Christopher Hitchens

To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off

Life Quotes And Sayings by Christopher Hitchens

Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Because you're my friend, wingnut.

Life Quotes And Sayings by John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Jeanne DuPrau, The People of Sparks

Now Doon seemed to care for his new friends more than he did for her. Every time she thought about him she felt a thud of pain, like a bruised place inside her.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jeanne DuPrau, The People of Sparks

Faith Reese Martin, White Doe in the Mist: The Mystery of the Lost Colony

Every great day has a story and a song!

Life Quotes And Sayings by Faith Reese Martin, White Doe in the Mist: The Mystery of the Lost Colony

Shannon L. Alder

The only way to move from your reality to God’s reality is through people who love you.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Shannon L. Alder

Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Ros was dead.

He had loved heroin more than it loved him. I was shocked beyond imagining; he was the first of my friends to fall.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

As they embrace, she kisses him full on the mouth. And suddenly sticks her tongue right in. She has done this before, often. It’s one of those drunken long shots which just might, at least theoretically, once in ten thousand tries, throw a relationship right out of its orbit and send it whizzing off on another. Do women ever stop trying? No. But, because they never stop, they learn to be good losers.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

I have never bought into the idea that blood is thicker than water. Love and respect are meant to be earned from our children, our spouses, our families, and our friends.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Annette Curtis Klause, Blood and Chocolate

The Amoeba?" she asked Aiden.
"The gang," he said, tossing his hand to indicate all around. "My
people. A large amorphous mass that keeps on changing size, hasn't
much apparent use, sometimes makes you sick, and occasionally breaks
off into smaller parts that act exactly like the parent.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Annette Curtis Klause, Blood and Chocolate

Brian Jacques, Taggerung

Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Brian Jacques, Taggerung

Doris Lessing, The Old Age of El Magnifico

What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the soft sleekness under your palm, the warmth when you wake on a cold night, the grace and charm even in a quite ordinary workaday puss. Cat walks across your room, and in that lonely stalk you see leopard or even panther, or it turns its head to acknowledge you and the yellow blaze of those eyes tells you what an exotic visitor you have here, in this household friend, the cat who purrs as you stroke, or rub his chin, or scratch his head.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Doris Lessing, The Old Age of El Magnifico

L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful…

Life Quotes And Sayings by L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams

Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

What’s so phony nowadays is all this familiarity. Pretending there isn’t any difference between people —well, like you were saying about minorities, this morning. If you and I are no different, what do we have to give each other? How can we ever be friends?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul.

Life Quotes And Sayings by William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Randy Murray

A writer is a dangerous friend. Everything you say, all of your life and experience, is fodder for our writing. We mean you no harm, but what you know and what you’ve done is unavoidably fascinating to us. Being friends with a writer is a bit like trying to keep a bear as a pet. They’re wonderful, friendly creatures, but they play rough and they don’t know their own strength or remember that they have claws. Choose the stories you tell to your writer friends carefully.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Randy Murray

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

The Friendship is not a reward for our discrimination and good taste in finding one another out. IT is the instrument by which God reveals to each the beauties of all the others. They are no greater than the beauties of a thousand other men; by Friendship God opens our eyes to them. They are, like all beauties, derived from Him, and then, in a good Friendship, increased by Him through the Friendship itself, so that it is His instrument for creating as well as for revealing. At this feast it is he who has spread the board and it is He who has chosen the guests. It is He, we may dare to hope, who sometimes does, and always should, preside. Let us not reckon without our Host.

Life Quotes And Sayings by C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

مصطفى محمود, يوميات نص الليل

الصديقان النموذجيان كما زوج من القنافذ,يتعاطفان,و يتعاونان و يتلازمان,و لكن لا يذوبان فى يعضهما لأن كل واحد له درقة من الأشواك تحميه من أن يقتحم عليه الاّخر خصوصيته و سريته و ينتهك وحدانية نفسه و قدسية استقلاله.

Life Quotes And Sayings by مصطفى محمود, يوميات نص الليل

Brandon Sanderson, The Alloy of Law

Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you?

Waxilliam: Why?

Wayne: I thought of you happy in a comfy bed, resting and relaxing, spending the rest of your life sipping tea and reading papers while people bring you food and maids rub your toes and stuff.

Waxilliam: And?

Wayne: And I just couldn't leave you to a fate like that...I'm too good a friend to let a mate of mine die in such a terrible situation.

Waxilliam: Comfortable?

Wayne: No. Boring.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Brandon Sanderson, The Alloy of Law

Chloe Rattray, Sacré Noir

When you meet an extraordinary person, it’s like they get inside you, under your ribs, and shuffle everything inside you around until they find space for greatness to grow. But extraordinary people always get away. And when they leave, they take that little part of you with them. Suddenly you find yourself with a gap in your chest that you don’t know how to live with. Suddenly you’re frightened of being yourself without them.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Chloe Rattray, Sacré Noir

Michel de Montaigne

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Michel de Montaigne

Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Mike Norton, Just Another War Story

Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Mike Norton, Just Another War Story

David Gemmell, Fall of Kings

I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.

Life Quotes And Sayings by David Gemmell, Fall of Kings

Alice Hoffman, Local Girls

Jill and I have known each other our whole lives. One house separates our houses but we act as if it doesn't exist. We met before we were born and we'll probably still know each other after we die. At least, that's the way we're planning it.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Alice Hoffman, Local Girls

Alina Baker

We can't choose our blood, but we can choose those who run importance in our lives.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Alina Baker

Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

Oh, September! It is so soon for you to lose your friends to good work and strange loves and high ambitions. The sadness of that is too grown-up for you. Like whiskey and voting, it is a dangerous and heady business, as heavy as years. If I could keep your little tribe together forever, I would. I do so want to be generous. But some stories sprout bright vines that tendril off beyond our sight, carrying the folk we love best with them, and if I knew how to accept that with grace, I would share the secret.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

Jude Morgan, Indiscretion

That's the way girls are isn't it? They swear eternal friendship, and then as soon as a man's in the case it's all forgotten.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jude Morgan, Indiscretion

Emily Dickinson, I'm Nobody! Who Are You?

Mine Enemy is growing old --
I have at last Revenge --
The Palate of the Hate departs --
If any would avenge

Let him be quick -- the Viand flits --
It is a faded Meat --
Anger as soon as fed is dead --
'Tis starving makes it fat

Life Quotes And Sayings by Emily Dickinson, I'm Nobody! Who Are You?

Helen Salter, Does Snogging Count as Exercise?

Having friends was really important, wasn't it? Even if sometimes they did stuff which upset you?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Helen Salter, Does Snogging Count as Exercise?

Alison Croggon

It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Alison Croggon

Juwell Precious, Runaway

Love Is A Friendship On Fire !

Life Quotes And Sayings by Juwell Precious, Runaway

Jess C. Scott, The Other Side of Life

Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jess C. Scott, The Other Side of Life

Erma Bombeck

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Erma Bombeck

Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly

Life Quotes And Sayings by Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

Count von Platen

True love is deemed to be the most tender of our emotions, as even the blind and deaf know; but I know, what few believe, that true friendship is more tender still.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Count von Platen

Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves

Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship? I guarantee that friendship is not a bit less fickle than love and it is impossible to build anything on it. Self-love? I wish it were possible.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves

Jennifer Jabaley, Crush Control

Girlfriends and boyfriends come and go.
The good times had with them are easily forgotten. But best friends stay in your heart forever.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jennifer Jabaley, Crush Control

Spider Robinson, Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

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.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Spider Robinson, Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

Gary D. Schmidt, The Wednesday Wars

Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Gary D. Schmidt, The Wednesday Wars

Lisa Ann Sandell, Song of the Sparrow

But, I believe," I continue, "I know what true love is - or what it should be."

"What should it be?" Tristan asks, his voice soft now.

"It should be a friendship and truly knowing who a person is, knowing his flaws and hopes and strengths and fears, knowing all of it. And admiring and caring for - loving the person because of those things.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Lisa Ann Sandell, Song of the Sparrow

George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

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.

Life Quotes And Sayings by George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

A.A. Milne, Now We Are Six

Wherever I am, there's always Pooh,
There's always Pooh and Me.
Whatever I do, he wants to do,
"Where are you going today?" says Pooh:
"Well, that's very odd 'cos I was too.
Let's go together," says Pooh, says he.
"Let's go together," says Pooh.

Life Quotes And Sayings by A.A. Milne, Now We Are Six

Rionna Morgan, The Wanting Heart

A true friend finds a way to celebrate—even in the worst moments of life—and forces it upon you.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Rionna Morgan, The Wanting Heart

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Elen síla lúmenn' omentielvo

Life Quotes And Sayings by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect

Life Quotes And Sayings by Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

Andrea Michaels, Reflections Of A Successful Wallflower: Lessons In Business; Lessons In Life

Friendship is the most important thing in my life. It's rare to have friends like I've got. If I had as great a taste in husbands as I have in friends, what an even better life I would have had!

Life Quotes And Sayings by Andrea Michaels, Reflections Of A Successful Wallflower: Lessons In Business; Lessons In Life

Claudia Gray, Afterlife

I went to him in the doorway and embraced him tightly.
"Thank you," I whispered. "You've done so much for us, and we've done nothing for you."
"Don't say that." Vic's hands patted my back. "You're my friends. Nothing else to it.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Claudia Gray, Afterlife

Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

[A] friend in power is a friend lost.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

Odd as this might sound, I suppose I’m glad you’re here, Jacob.
[Edward Cullen]

Life Quotes And Sayings by Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

E. Lockhart, Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren't Complicated, I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver

Meghan pushed her chocolate cheesecake across the table to me. I hadn’t gotten paid yet for November, so I had only ordered coffee. “Here,” she said.

“Don’t you want it?”

“Sure I want it. I ordered it. But I’m giving it to you.”

“Why?”

Meghan stood up and got me a fork. “Remember what Nora said about love? In your movie?”

“Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it,” I said.

“So it’s really amazing cake,” said Meghan. “And I want you to have it.

Life Quotes And Sayings by E. Lockhart, Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren't Complicated, I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver

Hilaire Belloc

For no one, in our long decline,
So dusty, spiteful and divided,
Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,
Or loved them half as much as I did.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Hilaire Belloc

Ai Yazawa

If my tears spilled spontaneously at that moment it’s because I immediately understood that what was happening, like in a dream, was the treat you had prepared for me I felt your friendship much stronger than if you had thanked me a million times that what pleased and touched me.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ai Yazawa

Bryan Davis, Raising Dragons

Forever and ever Bonnie, I will always be your friend.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Bryan Davis, Raising Dragons

E. Lockhart, Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren't Complicated, I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver

Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you’re popular enough.

Life Quotes And Sayings by E. Lockhart, Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren't Complicated, I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver

Sarah Sprague

Love isn't always a physical emotion. Sometimes it's the ones who never got to actually hold you in their arms that appreciate you for who you are

Life Quotes And Sayings by Sarah Sprague

François de La Rochefoucauld

How rare true love maybe, it is less so than true friendship.

Life Quotes And Sayings by François de La Rochefoucauld

Lorii Myers, Make It Happen, A Healthy, Competitive Approach to Achieving Personal Success

It's sometimes easier to help others rather than helping yourself. The trick is to listen to your "self" as a friend. This may be the simplest change you ever make in life, with the biggest impact.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Lorii Myers, Make It Happen, A Healthy, Competitive Approach to Achieving Personal Success

Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

[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.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

Brian Jacques, The Legend of Luke

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Brian Jacques, The Legend of Luke

L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams

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.

Life Quotes And Sayings by L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Alone among unsympathetic companions, I hold certain views and standards timidly, half ashamed to avow them and half doubtful if they can after all be right. Put me back among my Friends and in half an hour - in ten minutes - these same views and standards become once more indisputable. The opinion of this little circle, while I am in it, outweighs that of a thousand outsiders: as Friendship strengthens, it will do this even when my Friends are far away. For we all wish to be judged by our peers, by the men "after our own heart." Only they really know our mind and only they judge it by standards we fully acknowledge. Theirs is the praise we really covet and the blame we really dread.

Life Quotes And Sayings by C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Raven Symone

Friendship is a give and take. You have to have a strong relationship with your friend and I think you have to offer them something and they have to offer you something and that’s to always learn from it.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Raven Symone

Leslie Knope

We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work. Doesn't matter, but work is third.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Leslie Knope

L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.

Life Quotes And Sayings by L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Such lonely, lost things you find on your way. It would be easier, if you were the only one lost. But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized and can only attract their like. How I would like to lead you to brave, stalwart friends who would protect you and play games with dice and teach you delightful songs that have no sad endings. If you would only leave cages locked and turn away from unloved Wyverns, you could stay Heartless.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Eoin Colfer, The Opal Deception

Friendship isn't a science mudboy. Just do what you think is right.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Eoin Colfer, The Opal Deception

Nina LaCour, Hold Still

This is what I want so don't be sad.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Nina LaCour, Hold Still

Julia Child, My Life in France

Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Julia Child, My Life in France

J.M. Darhower, Sempre

Who are you anyway? What are you even doing here?”
“Haven,” she said quietly, peeking at him.
He gazed at her peculiarly. “Heaven? No, this definitely isn't Heaven. But I get why you’re confused, since I'm standing in front of you.” She stared at him, and he
cracked a smile. “I'm kidding. Well, kinda… I have been told I've taken a girl to Heaven a time or two.”
“Haven, not Heaven,” she said, louder than before. Nothing about the conversation made sense to her. “My name’s Haven.

Life Quotes And Sayings by J.M. Darhower, Sempre

John Green, Paper Towns

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

Life Quotes And Sayings by John Green, Paper Towns

Terry Goodkind

...you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Terry Goodkind

David Nicholls, One Day

If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

Life Quotes And Sayings by David Nicholls, One Day

Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock

Lovely Free-Smith, Mom, I'm Pregnant: A Parent's Guide to the Pregnant Teen

friend is someone you can trust and admits you whatever you are

Life Quotes And Sayings by Lovely Free-Smith, Mom, I'm Pregnant: A Parent's Guide to the Pregnant Teen

Sydney Smith

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Sydney Smith

Chelsea Handler, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Chelsea Handler, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

Richard Matheson, I Am Legend and Other Stories

But it was hard to keep his hands still. He could almost feel them twitching emphatically with his strong desire to reach out and stroke the dog's head. He had such a terrible yearning to love something again, and the dog was such a beautiful ugly dog.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Richard Matheson, I Am Legend and Other Stories

Alexandra Elle

No matter how bad you want a person, if your hearts are in two different places, you’ll have to pass and move on.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Alexandra Elle

Dag Hammarskjöld

Friendship needs no words.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Dag Hammarskjöld

Leonard Cohen

Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Leonard Cohen

Emma Frances Dawson, An Itinerant House, And Other Ghost Stories

It is as easy to find a lover as to keep a friend, but as hard to find a friend as to keep a lover.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Emma Frances Dawson, An Itinerant House, And Other Ghost Stories

R.A. Salvatore

These were the companions who justified my principles, who gave me the strength to continue against any foe, real or imagined. These were the companions who fought the helplessness, the rage, and frustration.
These were the friends who gave me my life.

Life Quotes And Sayings by R.A. Salvatore

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright, Red Riding Hood

His leaving had been like snipping off the end of a rope - leaving two unraveling strands.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright, Red Riding Hood

John D. Rockefeller

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship

Life Quotes And Sayings by John D. Rockefeller

Jamie Oliver

If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a nice bit of food it makes you feel good, you know?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jamie Oliver

Jarod Kintz

Friends are like orgasms: you can never have too many, but just try to watch out for the fake ones.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jarod Kintz

Baltasar Gracián

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Baltasar Gracián

Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel

[novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers
[novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, so that means we're good with our mouths too...

(~ IM chat with Novan Chang, 18, bassist)

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel

Robin McKinley, Pegasus

...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Robin McKinley, Pegasus

Rachel Vincent, My Soul to Lose

Em didn't truly understand about my panic attacks - no one did. But she'd never pushed me to explain, never tried to ditch me when things got weird, and never once looked at me like I was a freak.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Rachel Vincent, My Soul to Lose

Chris Bradford, The Way of the Dragon

Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Chris Bradford, The Way of the Dragon

Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter

Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays

Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me.
Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays

J.M. Darhower, Sempre

Dia wrinkled her nose. “Gross. You need a decent girl, one that can straighten you out.”
“I don't need to be straightened out,” Carmine said. “Why drown in love when you can have so much fun swimming in lust?

Life Quotes And Sayings by J.M. Darhower, Sempre

Ed Cunningham

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ed Cunningham

Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable

After listening and getting to know more about you. Also, feeling a deep connection between us that goes beyond physical attraction. I'm beginning to feel for, so much more than the friendship that I waited to grow with you. I'm not going to try and rush things. However, I don't want to wait until it's to late.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable

Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Kim Stanley Robinson, Icehenge

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.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Kim Stanley Robinson, Icehenge

Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

I was hot so I gave myself a haircut. I then saw a bald man sweating, so I offered to tweeze his eyebrows. He accepted and was so grateful that he offered to trade mustaches with me. In remembrance of that special bonding moment, I still wear his mustache over my left nipple.


Life Quotes And Sayings by Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

Mary Renault (Fire From Heaven)

The school discussed friendship often. It is, they learned, one of the things man can least afford to lack; necessary to the good life, and beautiful in itself. Between friends is no need of justice, for neither wrong nor inequality can exist.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Mary Renault (Fire From Heaven)

James Patterson, Max

Max." Fang let go of my hand. "Right now, it's really all about—us."

He swooped down to the right in a big semicircle, ending facing me. Slowly we climbed upward, until we were almost vertical, flying straight up to the sun.

While carefully synchronizing our wings—they almost touched—Fang leaned in, gently put one hand behind my neck, and kissed me. It was just about as close to heaven as I'll ever get, I guess. I closed my eyes, lost in the feeling of flying and kissing and being with the one person in the world I completely,
utterly trusted.

When we finally broke apart, we looked down at the others, who were way far below us now. Angel was shading her eyes, looking up at us with a big smile. She was sitting on a dolphin's back, and I hoped soon someone would explain to the dolphin that he shouldn't let Angel take advantage of his good nature.

Still looking up at us, Angel gave us a big thumbs-up.


"She approves," Fang said with a hint of amusement.
"Jeez," I wondered aloud. "Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Life Quotes And Sayings by James Patterson, Max

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Books Three And Four

So furiously each other did assayle,
As if their soules they would attonce haue rent
Out of their brests, that streames of bloud did rayle
Adowne, as if their springes of life were spent;
That all the ground with purple bloud was sprent,
And all their armours staynd with bloudie gore,
Yet scarcely once to breath would they relent,
So mortall was their malice and so sore,
Become of fayned friendship which they vow'd afore.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Books Three And Four

Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

... we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

Jeanne DuPrau

She realized all at once that Doon, thin, dark eyed Doon, with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket, and his good heart---- was the person she knew better than anyone now. He was her best friend.
--City of Ember--

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jeanne DuPrau

Morrissey

With the world's fate resting on your shoulder - you're gonna need someone on your side.
You can't do it by yourself any longer - you're gonna need someone on your side.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Morrissey

May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?

Life Quotes And Sayings by May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

Peter Deunov

If you wish to befriend someone, look for a person who loves first God then themselves. If they love God, they will be able to love their neighbor, too.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Peter Deunov

Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca

Do you want to hang out? At your place or something?" Hanging out with Jimmy Hailler will mean that I have to say hello to him every day. I'm not ready to say hello to him every day. Too much commitment. It's bad enough that I'm sharing chocolate brownies swith him. I shake my head. "Not today.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca

Karen Blixen, Out of Africa

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Karen Blixen, Out of Africa

William James

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

Life Quotes And Sayings by William James

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

Life Quotes And Sayings by C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions

But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions

Abraham Kuyper

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Abraham Kuyper

Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

That what?" "That I knew i misjudged you. That you love him. I'm not saying In what way. Maybe you don't know yourself. But anyone paying attention could see how much you care about him," he says gently.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

William James

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.

Life Quotes And Sayings by William James

William Hazlitt, Selected Essays, 1778-1830

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

Life Quotes And Sayings by William Hazlitt, Selected Essays, 1778-1830

T.S. Eliot, Collected Poems, 1909-1962

You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,
And how, how rare and strange it is, to find
In a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends,
(For indeed I do not love it ... you knew? you are not blind! How keen you are!)
To find a friend who has these qualities,
Who has, and gives
Those qualities upon which friendship lives.
How much it means that I say this to you-
Without these friendships-life, what cauchemar!

Life Quotes And Sayings by T.S. Eliot, Collected Poems, 1909-1962

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.

Life Quotes And Sayings by William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much in common with someone, I can't help but like him a little.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

G. W. Cooke

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any of us to talk about the rest of us.

Life Quotes And Sayings by G. W. Cooke

Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Nina LaCour

I was so blinded by her talent that I didn't recognize the tremendous pain behind her work. She gave me hundreds of images, so many chances to see that she was in trouble. I failed her.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Nina LaCour

William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.

Life Quotes And Sayings by William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Nina LaCour, Hold Still

How it's so easy for her to not feel anything at all, to be just completely gone, to not be around to see how fucked up she's made me. She got to disappear completely and I feel like I'm about to combust.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Nina LaCour, Hold Still

George Alexiou

Friendship is thinking of the other person first.

Life Quotes And Sayings by George Alexiou

Edward Young

A foe to God was never true friend to man

Life Quotes And Sayings by Edward Young

James Patterson, Angel

It was a little weird that they were friends. But then, maybe freaks just tended to find each other.

Life Quotes And Sayings by James Patterson, Angel

Ahmad Fuadi, Ranah 3 Warna

Tapi apa memang persahabatan bisa kendur karena jarak? Aku yakin inti persahabatan tentu tidak rusak, tapi jarak dan tempat tidak bisa berdusta, berpisah secara fisik bisa merenggangkan keintiman persahabatan karena tidak lagi disirami oleh pertemuan, canda, dan diskusi *Ranah 3 Warna, halaman 36*

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ahmad Fuadi, Ranah 3 Warna

Cath Crowley, A Little Wanting Song

We watch her walk into the spotlight she’s been been hiding from most of her life. Sure, friendship is all about believing in someone so hard they believe it, too. Sure, it’s about trust. But if anyone hurts her tonight, it’s about ripping them apart with my bare hands and really enjoying it.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Cath Crowley, A Little Wanting Song

Jonathan Lethem, Men and Cartoons: Stories

As I get older I find that the friendships that are the most certain, ultimately, are the ones where you and the other person have made substantial amounts of money for one another.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jonathan Lethem, Men and Cartoons: Stories

Deborah Eisenberg, The Stories

Stop that Stuart," Patty said as Stuart struggled with the suitcases, which were too heavy for him, she thought. (Almost everything was way too heavy for Stuart.)" Just put those down. Besides," Patty said, "where will you go? You don't have anyplace to go." But Stuart took her hand and held it for a moment against his closed eyes, and despite the many occasions when Patty had wanted him to go, and the several occasions when she had tried to make him go, despite the fact that he was at his most enragingly pathetic, for once she could think of nothing, nothing at all that he could be trying to shame her into or shame her out of, and so it occurred to her that this he would really leave---that he was simply saying good-bye. All along, Patty had been unaware that time is as adhesive as love, and that the more time you spend with someone the greater the likelihood of finding yourself with a permanent sort of thing to deal with that people casually refer to as "friendship," as if that were the end of the matter,when the truth is that even if "your friend" does something annoying, or if you and "your friend" decided that you hate each other, or if "your friend" moves away and you lose each other's address, you still have a friendship, and although it can change shape, look different in different lights, become an embarrassment or an encumbrance or a sorrow, it can't simply cease to have existed, no matter how far into the past it sinks, so attempts to disavow or destroy it will not merely constitute betrayals of friendship but, more practically, are bound to be fruitless, causing damage only to the humans involved rather than to that gummy jungle(friendship)in which those humans have entrapped themselves, so if sometime in the future you're not going to want to have been a particular person's friend, or if you're not going to want to have had that particular friendship you and that person can make with one another, then don't be friends with that person at all, don't talk to that person, don't go anywhere near that person, because as soon as you start to see something from that person's point of view (which, inevitably, will be as soon as you stand next to that person) common ground is sure to slide under your feet.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Deborah Eisenberg, The Stories

Leigh Painter

There are only a handful of people that you can trust, five to be precise.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Leigh Painter

Orson Scott Card

Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Orson Scott Card

Charlaine Harris, Dead in the Family

How is Eric?'
'Very tightly wound. Plus, a lot of stuff happened that he'll tell you about.'
'Thanks for the warning. I'll go to the house now. You're my favorite breather.'
'Oh. Well ... great.'
She hung up.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Charlaine Harris, Dead in the Family

CLAMP, Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, Vol. 16

Yuuko, speaking to Fai: To all the young ones in your group, you are no longer someone who passes through their lives and is forgotten. You have become someone very important to them. Your hardships are their hardships too.

