Coco J. Ginger

Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue.
Words you can’t have back, so they linger.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Coco J. Ginger

J.K. Rowling

I have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at 21. The friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for life. They are my children’s godparents, the people to whom I’ve been able to turn in times of trouble, friends who have been kind enough not to sue me when I’ve used their names for Death Eaters. At our graduation we were bound by enormous affection, by our shared experience of a time that could never come again, and, of course, by the knowledge that we held certain photographic evidence that would be exceptionally valuable if any of us ran for Prime Minister.

Life Quotes And Sayings by J.K. Rowling

Courtney Milan

Friendship was a concept men bandied about to save face when they were rejected.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Courtney Milan

Katie MacAlister, Sex and the Single Vampire

Roxy, stop being so obnoxious!" -Joy
"I'm never obnoxious; I'm just concerned." -Roxy

Life Quotes And Sayings by Katie MacAlister, Sex and the Single Vampire

Nicole Richie

True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Nicole Richie

Bob Marley

In the high tide or low tide, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend!

Life Quotes And Sayings by Bob Marley

Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye

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

Kristin Cashore

Hidden yourself in a hole and dared to burden no one with your grievous friendship? I will have friends, Katsa. I will have a life, even though I carry this burden.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Kristin Cashore

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Luna had decorated her bedroom ceiling with five beautifully painted faces: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Neville. They were not moving as the portraits at Hogwarts moved, but there was a certain magic about them all the same: Harry thought they breathed. What appeared to be fine golden chains wove around the pictures, linking them together, but after examining them for a minute or so, Harry realized that the chains were actually one word, repeated a thousand times in golden ink: friends . . . friends . . . friends . . .

Life Quotes And Sayings by J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Stephen King, 11/22/63

If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Stephen King, 11/22/63

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry.
"No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.

Life Quotes And Sayings by J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Mikhail Naimy, The Book of Mirdad: The Strange Story of a Monastery Which Was Once Called the Ark

Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and companionless. Have will and plod along; and round each curve you shall find a new companion.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Mikhail Naimy, The Book of Mirdad: The Strange Story of a Monastery Which Was Once Called the Ark

Mario Puzo, The Godfather

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone

Life Quotes And Sayings by Mario Puzo, The Godfather

Tom Rachman, The Imperfectionists

I have to wonder if you're not being slightly naive here. I mean, are you saying that you want nothing for people? You have no motives? Everybody has motives. Name the person, the circumstances, I'll name the motive. Even saints have motives -- to feel like saints, probably. ... But still, the point of any relationship is obtaining something from another person.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Tom Rachman, The Imperfectionists

Socrates

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Socrates

Pope John Paul II, Love and Responsibility

Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Pope John Paul II, Love and Responsibility

Henry David Thoreau

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Henry David Thoreau

Deborah Day

Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Deborah Day

Henry David Thoreau

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Henry David Thoreau

Milan Kundera, Encounter

Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Milan Kundera, Encounter

Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game

The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon him, and said: "Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. There is none easier. That is a fine thing. I hope you and I shall remain friends. Perhaps you too will learn how to make fugues, Joseph.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game

Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

Malcolm Forbes

The art of conversation lies in listening

Life Quotes And Sayings by Malcolm Forbes

Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper

But that would leave Paxton to fend for herself, and the last thing any woman wanted in this kind of situation was to look around and see all the people who could help her doing nothing.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper

A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh.
"I wish I were there to be doing it, too.

Life Quotes And Sayings by A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time

You can’t really yell at your boyfriend for stealing your seat and your best friend. You also can’t yell at your best friend for stealing your boyfriend. Or you can…but Hi seemed like a much easier way to start the morning.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time

Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.

Life Quotes And Sayings by George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a violin lying ready at his hand! How I should have slipped up to him in his quiet hour, noiselessly climbing the winding stair to take him by surprise, and then with talk and music we should have held heavenly festival throughout the night!

Life Quotes And Sayings by Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

Stephen Fry

If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Stephen Fry

Kim Dallmeier

I was thinking not very long ago about the difference between the people we "grew up" with vs. the people we're "growing old" with - not always being one and the same - and how time (and the memories we forge together) really does strengthen pretty much all of our relationships/friendships (whether they had started on the right foot or not). And I guess what I've mostly learned (by moving to NZ especially) is that the more Significant people you have in your life, the more 'manageable' the idea of loss, losing a loved-one, can become - not because you can replace them (obviously you can't) or because they're interchangeable (no one is), but because like a foundation to a house the more pillars you have (people you love) holding it up (loving you) the more solid/resilient you become - and from there, I find you're better equipped to overcome whatever life throws your way. That said time does pass us by very quickly. I find it much more noticeable through our growing kids than ever before.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Kim Dallmeier

A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.

Life Quotes And Sayings by A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver

A single person is a manageable entity, whom you can either make friends with or leave alone. But half of a married couple is not exactly a whole human being: if the marriage is successful it is something a little more than that; if unsuccessful, a little less. In either case, a fresh complication is added to the already intricate business of friendship: as Clem had once remarked, you might as well try to dance a tarantella with a Siamese twin.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver

Aristotle

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Aristotle

Minrose Gwin

There is such a thing as crazy-mother bonding. . . . It happens when one realizes the other also has had a crazy mother, and it is both painful and pleasurable. There are more crazy mothers than you might think.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Minrose Gwin

David Levithan, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.

Life Quotes And Sayings by David Levithan, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

C. JoyBell C.

Friendship is so important. The goal of a good friendship should be for life! To keep it for life! If you find a friendship, and it gives you a joy inside, a peace, and a freedom; keep that friendship for life. Through it all, you stay together. So many friendships are toxic, but the good ones are really good! I always tell my son this, I always say, a friend is for life!

Life Quotes And Sayings by C. JoyBell C.

E.B. White, Charlotte's Web

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

Life Quotes And Sayings by E.B. White, Charlotte's Web

Coco J. Ginger

I won’t let you have it. I won’t give you this moment. I won’t let you fill up this valuable organ...I own it. I won’t do it. I can’t think, I won’t think about it.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Coco J. Ginger

John Green, Looking for Alaska

I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.

Life Quotes And Sayings by John Green, Looking for Alaska

C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

Even in your hobbies, has there not always been some secret attraction which the others are curiously ignorant of--something, not to be identified with, but always on the verge of breaking through, the smell of cut wood in the workshop or the clap-clap of water against the boat's side? Are not all lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it. All the things that have ever deeply possesed your soul have been but hints of it--tantalizing glimspes, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if it should really become manifest--if there ever came an echo that did not die away but swelled into the sound itself--you would know it. Beyond all possibility of doubt you would say 'Here at last is the thing I was made for.' We cannot tell each other about it. It is the secret signature of each soul, the incommunicable and unappeasable want, the things we desired before we met our wives or made our friends or chose our work, and which we shall still desire on our deathbeds, when the mind no longer knows wife or friend or work. While we are, this is. If we lose this, we lose all.

Life Quotes And Sayings by C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

Rachel Cohn, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Rachel Cohn, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

Dee Remy, There Once Was A Boy

Every men wanted to be his friend and every woman wanted to be in his bed

Life Quotes And Sayings by Dee Remy, There Once Was A Boy

P.G. Wodehouse

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

Life Quotes And Sayings by P.G. Wodehouse

George Lucas, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

We’re a couple of shooting stars, Biggs, and we’ll never be stopped.

Life Quotes And Sayings by George Lucas, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Oscar Wilde

Friendship...is not something you learn in school,but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Oscar Wilde

Mahatma Gandhi

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Mahatma Gandhi

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

Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says "Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed"--because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk

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

John Holmes

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

Life Quotes And Sayings by John Holmes

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

The more invested I am in my own ideas about reality, the more those experiences will feel like victimizations rather than the ups and downs of relating. Actually, I believe that the less I conceptualize things that way, the more likely it is that people will want to stay by me, because they will not feel burdened, consciously or unconsciously, by my projections, judgments, entitlements, or unrealistic expectations.

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

John Churton Collins

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

Life Quotes And Sayings by John Churton Collins

Ilona Andrews, Magic Strikes

You’re like a god from a Greek myth, Saiman. You have no empathy. You have no concept of the world beyond your ego. Wanting something gives you an automatic right to obtain it by whatever means necessary with no regard to the damage it may do. I would be careful if I were you. Friends and objects of deities’ desires dropped like flies. In the end the gods always ended up miserable and alone."
— Kate Daniels

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ilona Andrews, Magic Strikes

Diane Von Furstenberg

When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Diane Von Furstenberg

Cat Clarke, Torn

This is the real way a friendship ends. Not with some huge screaming row, but with a gradual withdrawal. You’d think it would be less painful this way.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Cat Clarke, Torn

Walter Dean Myers, Slam!

Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Walter Dean Myers, Slam!

Jarod Kintz, There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

The best part about being kidnapped is being blindfolded and getting kicked into the trunk of a car. Boy, normally I have to beg my friends to treat me that well.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jarod Kintz, There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

I don’t feel very much like Pooh today," said Pooh.

"There there," said Piglet. "I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.

Life Quotes And Sayings by A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

Mark Fiore, You Are Loved . . . an email memoir

I'd rather be single, happy, and lonely sometimes than married, lonely, and happy sometimes.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Mark Fiore, You Are Loved . . . an email memoir

Richard Bach

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Richard Bach

Rosemary Sutcliff, The Shining Company

See now, for a good blade, one that will not betray the man in battle, rods of hard and soft iron must be heated and braided together. Then is the blade folded over and hammered flat again, and maybe yet again, many times for the finest blades... So the hard and soft iron are mingled without blending, before the blade is hammered up to its finished form and tempered, and ground to an edge that shall draw blood from the wind. So comes the pattern, like oil and water that mingle but do not mix. Yet it is the strength of the blade, for without the hard iron the blade would bend in battle, and without the soft iron it would break.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Rosemary Sutcliff, The Shining Company

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.

Life Quotes And Sayings by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?
We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Annette Curtis Klause

Puck shook her head ruefully. "We haven't even solved the first problem, and I'm worrying about the next one. I must be an idiot."

"No," Hush said, wiggling an impossible finger at her. "Only kindness. Very much kindness.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Annette Curtis Klause

Jarod Kintz, It Occurred to Me

When a girl says she wants to be friends with benefits, I always ask if that includes dental insurance.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jarod Kintz, It Occurred to Me

Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses

[Robert's eulogy at his brother, Ebon C. Ingersoll's grave. Even the great orator Robert Ingersoll was choked up with tears at the memory of his beloved brother]

The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet, unselfish act is now a perfumed flower.

Dear Friends: I am going to do that which the dead oft promised he would do for me.

The loved and loving brother, husband, father, friend, died where manhood's morning almost touches noon, and while the shadows still were falling toward the west.

He had not passed on life's highway the stone that marks the highest point; but, being weary for a moment, he lay down by the wayside, and, using his burden for a pillow, fell into that dreamless sleep that kisses down his eyelids still. While yet in love with life and raptured with the world, he passed to silence and pathetic dust.

Yet, after all, it may be best, just in the happiest, sunniest hour of all the voyage, while eager winds are kissing every sail, to dash against the unseen rock, and in an instant hear the billows roar above a sunken ship. For whether in mid sea or 'mong the breakers of the farther shore, a wreck at last must mark the end of each and all. And every life, no matter if its every hour is rich with love and every moment jeweled with a joy, will, at its close, become a tragedy as sad and deep and dark as can be woven of the warp and woof of mystery and death.

This brave and tender man in every storm of life was oak and rock; but in the sunshine he was vine and flower. He was the friend of all heroic souls. He climbed the heights, and left all superstitions far below, while on his forehead fell the golden dawning, of the grander day.

He loved the beautiful, and was with color, form, and music touched to tears. He sided with the weak, the poor, and wronged, and lovingly gave alms. With loyal heart and with the purest hands he faithfully discharged all public trusts.

He was a worshipper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For Justice all place a temple, and all season, summer!' He believed that happiness was the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest. He added to the sum of human joy; and were every one to whom he did some loving service to bring a blossom to his grave, he would sleep to-night beneath a wilderness of flowers.

Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word; but in the night of death hope sees a star and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

He who sleeps here, when dying, mistaking the approach of death for the return of health, whispered with his latest breath, 'I am better now.' Let us believe, in spite of doubts and dogmas, of fears and tears, that these dear words are true of all the countless dead.

And now, to you, who have been chosen, from among the many men he loved, to do the last sad office for the dead, we give his sacred dust.

Speech cannot contain our love. There was, there is, no gentler, stronger, manlier man.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses

O. Henry, Heart of the West

No friendship is an accident.

Life Quotes And Sayings by O. Henry, Heart of the West

Mark Twain

I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Mark Twain

Alice Walker

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Alice Walker

Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir

What do you most value in your friends?
Their continued existence.

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

Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up.
"You're cute when you're worried," she muttered. "Your eyebrows get all scrunched together."
"You are not going to die while I owe you a favor," I said. "Why did you take that knife?"
"You would've done the same for me."
It was true. I guess we both knew it. Still, I felt like somebody was poking my heart with a cold metal rod.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude

Did he ever--try?'
Mingus shrugged. 'He was like you.'
What's that mean?'
Means he tried.'
Of course. The ring was not a neutral tool. It judged its wearer: Aaron Doily flew drunkenly, and Dylan flew like a coward, only when it didn't matter, at the Windles' pond. So if had attuned to Robert Woolfolk's chaos.
Don't tell me,' said Dylan. 'He flew sideways.'
Mingus left it vague. He'd always made it his habit to protect their honor against one another--Dylan, Arthur, Robert. To say nothing.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude

S.E. Hinton

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.

Life Quotes And Sayings by S.E. Hinton

Tuteh

Temukan dirimu pada sahabat-sahabatmu

Life Quotes And Sayings by Tuteh

Jim Henson, Favorite Songs from Jim Henson's Muppets

There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jim Henson, Favorite Songs from Jim Henson's Muppets

Melanie Gideon, Wife 22

When I'm in pain I want everyone I love on the island with me, sitting around the fire, getting drunk on coconut milk, banging out a plan.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Melanie Gideon, Wife 22

Sylvia Plath

We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Sylvia Plath

Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

We'll be there, Harry," said Ron
"What?"
"At your Aunt and Uncle's house," said Ron, "And then we'll go with you wherever you're going."
"No-" said Harry quickly; he hadn't counted on this, he had meant them to understand that he was undertaking the most dangerous journey alone.
"You said it once before," said Hermione quickly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've had time, haven't we? We're with you whatever happens.

Life Quotes And Sayings by J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

J.M. Darhower, Sempre

A girl would be lucky to have you, but not like this, Carmine. Not the way you treat people now. You're wasting your time, and it's not worth it. You need to find something that is. So, maybe your life isn’t boring, but it has to be unfulfilling.

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Christopher Hitchens, Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Christopher Hitchens, Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

Aristotle

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Aristotle

Robin Brande

Is it just me, or is that guy the coolest boyfriend ever invented?"
"It’s not just you." And there was that same dull pain-the one I get sometimes when I see the two of them together and realize I’ll never have that.
I gave Amanda a smile. "He’s great. I’m really happy for you."
And that was a hundred percent true.
But it didn’t make it hurt any less.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Robin Brande

L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

True friends are always together in spirit. (Anne Shirley)

Life Quotes And Sayings by L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Jude Morgan, Indiscretion

You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jude Morgan, Indiscretion

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?"

"It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties."

"To establish ties?"

"Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world....

Life Quotes And Sayings by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Richelle E. Goodrich, Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher

He was everything I needed because his entire character had been molded by my deepest wants and desires. He was my rock when I cried, my playmate when I laughed, and my hero when I needed to imagine that one existed for me.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Richelle E. Goodrich, Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher

Arthur Brisbane

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Arthur Brisbane

Walt Whitman

WE two boys together clinging,
One the other never leaving,
Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making,
Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching,
Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving.
No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving,
threatening,
Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on
the turf or the sea-beach dancing,
Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness
chasing,
Fulfilling our foray.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Walt Whitman

Gloria Naylor

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Gloria Naylor

Gina Barreca, It's Not That I'm Bitter . . .: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World

How about "diamonds are a girl's best friends"? Nope. It should be switched around and pointed out, instead, that your best friends are diamonds.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Gina Barreca, It's Not That I'm Bitter . . .: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Harry - you're a great wizard, you know."
"I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him.
"Me!" said Hermione. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery and - oh Harry - be careful!

Life Quotes And Sayings by J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Eustace Budgell

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness in another.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Eustace Budgell

Barbara Kingsolver

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Barbara Kingsolver

Cecelia Ahern, If You Could See Me Now

the important thing is not what we (look) like,but the role we play in our best friend's life.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Cecelia Ahern, If You Could See Me Now

Whitney Otto, How to Make an American Quilt

Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Whitney Otto, How to Make an American Quilt

George Eliot

Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.

Life Quotes And Sayings by George Eliot

Marilyn Monroe

When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you treat them like nothing. Learn to be a good friend because one day you're gonna look up and say I lost a good friend. Learn how to be respectful to your friends, don't just start arguments with them and don't tell them the reason, always remember your friends will be there quicker than your family. Learn to remember you got great friends, don't forget that and they will always care for you no matter what. Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Marilyn Monroe

Cressida Cowell, How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse

Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak.

Somebody who has spent a lot of time with us, and listens carefully to what we are trying to say, and tries to understand.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Cressida Cowell, How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.

Life Quotes And Sayings by J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

E. Lockhart, The Treasure Map of Boys: Noel, Jackson, Finn, Hutch, Gideon—and me, Ruby Oliver

..we'll deal with it, because the good outweighs the bad.

Life Quotes And Sayings by E. Lockhart, The Treasure Map of Boys: Noel, Jackson, Finn, Hutch, Gideon—and me, Ruby Oliver

Amos Bronson Alcott, Concord Days

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Amos Bronson Alcott, Concord Days

Fujiko F. Fujio, Doraemon 1

Hold on, Nobita-kun, I'll come rescue you.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Fujiko F. Fujio, Doraemon 1

William Shakespeare

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

Life Quotes And Sayings by William Shakespeare

Slavoj Žižek, In Defense of Lost Causes

Alain Badiou was once seated amongst the public in a room where I was delivering a talk, when his cellphone (which, to add insult to injury, was mine -- I had lent it to him) all of a sudden started to ring. Instead of turning it off, he gently interrupted me and asked me if I could talk more softly, so that he could hear his interlocutor more clearly . . . If this was not an act of true friendship, I do not know what friendship is. So, this book is dedicated to Alain Badiou.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Slavoj Žižek, In Defense of Lost Causes

Oscar Wilde

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Oscar Wilde

Susane Colasanti, Take Me There

That's the cool thing about having a best friend. They know what your pain feels like already, so you don't have to explain it.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Susane Colasanti, Take Me There

Jarod Kintz, I Want Two apply for a job at our country's largest funeral home, and then wear a suit and noose to the job interview.

I want to grow a flower for every time someone tells me “F*** you.” Then I’ll go back to that person and pin the flower on their lapel in a gesture of friendship. And while they are looking down on it in astonishment, I’ll bunch up my knuckles and punch them in the face.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jarod Kintz, I Want Two apply for a job at our country's largest funeral home, and then wear a suit and noose to the job interview.

Shelly Crane, Significance

It's my job as best friend to make sure he's not a serial killer. Or an English major, not sure which one's worse.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Shelly Crane, Significance

Richard Bach

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Richard Bach

Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

Marilyn Monroe

Friendship is the bestiest thing that comes to life . Friends will always be there for you don't worry about the fakes worry about the people who had your back from the start and never treated you wrong always remember they are your real friends don't never take them as granted because one day your going to lose a good friend by the way your action's are when you see a good friend stick to that person .

Life Quotes And Sayings by Marilyn Monroe

Samuel Johnson

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Samuel Johnson

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.

Life Quotes And Sayings by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

I certainly should have,' he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally-accepted bit of nonsense it is, that your best friends must necessarily be the ones who best understand you. As if there weren't far too much understanding in the world already; above all, that understanding between lovers, celebrated in song and story, which is actually such torture that no two of them can bear it without frequent separations or fights.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

George Herbert

The best mirror is an old friend.

Life Quotes And Sayings by George Herbert

Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir

I certainly didn't concur with Edward on everything, but I was damned if I would hear him abused without saying a word. And I think this may be worth setting down, because there are other allegiances that can be stress-tested in comparable ways. It used to be a slight hallmark of being English or British that one didn't make a big thing out of patriotic allegiance, and was indeed brimful of sarcastic and critical remarks about the old country, but would pull oneself together and say a word or two if it was attacked or criticized in any nasty or stupid manner by anybody else. It's family, in other words, and friends are family to me. I feel rather the same way about being an American, and also about being of partly Jewish descent. To be any one of these things is to be no better than anyone else, but no worse. When confronted by certain enemies, it is increasingly the 'most definitely no worse' half of this unspoken agreement on which I tend to lay the emphasis. (As with Camus’s famous 'neither victim nor executioner,' one hastens to assent but more and more to say 'definitely not victim.')

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ralph Waldo Emerson

J.M. Darhower, Sempre

I'm not that bad,” he said. “I'm rich, popular. I have a sense of humor. I'm good looking, and not to mention I have a really big—

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

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.

Life Quotes And Sayings by J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

D.H. Lawrence

Aren't I enough for you?' she asked.
'No,' he said. 'You are enough for me, as far as a woman is concerned. You are all women to me. But I wanted a man friend, as eternal as you and I are eternal.'
(Women in Love)

Life Quotes And Sayings by D.H. Lawrence

James Lecesne

This is how it works. I love the people in my life, and I do for my friends whatever they need me to do for them, again and again, as many times as is necessary. For example, in your case you always forgot who you are and how much you're loved. So what I do for you as your friend is remind you who you are and tell you how much I love you. And this isn't any kind of burden for me, because I love who you are very much. Every time I remind you, I get to remember with you, which is my pleasure.

Life Quotes And Sayings by James Lecesne

David Nicholls

So they were pen pals now, Emma composing long, intense letters crammed with jokes and underlining, forced banter and barely concealed longing; two-thousand-word acts of love on air-mail paper. Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them. In return, Dexter sent her postcards with insufficient postage: ‘Amsterdam is MAD’, ‘Barcelona INSANE’, ‘Dublin ROCKS. Sick as DOG this morning.’ As a travel writer, he was no Bruce Chatwin, but still she would slip the postcards in the pocket of a heavy coat on long soulful walks on Ilkley Moor, searching for some hidden meaning in ‘VENICE COMPLETELY FLOODED!!!!

Life Quotes And Sayings by David Nicholls

Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons

Albert J. Nimeth OFM, I Like You Just Because: Thoughts on Friendship

More than anything
we have to realize
we cannot
drain the cup of friendship,
taking all we can get
of care, attention and
concern
without doing our share
to help refill
the cup.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Albert J. Nimeth OFM, I Like You Just Because: Thoughts on Friendship

Elie Wiesel

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Elie Wiesel

Mike A. Lancaster, Human.4

Without the friendship we'd never have discovered the reason we were friends.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Mike A. Lancaster, Human.4

Bette Midler

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Bette Midler

Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them

Life Quotes And Sayings by Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

Clare Ansberry, The Women of Troy Hill: The Back-Fence Virtues of Faith and Friendship

Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Clare Ansberry, The Women of Troy Hill: The Back-Fence Virtues of Faith and Friendship

Friedrich Nietzsche

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Friedrich Nietzsche

Joe Abercrombie

A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Joe Abercrombie

P.C. Cast

If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh.

Life Quotes And Sayings by P.C. Cast

Isabel Allende, Portrait in Sepia

La verdadera amistad resiste el tiempo, la distancia y el silencio.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Isabel Allende, Portrait in Sepia

Jay McInerney, The Last of the Savages

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jay McInerney, The Last of the Savages

Michelangelo Saez, Zori 2ª Parte

Better a friend to all his weight in gold.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Michelangelo Saez, Zori 2ª Parte

Ally Condie, Matched

Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ally Condie, Matched

Coco J. Ginger

…so many ticks steadily around the clock. My heart beats ferociously, as if to say it will not digest this leaving. But you are gone. I could never look into your tormenting eyes again. You mock me with each word you choose…. of the millions of words in the English tongue you could have chosen…you select the one’s that break me down.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Coco J. Ginger

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
"Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Albert Einstein

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Albert Einstein

Charles Lamb, The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Charles Lamb, The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb

L.M. Montgomery

When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.

Life Quotes And Sayings by L.M. Montgomery

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

Nina LaCour, Hold Still

No," I say. "I didn't know that," and as I say it I feel flooded with bitterness at all the things Ingrid kept secret from me.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Nina LaCour, Hold Still

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Margaret Lee Runbeck

Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable

I just want you to know that where ever life takes you, I'll always be happy for you as long as its something that makes you happy because that's all that really makes me happy. Why? I'm just listening to my heart and all it's telling me is to understand. Which in a way I can but then again I can't. I'm use to it all though because not everyone lives a fair life if you know what I mean.

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

Abraham Lincoln

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Abraham Lincoln

Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome, and their close alliance was probably for the same reason.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

He must have known I'd want to leave you."
"No, he must have known you would always want to come back.

Life Quotes And Sayings by J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

Meredith Ann Pierce, Dark Moon

I’ll not let the pair of you charge boldly into wolves’ teeth without me alongside

Life Quotes And Sayings by Meredith Ann Pierce, Dark Moon

A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?

Life Quotes And Sayings by A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

David Gemmell, Shield of Thunder

Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.

Life Quotes And Sayings by David Gemmell, Shield of Thunder

Gillian Anderson

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Gillian Anderson

Saul Bellow

I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the "warehouse of good intentions": "Can't do it now." "Then put it on hold." This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death--because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Saul Bellow

A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

Life Quotes And Sayings by A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

Euripides

One loyal friend is worth 10 thousand relatives

Life Quotes And Sayings by Euripides

Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy

Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy

William Shakespeare

Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.

Life Quotes And Sayings by William Shakespeare

Rumi

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Rumi

Stephen Richards

The most valuable gift you can receive is an honest friend.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Stephen Richards

Shel Silverstein

How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Shel Silverstein

Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel

My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.

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

Muhammad Ali

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Muhammad Ali

Richard Paul Evans, Lost December

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Richard Paul Evans, Lost December

Jon Katz

I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jon Katz

Neal A. Maxwell, All These Things Shall Give Thee Experience

Perfect love is perfectly patient.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Neal A. Maxwell, All These Things Shall Give Thee Experience

Aristotle

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Aristotle

William Shakespeare

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.

Life Quotes And Sayings by William Shakespeare

E.B. White, Charlotte's Web

Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.

Life Quotes And Sayings by E.B. White, Charlotte's Web

Jim Butcher, Changes

Murphy watched me thoughtfully for several empty seconds. Then she said, very gently, "You're a good man, Harry."

I swallowed and bowed my head, made humble by the tone of her voice and the expression on her face, more than the words themselves.

Not always rational," she said, smiling. "But you're the best kind of crazy.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jim Butcher, Changes

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... 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

Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

Ich finde es überflüssig, mich mit Leuten abzugeben, die später mal keine Rolle mehr in meinem Leben spielen werden.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

A.A. Milne

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Life Quotes And Sayings by A.A. Milne

Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

I would carry some of it if I could, Bean said silently. Like I did today, you can turn it over to me and I’ll do it, if I can. You don’t have to do this alone.

Only even as he thought this, Bean knew it wasn’t true. If it could be done, Ender was the one who would have to do it. All those months when Bean refused to see Ender, hid from him, it was because he couldn’t bear to face the fact that Ender was what Bean only wished to be — the kind of person on whom you could put all your hopes, who could carry all your fears, and he would not let you down, would not betray you.

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.

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

Helen Keller

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Helen Keller

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

When the two people who thus discover that they are on the same secret road are of different sexes, the friendship which arises between them will very easily pass – may pass in the first half hour – into erotic love. Indeed, unless they are physically repulsive to each other or unless one or both already loves elsewhere, it is almost certain to do so sooner or later. And conversely, erotic love may lead to Friendship between the lovers. But this, so far from obliterating the distinction between the two loves, puts it in a clearer light. If one who was first, in the deep and full sense, your Friend, is then gradually or suddenly revealed as also your lover you will certainly not want to share the Beloved’s erotic love with any third. But you will have no jealousy at all about sharing the Friendship. Nothing so enriches an erotic love as the discovery that the Beloved can deeply, truly and spontaneously enter into Friendship with the Friends you already had; to feel that not only are we two united by erotic love but we three or four or five are all travelers on the same quest, have all a common vision.

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

Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.

Life Quotes And Sayings by A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

Rachael Wade, Preservation

I better go," Carter squeezed me once more and stood, grabbing his wallet from the coffee table. "I need to hit up the lottery if I want to get you out of this mess. Will you let me buy a monkey if we win, though?"

"Only if you buy me an island off the coast of Fiji."

"You crazy-ass woman. A monkey is so much cooler than an island."

"How about a monkey IN Fiji?"

"Now there's a woman after my own heart," Carter slapped his hand to his chest, sighing dramatically. "I'll let you know if we win." He started for the door.

"Uh huh."

"You'll know if we do. I'll be the one streaking on Pike Street.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Rachael Wade, Preservation

Henri J.M. Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Henri J.M. Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

Sherwood Smith

If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people."

"And a lot fewer poems and plays," I said, laughing as I splashed about in the scented water.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Sherwood Smith

Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Marlene Dietrich

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Marlene Dietrich

Nadia Scrieva, Fathoms of Forgiveness

Each meeting occurs at the precise moment for which it was meant. Usually, when it will have the greatest impact on our lives.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Nadia Scrieva, Fathoms of Forgiveness

Jess C. Scott, The Intern

When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jess C. Scott, The Intern

Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

Because thou writest me often, I thank thee ... Never do I receive a letter from thee, but immediately we are together.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read friendship.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

Alfred Tennyson

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Alfred Tennyson

Toni Sorenson

Certain people will be upset when you speak the truth. They might get mad. They might get really mad. That's because they are still living the lie you've exposed. Stay strong. Speak truth. Do not allow yourself to get pulled back into their lie just to make others happy and yourself miserable. You are free. Stay free.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Toni Sorenson

Linda Grayson

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Linda Grayson

Mark Twain

I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Mark Twain

A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you.

Life Quotes And Sayings by A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven

He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven

Bob Marley

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Bob Marley

Coco J. Ginger

....finally I see that it’s never been me, just a blanket that keeps you warm. Easily tossed along
when something flashier or someone prettier comes along. Your heart I held so carefully, I see, this was all just a game...

Life Quotes And Sayings by Coco J. Ginger

A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

Life Quotes And Sayings by A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

Joquesse Eugenia

I no longer have the energy for meaningless friendships, forced interactions or unnecessary conversations. If we don’t vibrate on the same frequency there’s just no reason for us to waste our time. I’d rather have no one and wait for substance than to not feel someone and fake the funk.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Joquesse Eugenia

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Friedrich Nietzsche

Lindsey Kelk, I Heart New York

If you didn't feel like your support system was strong enough, then getting yourself out of the situation was the best thing to do

Life Quotes And Sayings by Lindsey Kelk, I Heart New York

Mark Twain

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Mark Twain

Héloïse d'Argenteuil, The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse

If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Héloïse d'Argenteuil, The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse

Elbert Hubbard

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Elbert Hubbard

John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love

It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.

Life Quotes And Sayings by John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love

Albert Camus

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Albert Camus

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.

Life Quotes And Sayings by J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

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