Thứ Bảy, 31 tháng 5, 2014

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

Thứ Sáu, 30 tháng 5, 2014

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

Thứ Năm, 29 tháng 5, 2014

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

Thứ Tư, 28 tháng 5, 2014

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

Thứ Ba, 27 tháng 5, 2014

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

Thứ Hai, 26 tháng 5, 2014

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

Chủ Nhật, 25 tháng 5, 2014

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

Thứ Bảy, 24 tháng 5, 2014

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

Thứ Sáu, 23 tháng 5, 2014

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

Thứ Năm, 22 tháng 5, 2014

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

Thứ Tư, 21 tháng 5, 2014

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

Thứ Ba, 20 tháng 5, 2014

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

Thứ Hai, 19 tháng 5, 2014

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

Chủ Nhật, 18 tháng 5, 2014

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

Thứ Bảy, 17 tháng 5, 2014

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

Thứ Sáu, 16 tháng 5, 2014

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

Thứ Năm, 15 tháng 5, 2014

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

Thứ Tư, 14 tháng 5, 2014

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

Thứ Ba, 13 tháng 5, 2014

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

Louise Rennison, Away Laughing on a Fast Camel

I wanted to kill her and make her eat her fringe. And her knickers.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Louise Rennison, Away Laughing on a Fast Camel

Erin Hunter, Fire and Ice

[Fireheart]mewed,"It's not my place to judge you." Greystripe looked up as Fireheart went on." Greystripe, whatever you decide to do, I will always be your friend.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Erin Hunter, Fire and Ice

Thứ Hai, 12 tháng 5, 2014

Chris Bradford, The Way of the Sword

Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world.

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

Charles Caleb Colton

A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Charles Caleb Colton

John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

It could be a meeting on the street, or a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, then suddenly there is a flash of recognition and the embers of kinship glow. There is an awakening between you, a sense of ancient knowing.

Life Quotes And Sayings by John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Kate Kerrigan, The Miracle of Grace

We both grew so used to each other, so comfortable with the naturalness and ease of our friendship, that we became sloppy about keeping our relationship a secret. It was not that we were physically demonstrative or obviously in love, more that it had become impossible for us to hide our close involvement. We had gradually acquired the unmistakable air of old-love: finishing each other's sentences and speaking to each other with an offhand, presuming intimacy that was eventually noticed.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Kate Kerrigan, The Miracle of Grace

Blaise Pascal

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

Life Quotes And Sayings by Blaise Pascal

Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Chủ Nhật, 11 tháng 5, 2014

Epicurus, A Guide To Happiness

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Epicurus, A Guide To Happiness

Criss Jami

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Criss Jami

Jim Butcher, White Night

Loneliness is a hard thing to handle. I feel it, sometimes. When I do, I want it to end. Sometimes, when you're near someone, when you touch them on some level that is deeper than the uselessly structured formality of casual civilized interaction, there's a sense of satisfaction in it. Or at least, there is for me. It doesn't have to be someone particularly nice. You don't have to like them. You don't even have to want to work with them. You might even want to punch them in the nose. Sometimes just making that connection is its own experience, its own reward.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jim Butcher, White Night

Jess C. Scott, The Intern

Please, touch me, I pray.

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

Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

Jess C. Scott, New Order

I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jess C. Scott, New Order

Thứ Bảy, 10 tháng 5, 2014

Nina LaCour, Hold Still

There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We'd be hanging out somewhere and everything would just fit right and I would think 'it will be okay if it can just be like this forever' but of course nothing can ever stay just how it is forever.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Nina LaCour, Hold Still

Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.

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

Thứ Sáu, 9 tháng 5, 2014

Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable

It's better to have a few faithful friends than numerous shallow friendships.

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

Kody Keplinger, The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend

"...we’re all fucking Duffs.”
(Designated Ugly Fat Friend)
“I’m not the Duff,” Wesley said confidently.
“That’s because you don’t have friends.” (Bianca)
“Oh. Right.”

Life Quotes And Sayings by Kody Keplinger, The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend

Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca

We approach the house and I wave at Jimmy.
"And if he thinks he's eating with us, he's got another thing coming," my dad says.
Jimmy approaches us and takes the shopping bags from me, looking inside them.
"Lamb roast. Am I invited?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca

Brian Thompson, A Monkey Among Crocodiles: The Life, Loves And Lawsuits Of Mrs Georgina Weldon

I feel a horror for exaggerated love or friendship. It's just too well demonstrated to me that when the moment comes that one asks something, or has need of something, the responce is not worth a biscuit.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Brian Thompson, A Monkey Among Crocodiles: The Life, Loves And Lawsuits Of Mrs Georgina Weldon