Life Quotes And Sayings by CLAMP, Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, Vol. 16

Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

If the best of friends are those who reflect you, nothing helps your popularity like being secluded in a house of mirrors.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

Lilith Saintcrow

You're my friend, Danny. You understand? There's no debt between friends."
Maybe it's just that the debt gets so high you stop counting it.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Lilith Saintcrow

Bertrand Russell

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Bertrand Russell

Frank Delaney, The Matchmaker of Kenmare: A Novel of Ireland

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Frank Delaney, The Matchmaker of Kenmare: A Novel of Ireland

Vanna Bonta, Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel

There is no hospitality like understanding.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Vanna Bonta, Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel

Samuel Butler

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Samuel Butler

Katherine Mansfield

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Katherine Mansfield

Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Jennifer Haigh, The Condition

It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jennifer Haigh, The Condition

Charise Mericle Harper, Flashcards of My Life

Even though friends say they are interested in your life, they never really want to talk about you as much as you want them to. (68)

Life Quotes And Sayings by Charise Mericle Harper, Flashcards of My Life

Dag Hammarskjöld

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Dag Hammarskjöld

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir

When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwah, 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…

Life Quotes And Sayings by Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir

Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel

I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel

Jim Butcher, Changes

I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that will get through your skull: My friend is going to save a child from monsters. I'm going with him. That's what friends do, Harry.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jim Butcher, Changes

Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care

I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care

Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight. It takes forty-one seconds to climb a ladder three stories tall. It's not easy to imagine the year 3012, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. We have new capabilities now—strange powers we're still getting used to. The mountains are a message from Aldrag the Wyrm-Father. Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

Darin Strauss

The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Darin Strauss

Meša Selimović, Death and the Dervish

Prijateljstvo se ne bira, rekao je, ono biva, ko zna zbog čega, kao ljubav. A ništa ja nisam tebi poklonio, već sebi.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Meša Selimović, Death and the Dervish

Bonnie Jensen

Contrary to popular belief, going shopping is really about stopping afterward for cheesecake.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Bonnie Jensen

Thomas Fuller

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Thomas Fuller

Heather Duffy Stone, This Is What I Want to Tell You

I had the feeling she was going to say something big. One of us had to say it. What happened to us? Where are we going? It was like this silence between us was frozen and we were both feeling our way around it. How is it that two people can need each other so absolutely and then, in moments, not even know how to be next to each other and just be quiet?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Heather Duffy Stone, This Is What I Want to Tell You

Hans Selye

As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Hans Selye

Antonin Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts; it serves as a check on our judgements, tries out our new ideas, keeps up our ardor, and inflames our enthusiasm.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Antonin Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

P.G. Wodehouse

Great pals we've always been. In fact there was a time when I had an idea I was in love with Cynthia. However, it blew over. A dashed pretty and lively and attractive girl, mind you, but full of ideals and all that. I may be wronging her, but I have an idea that she's the sort of girl who would want a fellow to carve out a career and what not. I know I've heard her speak favourably of Napoleon. So what with one thing and another the jolly old frenzy sort of petered out, and now we're just pals. I think she's a topper, and she thinks me next door to a looney, so everything's nice and matey.

Life Quotes And Sayings by P.G. Wodehouse

Carrie Vaughn, Kitty Takes a Holiday

You're lucky to have a friend who will kill for you."

So. I once had a friend who died for me, and now one who killed for me. Why didn't I feel lucky?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Carrie Vaughn, Kitty Takes a Holiday

Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

Do you love him?"
How would I know?"
You'd know.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

Luellen Hoffman

Life is a bitter sweet journey my friend, a bitter sweet journey.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Luellen Hoffman

Teresa of Ávila

If this is how you treat your friends, no wonder you have so many enemies.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Teresa of Ávila

W.H. Auden

The friends who met here and embraced are gone,
Each to his own mistake;

Life Quotes And Sayings by W.H. Auden

Beth Bernobich

Sometimes friends make mistakes. Grievous ones that cry out for us to stay and prove we are true friends.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Beth Bernobich

Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

A boy said,“Everybody is my friend.”Beloved said,“No, not everybody can be your friend.” Boy said, “Each one of them is gifted to teach me something new in my life.” Beloved said, “I still don’t agree.” Boy again smilingly said, “Don’t divide human, ...divide your soul, you will have everybody as friend. In short, Friends are your own soul divided from you, who will guide you when you will move away from your path.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

Whitney Houston

I finally faced the fact that it isn`t a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Whitney Houston

Emily Brontë, The Complete Poems

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?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Emily Brontë, The Complete Poems

Anonymous

When god created the horse, he said to the magnificent creature: I have made thee as no other. All the treasures of the earth lie between thy eyes. Thy shalt carry my friends upon thy back. Thy saddle shall be the seat of prayers to me. And thou shalt fly without wings, and conquer without sword; oh horse.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Anonymous

Adam S. McHugh, Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture

Introverts treasure the close relationships they have stretched so much to make.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Adam S. McHugh, Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture

Jessica Park, Flat-Out Love

The friends you make in college are friends you'll have for life, even if you don't talk for years at a time.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jessica Park, Flat-Out Love

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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.

Life Quotes And Sayings by C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Jim Butcher, Changes

Maybe you know the monsters, Martin," Murphy said quietly. "But I know the guy who stops them. And if they don't return the girl, we'll make them regret it." She nodded at me and said, "Let's go. We can watch Dresden kill the bitch.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jim Butcher, Changes

Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

O friend, for the morrow let us not worry
This moment we have now, let us not hurry
When our time comes, we shall not tarry
With seven thousand-year-olds, our burden carry

Life Quotes And Sayings by Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Jodi Lynn Anderson, Peaches

Leeda knew friends never turned out to be what you expected. They came and went in waves, pulling away and coming back, leaving you feeling safe one minute and lost the next.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jodi Lynn Anderson, Peaches

Veronica Roth

Psyche you out?" I repeat. "I'm your FRIEND. I wouldn't do that."

He doesn't say anything. I can tell he doesn't believe me-not quite.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Veronica Roth

Ron Hall, Same Kind of Different as Me

Bein friends is like being soldiers in the army. You live together, you fight together; you die together.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ron Hall, Same Kind of Different as Me

Ann Patchett, Truth and Beauty

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.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ann Patchett, Truth and Beauty

Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped

Alan," cried I, "what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?"

Deed, and I don't, know" said Alan. "For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye, was that ye never quarrelled:—and now I like ye better!

Life Quotes And Sayings by Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped

Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden language of laughter and silliness and girls that was, somehow, friendship.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

Ann Kaiser Stearns

The kindest way of helping yourself is to find a friend

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ann Kaiser Stearns

Thomas Jefferson

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none

Life Quotes And Sayings by Thomas Jefferson

Henry David Thoreau

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Henry David Thoreau

Chris Crutcher, Deadline

...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Chris Crutcher, Deadline

Charise Mericle Harper, Flashcards of My Life

You might think that a boy is just your friend, but then if you find out that maybe he likes you (in a boyfriend way), everything changes instantly. (47)

Life Quotes And Sayings by Charise Mericle Harper, Flashcards of My Life

Al Munoz

If you're not happy in life then you need to change, calibrate, readjust...flush your negative energy and fill it with positive energy; How do we do that you might ask? well I would start by making others happy, deseases are not the only thing that spreads easy. We are all connected in some form of unseen energy... think how those around you will impact you and make you feel if they were happy?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Al Munoz

Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca

So I ring Justine Kalinsky and I say, "It's Francesca Spinelli," and she says, "Francesca, you've got to stop using last names. How are you doing?" and I say "I feel like shit", and I don't know how it happens, but by eight o'clock that night I'm lying next to her on the couch with Siobhan and Tara and we're eating junk food and watching a Keanu movie. And I want to stay on that couch for the rest of my life.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca

Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

Friends are born, not made.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

Richard Russo, Empire Falls

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?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Richard Russo, Empire Falls

Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

David Richo, Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy

The foundation of adult trust is not "You will never hurt me." It is "I trust myself with whatever you do.

Life Quotes And Sayings by David Richo, Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy

Jim Butcher, Summer Knight

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?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jim Butcher, Summer Knight

Andrea Hirata, Edensor

Di sekitar kita ada kawan yang selalu hadir sebagai pahlawan.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Andrea Hirata, Edensor

Chris Wright

so here i sit. a sum of the parts. about a third way down this wonderful path, so to speak. and i've been thinking lately about a friendship that fell apart with time, with distance, and with the misunderstanding of youth. i'm trying not to confuse sadness with regret. not the easiest thing at times. i dont regret that certain things happened. i understand that perhaps i had a choice in the matter, or perhaps i believe in fate. probably not, but so far actions as small as the quickest glance to events as monumental as death have pushed me slowly along to right here, right now. there was no other way to get here. the meandering and erratic path was actually the straightest of lines. take away a handful of angry words, things once thought of as mistakes or regrets, and i'm suddenly a different person with a different history, a different future. that, i would regret. so here i sit. thinking about a person i once called my best friends. a man who might be full of sadness and regret, who might not give a damn, or who might, just might, remember the future and realize that's where its at.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Chris Wright

Georgia O'Keeffe, Georgia O'Keeffe

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.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Georgia O'Keeffe, Georgia O'Keeffe

John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

...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.

Life Quotes And Sayings by John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend. The rest of us know that though we can have erotic love and friendship for the same person yet in some ways nothing is less like a Friendship than a love-affair. Lovers are always talking to one another about their love; Friends hardly ever about their Friendship. Lovers are normally face to face, absorbed in each other; Friends, side by side, absorbed in some common interest. Above all, Eros (while it lasts) is necessarily between two only. But two, far from being the necessary number for Friendship, is not even the best. And the reason for this is important.
... In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets... Hence true Friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. They can then say, as the blessed souls say in Dante, 'Here comes one who will augment our loves.' For in this love 'to divide is not to take away.

Life Quotes And Sayings by C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Homer, The Odyssey

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.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Homer, The Odyssey

Gail Caldwell, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures. ...We tell the story to get them back, to capture the traces of footfalls through the snow.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Gail Caldwell, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

Richard Bach

don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Richard Bach

T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral

Unreal friendship may turn to real
But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended

Life Quotes And Sayings by T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral

Sitta Karina

la amistad es la raíz del amor puro. el amor puro es la fuente de la felicidad.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Sitta Karina

John Christopher, The Pool of Fire

I was remembering the things we had done together, the times we had had. It would have been pleasant to preserve that comradeship in the days that came after. Pleasant, but alas, impossible. That which had brought us together had gone, and now our paths diverged, according to our natures and needs. We would meet again, from time to time, but always a little more as strangers; until perhaps at last, as old men with only memories left, we could sit together and try to share them.

Life Quotes And Sayings by John Christopher, The Pool of Fire

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mark Twain

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Mark Twain

Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

John Knowles, A Separate Peace

All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way-if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy.

Life Quotes And Sayings by John Knowles, A Separate Peace

Primadonna Angela

Some friends gladly stay, some move away. Some come and go, but their affections grow. While some, I recall, are not friends at all.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Primadonna Angela

Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

Their love for me was both a myth and a torture and so I wrecked everything. I hurt them, and I left them hurting.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years have already passed since my friend went away from me, with his sheep. If I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown-ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Epicurus

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Epicurus

E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.

Life Quotes And Sayings by E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

T.H. White, The Sword in the Stone

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.

Life Quotes And Sayings by T.H. White, The Sword in the Stone

Tonny K. Brown

A friend is someone that asks, 'how are you,' and really wants to hear the truth.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Tonny K. Brown

Rachel Hawthorne, Full Moon

We were each other's rock. But did it make us each other's destiny?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Rachel Hawthorne, Full Moon

William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude / More Fruits of Solitude

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it.
Death cannot kill what never dies.
Nor can spirits ever be divided, that love and live in the same divine principle, the root and record of their friendship.
If absence be not death, neither is theirs.
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent.
In this divine glass they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure.
This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.

Life Quotes And Sayings by William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude / More Fruits of Solitude

William T. Sherman

Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.

Life Quotes And Sayings by William T. Sherman

Milan Kundera

I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Milan Kundera

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

Life Quotes And Sayings by C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

William S. Burroughs, Last Words: The Final Journals

You know a real friend?
Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.

Life Quotes And Sayings by William S. Burroughs, Last Words: The Final Journals

Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Alyson Noel, Radiance

Somewhere in the crowd was at least one potential friend who'd understand the fundamental value of goofing off.
Because if not, how boring would that be?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Alyson Noel, Radiance

Steve Lopez, The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music

It is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally have changed his chemistry by being his friend.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Steve Lopez, The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music

Anne Perry, Pentecost Alley

Please don’t think so lightly of liking someone. It’s terribly important. It is a kind of loving, you know, and one that frequently lasts a lot longer than romance. You can fall out of love, as well in. Most of us do, especially if you don’t actually like the person as well. It doesn’t always grow into love by any means, but sometimes it does.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Anne Perry, Pentecost Alley

Nalini Singh, Caressed By Ice

You're walking funny," Lucy said, a shit-eating grin on her face. Five days of out of this world sex with a starving man could do that to a girl.

"You're just jealous." Brenna pushed through the door into DarkRiver's business HQ.

Lucy made a mournful face. "Yes, I am. Goddamn but your man is hot. And he smiles at you! I've seen him do it, even if no one believes me.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Nalini Singh, Caressed By Ice

Erin Hunter, Fading Echoes

Once a friend, always a friend. Why should borders stop that?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Erin Hunter, Fading Echoes

Gautama Buddha

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Gautama Buddha

Abraham Cowley

May I a small house and large garden have;
And a few friends,
And many books, both true.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Abraham Cowley

Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

I've loved him my whole life, and somewhere along the way, that love didn't change but grew. It grew to fill the parts of me that I did not have when I was a child. It grew with every new longing of my body and desire until there was not a piece of me that did not love him. And when I look at him, there is no other feeling in me.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain

I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain

Shannon Hale, Enna Burning

And Isi always listened, never told Enna she had been foolish, never said hollow things like 'You'll be all right.' . . . Isi saw Enna's struggle and her sadness, and she understood.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Shannon Hale, Enna Burning

Christina Dodd, Into The Shadow

You and me-we've whored together. We've fought together.And I still dunna understand how ye always seems to know where the money is hidden and the liquor is stored and the scandals are richest.'
It's a gift.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Christina Dodd, Into The Shadow

Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Marlin K. Jensen

The Prophet Joseph Smith taught that “friendship is one of the grand fundamental principles of ‘Mormonism.’ ” That thought ought to inspire and motivate all of us because I feel that friendship is a fundamental need of our world. I think in all of us there is a profound longing for friendship, a deep yearning for the satisfaction and security that close and lasting relationships can give. Perhaps one reason the scriptures make little specific mention of the principle of friendship is because it should be manifest quite naturally as we live the gospel. In fact, if the consummate Christian attribute of charity has a first cousin, it is friendship.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Marlin K. Jensen

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rusty Berkus

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Rusty Berkus

David Levithan

It's b******* to think of friendship and romance being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variatons of the same desire to be close.

Life Quotes And Sayings by David Levithan

Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Sophie Kinsella, Remember Me?

But you can't stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Sophie Kinsella, Remember Me?

Jim Butcher, Changes

Lea stood upon a fallen log ahead of us, staring ahead. Mouse walked up to her.

Gggrrrr rawf arrrgggrrrrarrrr," I said.

Mouse gave me an impatient glance, and somehow--I don't know if it was something in his body language or what--I became aware that he was telling me to sit down and shut up or he'd come over and make me.

I sat down. Something in me really didn't like that idea, but when I looked around, I saw that everyone else had done it too, and that made me feel better.

Mouse said, again in what sounded like perfectly clear English, "Funny. Now restore them."

Lea turned to look at the big dog and said, "Do you dare to give me commands, hound?"

Not your hound," Mouse said. I didn't know how he was doing it. His mouth wasn't moving or anything. "Restore them before I rip your ass off. Literally rip it off."

The Leanansidhe tilted her head back and let out a low laugh. "You are far from your sources of power here, my dear demon."

I live with a wizard. I cheat." He took a step toward her and his lips peeled up from his fangs in unmistakable hostility. "You want to restore them? Or do I kill you and get them back that way?"

Lea narrowed her eyes. Then she said, "You're bluffing."

One of the big dog's huge, clawed paws dug at the ground, as if bracing him for a leap, and his growl seemed to . . . I looked down and checked. It didn't seem to shake the ground. The ground was actually shaking for several feet in every direction of the dog. Motes of blue light began to fall from his jaws, thickly enough that it looked quite a bit like he was foaming at the mouth. "Try me."

The Leanansidhe shook her head slowly. Then she said, "How did Dresden ever win you?"

He didn't," Mouse said. "I won him.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jim Butcher, Changes

Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The peace of mind one experiences on one's own, one's certainty of self in the serenity of solitude, are nothing in comparison to the release and openness and fluency one shares with another, in close companionship ...

Life Quotes And Sayings by Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers met together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be, were they to become 'unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.

Life Quotes And Sayings by A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye

Oh for God's sake,' Heather said, 'I wish you two would just go out, fail miserably as a couple, and get it over with.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye

Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe each other daily, even hourly and who keep up the impression of disinterest either because of morals or because of a mental abnormality. Between them there is listlessness and pent-up curiosity, the hysteria of an unsatisfied, unnaturally suppressed need for communion and also a kind of tense respect. Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Hilary Duff, Devoted

Soulmate" is an overused term, but a true soul connection is very rare, and very real.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Hilary Duff, Devoted

John Ortberg Jr., The Me I Want to Be: Becoming God's Best Version of You

Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend... The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear -- because peace and fear are both contagious.

Life Quotes And Sayings by John Ortberg Jr., The Me I Want to Be: Becoming God's Best Version of You

Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls

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.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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.

Life Quotes And Sayings by C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories

Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: Adventure of the Creeping Man

Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: Adventure of the Creeping Man

أروى خميّس, على الأرجوحة..تتناثر الأسرار

الصداقة باختصار هي إحدى إنجازاتنا الشخصية في هذه الحياة ..

Life Quotes And Sayings by أروى خميّس, على الأرجوحة..تتناثر الأسرار

Leah Stewart, The Myth of You and Me

So Sonia was not my only or even my first best friend. She was the last. It wasn t that I hadn t made friends since just that I thought myself past the age of that particular kind of friendship. Adult friendship doesn t grant you an exclusive isn t meant to be ranked above romance and family. I couldn t imagine ever living that moment again when you say with a shy and hopeful pride You re my best friend. The other person says it back and there you have chosen each other out of everyone else in the world.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Leah Stewart, The Myth of You and Me

Charles Kingsley

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Charles Kingsley

John Leonard

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Life Quotes And Sayings by John Leonard

Heather Duffy Stone, This Is What I Want to Tell You

We come back to the same people to learn something about how we have changed. We want to be assured that we have changed. We so want our pictures to paint differently than they do.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Heather Duffy Stone, This Is What I Want to Tell You

David Nicholls, One Day

A moment passed, perhaps half a second when their faces said what they felt, and then Emma was smiling, laughing, her arms around his neck.

Life Quotes And Sayings by David Nicholls, One Day

Toni Morrison

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Toni Morrison

Loretta Girzaitis

If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Loretta Girzaitis

Julie Metz, Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal

She was my friend and I loved her and relied on her, even though there were days when her moodiness and fragility frightened me, because they reminded me of my own tenuous grasp on life.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Julie Metz, Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal

William Penn

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably

Life Quotes And Sayings by William Penn

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

Willa Cather, My Mortal Enemy

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?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Willa Cather, My Mortal Enemy

John Masefield

The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.

Life Quotes And Sayings by John Masefield

Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

Why are you being so mean?"
"Friends tell friends the truth."
"yeah, but not to hurt, to help.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

Hayley Williams

now I'm told that this is life, that pain is just a simple comprimise so we can get what we want out of it. Would someone care to classify a broken heart and some twisted minds so I can find someone to rely on?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Hayley Williams

Kami Garcia, Beautiful Chaos

Hey, Ethan."
"Yeah?"
"Remember the Twinkie on the bus? The one I gave you in second grade, the day we met?"
"The one you found on the floor and gave me without telling me? Nice."
He grinned and shot the ball. "It never really fell on the floor. I made that part up.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Kami Garcia, Beautiful Chaos

Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

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.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

Roger Zelazny, The Guns of Avalon

Nobody steals books but your friends.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Roger Zelazny, The Guns of Avalon

Windhy Puspitadewi, Confeito

Many people walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Windhy Puspitadewi, Confeito

Denise Hildreth Jones

Some things just couldn't be protectd from storms. Some things simply needed to be broken off...Once old thing were broken off, amazingly beautiful thing could grow in their place.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Denise Hildreth Jones

Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye

He thought about this for a second. "True. But if you never really make friends, you probably don't have anyone to be your 2 a.m. Which would kind of suck.
I just looked at him as he stirred his soup, carrots spinning in the liquid. "Your what?"
"Two a.m." He swallowed, then said, "You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they're asleep or it's cold or you need to be bailed out of jail...they'll come for you. It's, like, the highest level of friendship.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye

محمد المخزنجي, البستان

إن السعادة هي أن أشرب كوب شاي.. مع صديق.. في لحظة رضا.

Life Quotes And Sayings by محمد المخزنجي, البستان

Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey

May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course, but I mean: put into words, you know, told by the fireside, or read out of a great big book with red and black letters, years and years afterwards. And people will say: "Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring!" And they will say: "Yes, that's one of my favourite stories. Frodo was very brave, wasn't he, dad?" "Yes, my boy, the famousest of the hobbits, and that's saying a lot."
'It's saying a lot too much,' said Frodo, and he laughed, a long clear laugh from his heart. Such a sound had not been heard in those places since Sauron came to Middle-earth. To Sam suddenly it seemed as if all the stones were listening and the tall rocks leaning over them. But Frodo did not heed them; he laughed again. 'Why, Sam,' he said, 'to hear you somehow makes me as merry as if the story was already written. But you've left out one of the chief characters: Samwise the stouthearted. "I want to hear more about Sam, dad. Why didn't they put in more of his talk, dad? That's what I like, it makes me laugh. And Frodo wouldn't have got far without Sam, would he, dad?"'
'Now, Mr. Frodo,' said Sam, 'you shouldn't make fun. I was serious.'
'So was I,' said Frodo, 'and so I am.

Life Quotes And Sayings by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

M.G. Wells

Small Acts of Kindness are Priceless

Life Quotes And Sayings by M.G. Wells

P.G. Wodehouse, Carry on, Jeeves

Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship.

Life Quotes And Sayings by P.G. Wodehouse, Carry on, Jeeves

David Levithan, Are We There Yet?

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.

Life Quotes And Sayings by David Levithan, Are We There Yet?

Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

When you loathe yourself, a true friend will respect your honesty. And if you’ve been fortunate in life, he will probably share your opinion.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

Immanuel Kant

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Immanuel Kant

Ashly Lorenzana

People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our lives and our souls, which are as unique as fingerprints in every way.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ashly Lorenzana

Anna Quindlen, Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake

The thing about old friends is not that they love you, but that they know you. They remember that disastrous New Year's Eve when you mixed White Russians and champagne, and how you wore that red maternity dress until everyone was sick of seeing the blaze of it in the office, and the uncomfortable couch in your first apartment and the smoky stove in your beach rental. They look at you and don't really think you look older because they've grown old along with you, and, like the faded paint in a beloved room, they're used to the look. And then one of them is gone, and you've lost a chunk of yourself. The stories of the terrorist attacks of 2001, the tsunami, the Japanese earthquake always used numbers, the deaths of thousands a measure of how great the disaster. Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Anna Quindlen, Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake

Hamka, Di Bawah Lindungan Ka'bah

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.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Hamka, Di Bawah Lindungan Ka'bah

Barbara Cohen, Seven Daughters and Seven Sons

Listen to me, Amin," I said slowly. "Listen to me very carefully. Nothing is the same. Nothing will ever be the same again. There lives on this earth a woman who can be my friend and my lover. Do you understand that? Do you understand what a marvelous thing that is?"

"A friend is a friend," Uthman interrupted, "and a woman is a woman. You can't have them in one person. The whole world knows that."

"If that's what the whole world knows, ...then the whole world is wrong. I believed the whole world, and I lost her.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Barbara Cohen, Seven Daughters and Seven Sons

Edward Young

Friendship is the wine of life.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Edward Young

Cameron Crowe

The only true currency in this bankrupt world are the moments you share with someone when you're uncool.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Cameron Crowe

Rosie Thomas

Things don't matter, people do

Life Quotes And Sayings by Rosie Thomas

Stephen Cosgrove, Buttermilk Bear

As you walk through forests
or the meadows of your mind,
Stop and talk to those you fear
Good friendships you may find

Life Quotes And Sayings by Stephen Cosgrove, Buttermilk Bear

Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius