his way to help people That feels every person, no matter how difficult, deserves compassion Who believes you are the most beautiful person he has ever met Who brags about your accomplishments with pride Who talks to you about anything and everything because no bad news will make him love you less That is a peacemaker That will see you through illness Who keeps his promises Who doesn't blame others, but finds the good in them That raises you up and motivates you to reach for the stars That doesn't need fame, money or anything materialistic to be happy That is gentle and patient with children Who won't let you lie to yourself; he tells you what you need to hear, in order to help you grow Who lives what he says he believes in Who doesn't hold a grudge or hold onto the past Who doesn't ask his family members to deliberately hurt people that have hurt him Who will run with your dreams That makes you laugh at the world and yourself Who forgives and is quick to apologize Who doesn't betray you by having inappropriate conversations with other women Who doesn't react when he is angry, decides when he is sad or keep promises he doesn't plan to keep Who takes his children's spiritual life very seriously and teaches by example Who never seeks revenge or would ever put another person down Who communicates to solve problems Who doesn't play games or passive aggressively ignores people to hurt them Who is real and doesn't pretend to be something he is not Who has the power to free you from yourself through his positive outlook Who has a deep respect for women and treats them like a daughter of God Who doesn't have an ego or believes he is better than anyone Who is labeled constantly by people as the nicest person they have ever met Who works hard to provide for the family Who doesn't feel the need to drink alcohol to have a good time, smoke or do drugs Who doesn't have to hang out a bar with his friends, but would rather spend his time with his family Who is morally free from sin Who sees your potential to be great Who doesn't think a woman's place has to be in the home; he supports your life mission, where ever that takes you Who is a gentleman Who is honest and lives with integrity Who never discusses your private business with anyone Who will protect his family marriage gratitude freedom joy friendship happiness blessed grateful christ-like best-choice best-friend god-s-plan honorable-man jealous-women jim-alder joyful king-of-the-kingdom life-partner life-partners lucky-girl lucky-me mate my-husband positive-outlook qualities revelations righteous-man spiritual-man staying-positive tests the-man winning partner the-best selection husband dating father Shannon L. Alder
3eee698 "Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact regardless of whether we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together. Though it may spell destruction, we still ask for more-- since it beats staying dry but so lonely on shore. friendship inspirational npr the-scorpion-and-the-tortoise this-american-life David Rakoff
b7409f2 When the telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's , I felt at once that here was something that completely committed me. It was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying, and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression. Plus, of course, friendship--though I like to think that my reaction would have been the same if I hadn't known Salman at all. To re-state the premise of the argument again: the theocratic head of a foreign despotism offers money in his own name in order to suborn the murder of a civilian citizen of another country, for the offense of writing a work of fiction. No more root-and-branch challenge to the values of the Enlightenment (on the bicentennial of the fall of the Bastille) or to the First Amendment to the Constitution, could be imagined. President George H.W. Bush, when asked to comment, could only say grudgingly that, as far as he could see, no American interests were involved... enlightenment irony literature hate stupidity religion friendship humor love bastille demagogy fatwa first-amendment satanic-verses washington-post united-states-constitution george-hw-bush iran khomeini theocracy intimidation dictatorship united-states rushdie individualism fascism principles bullying free-speech censorship Christopher Hitchens
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
9306711 "Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys," he said from the saddle, "sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King's Landing and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy." "How odd. I think quite the same of you." friendship humor lord-varys tyrion-lannister George R.R. Martin
f2a38c9 "Sam," she said. "I'm trying!" "Sam," she repeated. "No," he spat, hearing her tone. "No!" He began screaming for help then. Celaena pressed her face to one of the holes in the grate. Help wasn't going to come-not fast enough. "Please," Sam begged as he beat and yanked on the grate, he tried to wedge another dagger under the lid. "Please don't." She knew he wasn't speaking to her. The water hit her neck. "Please," Sam moaned, his fingers now touching hers. She'd have one last breath. Her last words. "Take my body home to Terrasen, Sam," she whispered. And with a gasping breath, she went under." friendship love celaena-sadothien sam-cortland heartbreaking sad Sarah J. Maas
2359d0c Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. relationships friendship love flings William Shakespeare
a5f5206 I'm thinking it would be very easy to love you. And easier to call you my friend. true-love friendship rhysand Sarah J. Maas
761725e Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship. silence friends friendship philosophy Norman Maclean
985ee76 La verdadera amistad resiste el tiempo, la distancia y el silencio. friendship Isabel Allende
cbca62a Females and males watched Rhysand throughout the hall--and the shadowsinger and I made a game of betting on who, exactly, would work up the nerve to invite the High Lord home. friendship feyre Sarah J. Maas
3d27ba6 I sew his ears on from time to time, sure. friendship maturin surgery Patrick O'Brian
dd2d75c "Are you ashamed of what I've done?" she dared to ask. His brow creased. "Why would you ever think that?" She couldn't quite look him in the eye as she ran a finger down the blanket. "Are you?" Aedion was silent long enough that she lifted her head - but found him gazing toward the door, as though he could see through it, across the city, to the captain. When he turned to her, his handsome face was open - soft in a way she doubted many ever saw. "Never," he said. "I could never be ashamed of you." family friendship love throne-of-glass aelin-ashryver-galathynius queen-of-shadows Sarah J. Maas
80f677b Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up speaking English and suddenly I could speak with all the complexity and nuance that I hadn't realized was gone. With Lucy I was a native speaker. friendship conversation Ann Patchett
4b62641 It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When you're afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. You make close friends. You become part of a tribe and you share the same blood- you give it together, you take it together. war death friendship Tim O'Brien
9e511b3 I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds. gratitude friendship harsh-world Stephen King
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
f74b71c For me, to remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off: the ones that made the sacrifice of the following day a trivial one. friendship Christopher Hitchens
6a6d0b1 It's hard to give up the being together with someone. moving-on relationship friendship love moving giving-up Lois Lowry
2c4fabb [That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be broken. The most terrible thing, though, was the fear that the wall could never be breached, that in his heart Alai was glad of the separation, and was ready to be Ender's enemy. For now that they could not be together, they must be infinitely apart, and what had been sure and unshakable was now fragile and insubstantial; from the moment we are not together, Alai is a stranger, for he has a life now that will be no part of mine, and that means that when I see him we will not know each other. loss friendship ender walls separation game Orson Scott Card
370a2bd "... "As you wish." friendship heartbroken Sarah J. Maas
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
0b6a093 Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful... friendship l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
81c96a3 "George looked at her for a long moment. Finally he replied, "And why do you find it so hard to think someone might like you and want to do things for you?" friendship george Tamora Pierce
0509813 Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear. murder fear friendship Umberto Eco
c0687cb "I need you." "I'm here." And we sit in silence." friendship Katie McGarry
108682e Sometimes friends do go from us-it will happen more and more as you grow up, Chugg. But if you really love your friends, they're never really gone. Somewhere they're watching over you and they're always there inside your heart. -Martin friendship love inspirational redwall Brian Jacques
9f4ae66 "I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so friendship life where-rainbows-end Cecelia Ahern
433c898 "You're like a god from a Greek myth, Saiman. You have no empathy. You have no concept of the world beyond your ego. Wanting something gives you an automatic right to obtain it by whatever means necessary with no regard to the damage it may do. I would be careful if I were you. Friends and objects of deities' desires dropped like flies. In the end the gods always ended up miserable and alone." -- Kate Daniels" empathy morality friendship greek-mythology ego gods Ilona Andrews
cd7da28 Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my friends. humour friendship comedy sf Spider Robinson
b23420e Before a Cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream; And you might now and then supply Some caviare, or Strassburg Pie, Some potted grouse, or salmon paste -- He's sure to have his personal taste. (I know a Cat, who makes a habit Of eating nothing else but rabbit, And when he's finished, licks his paws So's not to waste the onion sauce.) A Cat's entitled to expect These evidences of respect. And so in time you reach your aim, And finally call him by his name. names friendship bribery cats food T.S. Eliot
6d6c5cb "I'll get there, if I leave everything but my bones behind," said Sam. "And I'll carry Mr. Frodo up myself, if it breaks my back and heart." courage friendship inspirational J.R.R. Tolkien
d536eaf "Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the horses didn't want it -- they swerved apart: the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temple, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they emerged from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices "No, not yet," and the sky said "No, not there." friendship E.M. Forster
0471d49 Twelve minutes. I can give you that. faith friendship hope titan bob Rick Riordan
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
c7ee0a5 "It's not the loving that hurts this girl; it's the understanding of it for what it is, that it will never be returned in the same way, that threatens to destroy her. But to unload the words - "I love you" - on an innocent party who didn't ask for it, to reach across the dark space and touch him - it's like the world she knows could end if she dared speak these words, dared make such a move." friendship heartbreak love heartache unrequited-love Rachel Cohn
839a834 Having a friend made everything else suck less. friendship Laurie Halse Anderson
306bc31 "Westcliff thinks that St. Vincent is in love with you." Evie choked a little and didn't dare look up from her tea. "Wh-why does he think that?" "He's known St. Vincent from childhood, and can read him fairly well. And Westcliff sees an odd sort of logic in why you would finally be the one to win St. Vincent's heart. He says a girl like you would appeal to...hmm, how did he put it?...I can't remember the exact words, but it was something like... you would appeal to St. Vincent's deepest, most secret fantasy." Evie felt her cheeks flushing while a skirmish of pain and hope took place in the tired confines of her chest. She tried to respond sardonically. "I should think his fantasy is to consort with as many women as possible." A grin crossed Lillian's lips. "Dear, that is not St. Vincent's fantasy, it's his reality. And you're probably the first sweet, decent girl he's ever had anything to do with." fantasy friendship love lillian-bowman secret-desire sebastian-st-vincent innocence Lisa Kleypas
66d5184 It was a little weird that they were friends. But then, maybe freaks just tended to find each other. friendship trufaxx weird James Patterson
6d472d8 You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious. reality friendship pessimistic wise Frances Hodgson Burnett
b0abb9b And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody else. That I was known by my actions and words, that my internal universe was unavailable for inspection by others. They didn't know. They didn't know, because I never told them. identity friendship isolation Kim Stanley Robinson
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