Thứ Năm, 8 tháng 5, 2014

Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl

My friends call me by my name."
"You don't have any friends."
"I don't want you to be my friend, Selia, or my servant, not now. I thought you were both. You have let me know I was wrong. So are you to treat me so. You are wrong.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl

Pam Brown

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Pam Brown

Christopher Morley

If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Christopher Morley

Robin McKinley, Spindle's End

When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Robin McKinley, Spindle's End

Richard Ford

What's friendship's realest measure?
I'll tell you. The amount of precious time you'll squander on someone else's calamities and fuck-ups.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Richard Ford

Thứ Tư, 7 tháng 5, 2014

Mary Shelley

. . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Mary Shelley

Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. 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. And they were my heroes.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

L. Frank Baum, The Road to Oz

You have some queer friends, Dorothy,' she said.

The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends,' was the answer

Life Quotes And Sayings by L. Frank Baum, The Road to Oz

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

You know, Jacob, if it weren’t for the fact that we’re natural enemies and that you’re also trying to steal away the reason for my existence, I might actually like you.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

Thứ Ba, 6 tháng 5, 2014

Jackson Pollock

Love is friendship set to music.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jackson Pollock

Aesop, Aesop's Fables

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Aesop, Aesop's Fables

Robin Wasserman, Greed

They had battled and bloodied one another, they had kept secrets, broken hearts, lied, betrayed, exiled, they had walked away, said goodbye and sworn it was forever, and somehow, every time, they had mended, they had forgiven, they had survived. Some mistakes could never be fixed - some, but not all. Some people can't be driven away, no matter how hard you try. Some friendships won't break.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Robin Wasserman, Greed

Kathryn Stockett, The Help

Once upon a time they was two girls," I say. "one girl had black skin, one girl had white."
Mae Mobley look up at me. She listening.
"Little colored girl say to little white girl, 'How come your skin be so pale?' White girl say, 'I don't know. How come your skin be so black? What you think that mean?'
"But neither one a them little girls knew. So little white girl say, 'Well, let's see. You got hair, I got hair.'"I gives Mae Mobley a little tousle on her head.
"Little colored girl say 'I got a nose, you got a nose.'"I gives her little snout a tweak. She got to reach up and do the same to me.
"Little white girl say, 'I got toes, you got toes.' And I do the little thing with her toes, but she can't get to mine cause I got my white work shoes on.
"'So we's the same. Just a different color', say that little colored girl. The little white girl she agreed and they was friends. The End."
Baby Girl just look at me. Law, that was a sorry story if I ever heard one. Wasn't even no plot to it. But Mae Mobley, she smile and say, "Tell it again.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Kathryn Stockett, The Help

Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

Jem gave her a wistful look. “Must you go? I was rather hoping that you’d stay and be a ministering angel, but if you must go, you must.”
“I’ll stay,” Will said a bit crossly, and threw himself down in the armchair Tessa had just vacated. “I can minister angelically.”
“None too convincingly. And you’re not as pretty to look at as Tessa is,” Jem said, closing his eyes as he leaned back against the pillow.
“How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared it to gazing at the radiance of the sun.”
Jem still had his eyes closed. “If they mean that it gives you a headache, they aren’t wrong.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

Thứ Hai, 5 tháng 5, 2014

Nina LaCour, Hold Still

I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Nina LaCour, Hold Still

George Gordon Byron

Friendship is love without wings.

Life Quotes And Sayings by George Gordon Byron

Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy

Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy

Patricia Briggs

He sighed. " I don't think an apology will do, Mercy. Because an apology implies that you wouldn't do it again. And, under the circumstances, you wouldn't do anything differently, would you?"

"No.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Patricia Briggs

L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.

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

Chủ Nhật, 4 tháng 5, 2014

Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

آيه فوزي

أجمل شيء في الدنيا أن تجد صديق يسأل عنك بحب .. تشعر به في نبرة صوته و تعبيراته .. ليس بسبب فضول يقتله .. أو مجرد قيام بواجبه تجاهك .. وقتها تحب جدا منه كلمة " كيف حالك

Life Quotes And Sayings by آيه فوزي

Marc Bolan, Marc Bolan Lyric Book

A DAY LAYE"

"Every dawn of our lives a heart is forged and
Linked with lore to one so similar
Born with blessed life dust
Stored beneath its soul
To bless and pass onto its children
Even though the wind may blow it all away
Don't ever worry 'cos I'm your friend.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Marc Bolan, Marc Bolan Lyric Book

J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

Best friends, no matter what they do or how much they hurt you, it only hurts as much as it does because they are your best friend. And none of us are perfect. Mistakes were made for best friends to forgive; it’s what makes being a best friend official.

Life Quotes And Sayings by J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

C.J. Cherryh

There was love, a reliable and real love grown in a handful of days, and Tristan did not know why it was: friendship had happened to both of them, on the sudden, completely aside from Tristan's both endangering and saving Crissand's life.

It was no reason related to that, it was no reason that either of them quite knew. Crissand had simply risen on his horizon like the sun of his banner...and that was that....They were together, and there was a great deal right with the day simply in that.

Life Quotes And Sayings by C.J. Cherryh

Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats—let you know if you’re off course. But it ain’t always possible…

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

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs.

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

John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. Such friendship is creative and critical; it is willing to negotiate awkward and uneven territories of contradiction and woundedness.

Life Quotes And Sayings by John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Ann Brashares

He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ann Brashares

Thứ Bảy, 3 tháng 5, 2014

Gary Moore, Playing With the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken Dreams

A friend is someone who walks into a room when everyone else is walking out.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Gary Moore, Playing With the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken Dreams

Thomas Jefferson

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Thomas Jefferson

Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Who would guess," he teased, "that I'd ever see you on a rooftop with straw in your hair?"

Kit giggled. "Are you saying I've turned into a crow?"

"Not exactly." His eyes were intensely blue with merriment. "I can still see the green feathers if I look hard enough. But they've done their best to make you into a sparrow, haven't they?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Jess C. Scott, Skins, Animal Stories

Never mind, said Hachiko each day. Here I wait, for my friend who’s late. I will stay, just to walk beside you for one more day.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jess C. Scott, Skins, Animal Stories

J.D. Robb, Promises in Death

There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay.

Life Quotes And Sayings by J.D. Robb, Promises in Death

Cecelia Ahern, A Place Called Here

He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if there was one man who had put his life on hold to wait for something or someone, it was him.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Cecelia Ahern, A Place Called Here

Orson Scott Card, Hart's Hope

Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Orson Scott Card, Hart's Hope

Marisa de los Santos, Falling Together

Soon, the two of them would leave this spot. . . walk into the house and into a whole changed world. . .

Life Quotes And Sayings by Marisa de los Santos, Falling Together

Jim Butcher, Changes

Da. This is going very well already."

Thomas barked out a laugh. "There are seven of us against the Red King and his thirteen most powerful nobles, and it's going well?"

Mouse sneezed.

"Eight," Thomas corrected himself. He rolled his eyes and said, "And the psycho death faerie makes it nine."

"It is like movie," Sanya said, nodding. "Dibs on Legolas."

"Are you kidding?" Thomas said. "I'm obviously Legolas. You're . . ." He squinted thoughtfully at Sanya and then at Martin. "Well. He's Boromir and you're clearly Aragorn."

"Martin is so dour, he is more like Gimli." Sanya pointed at Susan. "Her sword is much more like Aragorn's."

"Aragorn wishes he looked that good," countered Thomas.

"What about Karrin?" Sanya asked.

"What--for Gimli?" Thomas mused. "She is fairly--"

"Finish that sentence, Raith, and we throw down," said Murphy in a calm, level voice.

"Tough," Thomas said, his expression aggrieved. "I was going to say 'tough.' "

As the discussion went on--with Molly's sponsorship, Mouse was lobbying to claim Gimli on the basis of being the shortest, the stoutest, and the hairiest--

"Sanya," I said. "Who did I get cast as?"

"Sam," Sanya said.

I blinked at him. "Not . . . Oh, for crying out loud, it was perfectly obvious who I should have been."

Sanya shrugged. "It was no contest. They gave Gandalf to your godmother. You got Sam.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jim Butcher, Changes

Charles M. Schulz

Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Charles M. Schulz

Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary characters acquire in the reader's mind. [...] Whatever evolution this or that popular character has gone through between the book covers, his fate is fixed in our minds, and, similarly, we expect our friends to follow this or that logical and conventional pattern we have fixed for them. Thus X will never compose the immortal music that would clash with the second-rate symphonies he has accustomed us to. Y will never commit murder. Under no circumstances can Z ever betray us. We have it all arranged in our minds, and the less often we see a particular person, the more satisfying it is to check how obediently he conforms to our notion of him every time we hear of him. Any deviation in the fates we have ordained would strike us as not only anomalous but unethical. We could prefer not to have known at all our neighbor, the retired hot-dog stand operator, if it turns out he has just produced the greatest book of poetry his age has seen.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

Thứ Sáu, 2 tháng 5, 2014

Danka V., The Unchosen Life

A true friend is the one who knows
everything about you and still loves you. Eventually, people will forget the things you said or did, but the feelings
you woke up in them they will never forget!

Life Quotes And Sayings by Danka V., The Unchosen Life

Jean de La Fontaine

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jean de La Fontaine

John Green, Paper Towns

Ben, if you get pee in my brand-new car, I am going to cut your balls off."
Still peeing, Ben looks over at me smirking. "You´re gonna need a hell of a big knife, bro.

Life Quotes And Sayings by John Green, Paper Towns

Mona Hanie

A true friend is the one who treats you and gives you advices, exactly as if he is treating himself and giving advices to himself, so if you are a true friend never ever talk about your friends behind their backs, cause you must be sure that you are talking about yourself :)

Life Quotes And Sayings by Mona Hanie

Jean de La Bruyère

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jean de La Bruyère

Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent and full. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives, but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

Life Quotes And Sayings by Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

Chaim Potok, The Chosen

Reuven listen to me. The Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself. One is to acquire a teacher. Do you remember the other."
"Choose a friend," I said.
"Yes. You know what a friend is, Reuven? A Greek philosopher said that two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul."
I nodded.
"Reuven, if you can, make Danny Saunders your friend."
"I like him a lot, abba."
"No. Listen to me. I am not talking about only liking him. I am telling you to make him your friend and to let him make you his friend.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Chaim Potok, The Chosen

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

Hermione was screaming again: the sound went through Harry like physical pain.

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

Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

She turns her head, Bailey catches her eye, and she smiles at him. Not in the way that one smiles at a random member of the audience when one is in the middle of performing circus tricks with unusually talented kittens but in the way that one smiles when one recognizes someone they have not seen in some time.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.

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

Thứ Năm, 1 tháng 5, 2014

Terra Elan McVoy, After the Kiss

and it is hard to let go, to imagine alternatives, but you are bold with unknowing, you are ready to explore.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Terra Elan McVoy, After the Kiss

Henry David Thoreau

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Henry David Thoreau

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform, and only be more each other's, because we are more our own?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sarah Ockler, Fixing Delilah

In your entire life, you can probably count your true friends on one hand. Maybe even on one finger. Those are the friends you need to cherish, and I wouldn't trade one of them for a hundred of the other kind. I'd rather be completely alone than with a bunch of people who aren't real. People who are just passing time.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Sarah Ockler, Fixing Delilah

Sophie Kinsella, Can You Keep a Secret?

If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Sophie Kinsella, Can You Keep a Secret?

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

Severing our young and fragile friendship was a sad ordeal, but sadder still was the fact that this friend found it so difficult to respond to my immediate need, unlike a dreamed boy who always afforded me easy comfort. I couldn’t understand what was so hard about reaching out to hug someone. But judging by Gregory’s uncomfortable conduct I had to assume it was an honest trial.

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

Simone de Beauvoir

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion

Life Quotes And Sayings by Simone de Beauvoir

John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

I ain't got no people. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain't no good. They don't have no fun. After a long time they get mean. They get wantin' to fight all the time. . . 'Course Lennie's a God damn nuisance most of the time, but you get used to goin' around with a guy an' you can't get rid of him.

Life Quotes And Sayings by John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

Henri J.M. Nouwen

There is a twilight zone in our hearts that we ourselves cannot see. Even when we know quite a lot about ourselves-our gifts and weaknesses, our ambitions and aspirations, our motives and our drives-large parts of ourselves remain in the shadow of consciousness. This is a very good thing. We will always remain partially hidden to ourselves. Other people, especially those who love us, can often see our twilight zones better than we ourselves can. The way we are seen and understood by others is different from the way we see and understand ourselves. We will never fully know the significance of our presence in the lives of our friends. That's a grace, a grace that calls us not only to humility, but to a deep trust in those who love us. It is the twilight zones of our hearts where true friendships are born.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Henri J.M. Nouwen

C.S. Lewis

The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surprising result will follow. If in your working hours you make the work your end, you will presently find yourself all unawares inside the only circle in your profession that really matters. You will be one of the sound craftsmen, and other sound craftsmen will know it. This group of craftsmen will by no means coincide with the Inner Ring or the Important People or the People in the Know. It will not shape that professional policy or work up that professional influence which fights for the profession as a whole against the public: nor will it lead to those periodic scandals and crises which the Inner Ring produces. But it will do those things which that profession exists to do and will in the long run be responsible for all the respect which that profession in fact enjoys and which the speeches and advertisements cannot maintain. And if in your spare time you consort simply with the people you like, you will again find that you have come unawares to a real inside: that you are indeed snug and safe at the center of something which, seen from without, would look exactly like an Inner Ring. But the difference is that its secrecy is accidental, and its exclusiveness a by-product, and no one was led thither by the lure of the esoteric: for it is only four or five people who like one another meeting to do things that they like. This is friendship. Aristotle placed it among the virtues. It causes perhaps half of all the happiness in the world, and no Inner Ring can ever have it.

Life Quotes And Sayings by C.S. Lewis

Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics