Thứ Tư, 30 tháng 4, 2014

Nicholas Sparks

It all comes down to who's by your side.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Nicholas Sparks

James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

Life Quotes And Sayings by James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

Thứ Ba, 29 tháng 4, 2014

Charlotte Brontë, The Life of Charlotte Brontë

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Charlotte Brontë, The Life of Charlotte Brontë

Maya Angelou

I dreamt we walked together along the shore. We made satisfying small talk and laughed. This morning I found sand in my shoe and a seashell in my pocket. Was I only dreaming?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Maya Angelou

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1

The sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1

Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir

Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time I ever felt awkward about this precious idea, which seemed somehow to risk diminishment if it were uttered aloud.

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

Julie Kagawa, The Lost Prince

Care to join me, Goodfellow?”
“Oh, ice-boy. A moonlight stroll with you? Do you even have to ask?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Julie Kagawa, The Lost Prince

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

And he knew that at that moment, they understood each other perfectly, and when he told her what he was going to do now, she would not say ‘be careful’ or ‘don’t do it’, but she would accept his decision because she would not have expected anything less of him.

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

Brian Andreas

Your job is to focus on my personal happiness, she said, & I've got big plans, so break time is over.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Brian Andreas

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series

Thứ Hai, 28 tháng 4, 2014

Laura Fraser, An Italian Affair

It isn't such a bad thing to always know that someone on the other side of the world cares about you.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Laura Fraser, An Italian Affair

Samuel Johnson

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Samuel Johnson

Cathy Hopkins

There will always be people for and against you, and its pointless wasting time trying to win over some of the people who are against you. Spend time with people who are for you. Those realtionships are worth it.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Cathy Hopkins

Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

Brian Andreas

A few said they'd be horses. Most said they'd be some sort of cat. My friend said she'd like to come back as a porcupine. I don't like crowds, she said.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Brian Andreas

Ally Carter, Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ally Carter, Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

Its easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

Jane Austen, Persuasion

My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company."

"You are mistaken," said he gently, "that is not good company; that is the best. Good company requires only birth, education, and manners (...)

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jane Austen, Persuasion

Abraham Lincoln

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Abraham Lincoln

Shannon L. Alder

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Shannon L. Alder

Scott Dikkers, You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day

A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Scott Dikkers, You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese

My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!
And yet they seem alive and quivering
Against my tremulous hands which loose the string
And let them drop down on my knee to-night.
This said, -- he wished to have me in his sight
Once, as a friend: this fixed a day in spring
To come and touch my hand ... a simple thing,
Yet I wept for it! -- this, ... the paper's light ...
Said, Dear I love thee; and I sank and quailed
As if God's future thundered on my past.
This said, I am thine -- and so its ink has paled
With lying at my heart that beat too fast.
And this ... O Love, thy words have ill availed
If, what this said, I dared repeat at last!

Life Quotes And Sayings by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese

Chủ Nhật, 27 tháng 4, 2014

Bahá'u'lláh

Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Bahá'u'lláh

L.J. Smith, The Vampire Diaries: Blood Will Tell

Each of them had done their best. Matt was still his friend. For Meredith, maybe the day would come when she could look at him and not think “inhuman” — or at least not think it immediately and constantly. Maybe Bonnie, the moth, would be able to stay away from the unholy flame. Now, there was something to worry about. He could all too easily see Bonnie taking a walk on the very wild side with Damon. His brother had a soft spot for her already, she knew. But if either of them had a problem, he already knew what he had to do to find a plan for a solution.

Just look up.

Life Quotes And Sayings by L.J. Smith, The Vampire Diaries: Blood Will Tell

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.

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

Kristin Cast, Hunted

It's a little hard not to worry when my best friend keeps on dying.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Kristin Cast, Hunted

Johanna Lindsey, A Loving Scoundrel

What is a friend if not someone you feel close to, someone you like being with, someone you can confide in and share pleasure with.

-Jeremy Malory-

Life Quotes And Sayings by Johanna Lindsey, A Loving Scoundrel

Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

She was afraid that it was a moral issue, and that was one of his weaknesses. He was Salander’s friend. She knew her brother. She knew that he was loyal to the point of foolhardiness once he had made someone a friend, even if the friend was impossible and obviously flawed. She also the friend was impossible and obviously flawed. She also knew that he could accept any number of idiocies from his friends, but that there was a boundary and it could not be infringed. Where exactly this boundary was seemed to vary from one person to another, but she knew he had broken completely with people who had previously been close friends because they had done something that he regarded as beyond the pale. And he was inflexible. The break was for ever.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

E.M. Forster

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country

Life Quotes And Sayings by E.M. Forster

Nina LaCour

I never realized what a big deal that was. How amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head. You just think that things will stay the way they are. You never look up, in a moment that feels like every other moment in your life, and think, "Soon this will be over". But I understand more now. About the way life works.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Nina LaCour

Flavia Weedn

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same

Life Quotes And Sayings by Flavia Weedn

Ueda Akinari, Tales of Moonlight and Rain

In friendship, bond not with a shallow man.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ueda Akinari, Tales of Moonlight and Rain

Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

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

Thứ Bảy, 26 tháng 4, 2014

André Malraux

L'amitié, dit-il, ce n'est pas d'être avec ses amis quand ils ont raison, c'est être avec eux même quand ils ont tord.


Life Quotes And Sayings by André Malraux

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

Go on, have a pasty," said Harry, who had never had anything to share before or, indeed, anyone to share it with. It was a nice feeling, sitting there with Ron, eating their way through all Harry's pasties, cakes, and candies (the sandwiches lay forgotten).

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

Bella Pollen, Midnight Cactus

People aren't often asked to make life or death decisions. There are no causes to die for. You can go through life never knowing which of your friends would really come through for you

Life Quotes And Sayings by Bella Pollen, Midnight Cactus

Sophie Kinsella, Can You Keep a Secret?

A real relationship is two-way.

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

Agatha Christie, Murder is Easy

Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else."

"Oh! my dear Love, I know. You want reality. So do I. What's between us will last for ever because it's founded on reality.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Agatha Christie, Murder is Easy

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Kevin J. Anderson, Ruins

Scully,' [Mulder] said, his voice quiet and serious, 'with the... unorthodox explanations I often find when studying the evidence, I know you're always skeptical-but every time you're at least fair to me. You respect my opinion, even when you don't agree with it.' He looked at his hands. 'I don't know if I've ever told you, but I really appreciate that.'
She looked at him and smiled. 'You've told me, Mulder. Maybe not in words... but you've told me.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Kevin J. Anderson, Ruins

Ann Patchett, Truth and Beauty

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ann Patchett, Truth and Beauty

Patti Smith, Just Kids

We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Patti Smith, Just Kids

Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is… Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever. They were not perfect, but they were my friends.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

Justin Taylor

If you can't sublimate your fear of mortality into sex with your best friend, what's it there for?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Justin Taylor

Fred Rogers

Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Fred Rogers

Thứ Sáu, 25 tháng 4, 2014

Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.

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

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

But it does not seem that I can trust anyone,' said Frodo.
Sam looked at him unhappily. 'It all depends on what you want,' put in Merry. 'You can trust us to stick with you through thick and thin--to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours--closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo.

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

Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Fallowblade

True friendship is worth more than can be measured,
a quality forever to be treasured.
True friends will staunchly stand beside each other,
as loyally brother shieldeth brother,
remaining firm in spite of war and strife,
in poverty or sickness, throughout life.
True friendship doth endure while comrades age
from boy to youth, from warrior to sage.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Fallowblade

John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are. [But] I do pick you. We've been friends too long to pick, but if we could pick, I'd pick you.

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

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

Jimmy put in a word and told them that if I made it, I wouldn't be able to live with myself without paying them back. That I'd sooner die than owe anyone money for helping me.

Apparently Jimmy knew more about me at that point than I knew about myself.

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

Haruki Murakami

Quizás aun no te comprenda. Pero, con un poco de tiempo, llegaré a entenderte. Y no habrá nadie en el mundo que te comprenda mejor que yo.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Haruki Murakami

Neil Gaiman, A Study in Emerald

I have a feeling,’ he said, ‘I have a feeling that we were meant to be together. That we have fought the good fight, side by side, in the past or in the future, I do not know. I am a rational man, but I have learned the value of a good companion, and from the moment I clapped eyes on you, I knew I trusted you as well as I do myself. Yes, I want you with me.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Neil Gaiman, A Study in Emerald

Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

Are you out of your goddamn mind? You think we can take on two hundred soldiers? I know I am an extremely attractive man, J, but I am not Bruce Lee.”
“Who’s Bruce Lee?”
“Who’s Bruce Lee?” Kenji asks, horrified. “Oh my God. We can’t even be friends anymore.”
“Why? Was he a friend of yours?”
“You know what,” he says, “just stop. Just—I can’t even talk to you right now.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

Marc Wambolt, Poems from the Heart

I may not always be with you
But when we're far apart
Remember you will be with me
Right inside my heart

Life Quotes And Sayings by Marc Wambolt, Poems from the Heart

Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

My friends are everything without me but I am nothing without my friends.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

Harry S. Truman

You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!

Life Quotes And Sayings by Harry S. Truman

Sarah Orne Jewett

The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Sarah Orne Jewett

Thứ Năm, 24 tháng 4, 2014

Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows

Yes,” said Mamma, “this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it. We love people, and we say that we are going to do more for them than friendship, but it makes such fools of us that we do far less, indeed sometimes what we do could be mistaken for the work of hatred.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows

Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

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

Thomas Jefferson

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Thomas Jefferson

Charlotte Brontë, The Letters of Charlotte Brontë

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Charlotte Brontë, The Letters of Charlotte Brontë

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire... Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Seth Brown

True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Seth Brown

Emily Giffin, Heart of the Matter

It occurs to me that she is not unique--that all women compare lives. We are aware of whose husband works more, who helps more around the house, who makes more money, who is having more sex. We compare our children, taking note of who is sleeping through the night, eating their vegetables, minding their manners, getting into the right schools. We know who keeps the best house, throws the best parties, cooks the best meals, has the best tennis game. We know who among us is the smartest, has the fewest lines around her eyes, has the best figure--whether naturally or artificially. We are aware of who works full-time, who stays at home with the kids, who manages to do it all and make it look easy, who shops and lunches while the nanny does it all. We digest it all and then discuss with our friends. Comparing and then confiding; it is what women do.
The difference, I think, lies in why we do it. Are we doing it to gauge our own life and reassure ourselves that we fall within the realm of normal? Or are we being competitive, relishing others' shortcomings so that we can win, if only by default?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Emily Giffin, Heart of the Matter

Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns: A Novel

Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns: A Novel

Stephen Schwartz, Wicked [With CD (Audio)]

I'm through accepting limits
''cause someone says they're so
Some things I cannot change
But till I try, I'll never know!
Too long I've been afraid of
Losing love I guess I've lost
Well, if that's love
It comes at much too high a cost!

Life Quotes And Sayings by Stephen Schwartz, Wicked [With CD (Audio)]

E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

Life Quotes And Sayings by E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

There was just Mavis and me, but it never seemed lonely because we never stopped talking. I could have an argument, in earnest, about who was the best “Kid” in the Hall, without having to explain who they were. One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about. We never needed best friend gear because I guess with real friends you don’t have to make it official. It just is.

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

Chloe Rattray, Sacré Noir

People aren’t always what you want them to be. Sometimes they disappoint you or let you down, but you have to give them a chance first. You can’t just meet someone and expect them to be everything you’re looking for and then be angry when they’re not every hope and aspiration you projected onto them. It’s foolish to believe that someone will be what you imagine them to be. And sometimes, when you give them a chance, they turn out to be better than you imagined. Different, but better.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Chloe Rattray, Sacré Noir

Thứ Tư, 23 tháng 4, 2014

Michelle Franklin

All the friends in the world are in the fountain of a pen.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Michelle Franklin

Stephen Schwartz, Wicked: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical

Like a comet pulled from orbit,
As it passes a sun.
Like a stream that meets a boulder,
Halfway through the wood.
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you,
I have been changed for good

It well may be,
That we will never meet again,
In this lifetime.
So let me say before we part,
So much of me,
Is made of what I learned from you.
You'll be with me,
Like a handprint on my heart.
And now whatever way our stories end,
I know you have re-written mine,
By being my friend...

Like a ship blown from its mooring,
By a wind off the sea.
Like a seed dropped by a skybird,
In a distant wood.
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you,
Because I knew you,
I have been changed for good.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Stephen Schwartz, Wicked: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical

Christine E. Schulze, The Hero of 1000 Years

Suddenly, something fluttered down from the nest to rest at Chasmira's feet. She picked it up- A phoenix father.
It glistened in the sunlight, and tracing her fingers along its edges, she marveled at its soft and delicate touch.
Extending it to Aaron, she said quietly, "They say a phoenix feather is a symbol of everlasting friendship.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Christine E. Schulze, The Hero of 1000 Years

Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.

After losing my job, I felt the only options available to me were razors, cyanide, or a shot to the face, until Renaldo, being the good friend that he is, reminded me how to tie a noose.


Life Quotes And Sayings by Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.

Life Quotes And Sayings by William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Edith Wharton

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Edith Wharton

Richard Bach, Juan Salvador Gaviota

¡Si nuestra amistad depende de cosas como el espacio y el tiempo, entonces, cuando por fin superemos el espacio y el tiempo, habremos destruido nuestra propia hermandad! Pero supera el espacio, y nos quedará sólo un Aquí. Supera el tiempo, y nos quedará sólo un Ahora. Y entre el Aquí y el Ahora, ¿no crees que podremos volver a vernos un par de veces?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Richard Bach, Juan Salvador Gaviota

Carroll Bryant

I don't like to give up on people when they need someone not to give up on them.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Carroll Bryant

Julie Kagawa

Having second thoughts?” Puck’s voice was soft and dangerous, a far cry from his normal flippancy. “I thought we put this behind us for now.”

“Never,” I said, matching his stare. “I can’t ever take it back, Goodfellow. I’m still going to kill you. I swore to her I would.” Lighting flickered overhead, and thunder rumbled in the distance as we faced each other with narrowed eyes. “One day,” I said softly. “One day you’ll look up, and I’ll be there. That’s the only ending for us. Don’t ever forget.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Julie Kagawa

C.S. Lewis

Are not 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.

Life Quotes And Sayings by C.S. Lewis

Jennifer E. Smith, You Are Here

Somehow he'd become the one constant in this whole uneven chapter in her life, & the idea that could change was unsettling.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jennifer E. Smith, You Are Here

Snoop Dogg

It ain't no fun if the homies can't have none.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Snoop Dogg

Thứ Ba, 22 tháng 4, 2014

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

It made me shiver. And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn't try to quit being the kind of a boy I was and be better. So I kneeled down. But the words wouldn't come. Why wouldn't they? It warn't no use to try and hide it from Him. Nor from ME, neither. I knowed very well why they wouldn't come. It was because my heart warn't right; it was because I warn't square; it was because I was playing double. I was letting ON to give up sin, but away inside of me I was holding on to the biggest one of all. I was trying to make my mouth SAY I would do the right thing and the clean thing, and go and write to that nigger's owner and tell where he was; but deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie--I found that out.

So I was full of trouble, full as I could be; and didn't know what to do. At last I had an idea; and I says, I'll go and write the letter--and then see if I can pray. Why, it was astonishing, the way I felt as light as a feather right straight off, and my troubles all gone. So I got a piece of paper and a pencil, all glad and excited, and set down and wrote:

Miss Watson, your runaway nigger Jim is down here two mile below Pikesville, and Mr. Phelps has got him and he will give him up for the reward if you send.

HUCK FINN.

I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. But I didn't do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking--thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell. And went on thinking. And got to thinking over our trip down the river; and I see Jim before me all the time: in the day and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a-floating along, talking and singing and laughing. But somehow I couldn't seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only the other kind. I'd see him standing my watch on top of his'n, 'stead of calling me, so I could go on sleeping; and see him how glad he was when I come back out of the fog; and when I come to him again in the swamp, up there where the feud was; and such-like times; and would always call me honey, and pet me and do everything he could think of for me, and how good he always was; and at last I struck the time I saved him by telling the men we had small-pox aboard, and he was so grateful, and said I was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the ONLY one he's got now; and then I happened to look around and see that paper.

It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself:

"All right, then, I'll GO to hell"--and tore it up.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Nick Hornby

We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we were different and it broke both of our hearts.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Nick Hornby

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

For a permanent solution to easing tension and soothe the rough waters of the world that cause people to go to drugs, drinking, gambling, pornography, overeating, or anything that will give them some temporary relief, you can’t beat the support and encouragement of a friend.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jonathan Anthony Burkett

E.W. Howe

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

Life Quotes And Sayings by E.W. Howe

Johannes Müller

Friede – wie Freundschaft – setzt Achtung voraus.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Johannes Müller

Walter Winchell

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Walter Winchell

Charles Caleb Colton

True friendhip is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Charles Caleb Colton

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

Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.

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

Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

Her eyes take on that suspicious, wounded look girls get when they know they've fallen off the top rung of friendship and someone else has passed them, but they don't know when or how the change took place.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

Robin Jones Gunn, Sisterchicks Say Ooh La La!

I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Robin Jones Gunn, Sisterchicks Say Ooh La La!

Kay Ryan

Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/
as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant since/the oldest maps.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Kay Ryan

Frances Ward Weller

A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself

Life Quotes And Sayings by Frances Ward Weller

Thứ Hai, 21 tháng 4, 2014

David Nicholls, One Day

Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead? It was unrealistic to expect a friendship to last forever…

Life Quotes And Sayings by David Nicholls, One Day

C.J. Langenhoven

Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.

Life Quotes And Sayings by C.J. Langenhoven

Coco J. Ginger

He brought out the worst in me, and was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Coco J. Ginger

Jennifer Wilson

A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends.
Real friends are there to visit you not your house!

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jennifer Wilson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Leo Buscaglia

A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Leo Buscaglia

Leonard Cohen, Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs

And I'll dance with you in Vienna,
I'll be wearing a river's disguise.
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder
my mouth on the dew of your thighs.
And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,
with the photographs there and the moss.
And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty,
my cheap violin and my cross.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Leonard Cohen, Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs

Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death

Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, move me more deeply than all the rest. A couple of lines or eight pages, a Middle Eastern stamp or a suburban postmark . . . I hoard all these letters like treasure. One day I hope to fasten them end to end in a half-mile streamer, to float in the wind like a banner raised to the glory of friendship.
It will keep the vultures at bay.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death

Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis

Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis

Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

Sophie Kinsella, Can You Keep a Secret?

Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.

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

Paulo Coelho

Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life

Life Quotes And Sayings by Paulo Coelho

Chủ Nhật, 20 tháng 4, 2014

Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

L.A. Meyer, Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy

You've got to think of the fine times you had with your mate, not the moment of his perishin'. Every tear you shed now only wets his windin' sheet and disturbs his rest

Life Quotes And Sayings by L.A. Meyer, Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Thứ Bảy, 19 tháng 4, 2014

Lisa Ann Sandell, A Map of the Known World

I wish I could say we all lived happily ever after. I can't. But I can say we lived. Our love for Nate lives, and he's left us this piece of himself in his art; it was his gift to us. We know him through his art, and I can take comfort in that.

I guess the thing about high school is, it's the moment when you start to cross from a being a kid to being an adult, and this journey to know yourself begins. Nate's journey ended to early, and I thought I had to run away to some far-off land to start mine. But, for now, it seems to me that I have enough to explore right here. There's a whole continent to discover in myself, and I know that it's love - love for my parents, my friends, my brother, and my art - that will guide me. Love will be my map.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Lisa Ann Sandell, A Map of the Known World

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Anthony Powell, The Kindly Ones

One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Anthony Powell, The Kindly Ones

John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose.

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

David Rakoff

Is there some lesson on how to be friends?
I think what it means is that central to living
a life that is good is a life that's forgiving.
We're creatures of contact regardless of whether
we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together.
Though it may spell destruction, we still ask for more--
since it beats staying dry but so lonely on shore.
So we make ourselves open while knowing full well
it's essentially saying "please, come pierce my shell.

Life Quotes And Sayings by David Rakoff

M.T. Anderson, Whales on Stilts: M. T. Anderson's Thrilling Tales

There are times when friendship feels like running down a hill together as fast as you can, jumping over things, spinning around, and you don't care where you're going, and you don't care where you've come from, because all that matters is speed, and the hands holding your hands.

Life Quotes And Sayings by M.T. Anderson, Whales on Stilts: M. T. Anderson's Thrilling Tales

Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia

By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.'
'I shall be delighted.'
'You don't mind breaking the law?'
'Not in the least.'
'Nor running a chance of arrest?'
'Not in a good cause.'
'Oh, the cause is excellent!'
'Then I am your man.'
'I was sure that I might rely on you.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia

Santosh Kalwar

Friendship is selfless love, care, respect, and honor not a profitable opportunity.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Santosh Kalwar

Thứ Sáu, 18 tháng 4, 2014

Thomas F. Shubnell

You can't overdose on friends, only enemies.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Thomas F. Shubnell

Nina LaCour, Hold Still

You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Nina LaCour, Hold Still

Kathryn Stockett, The Help

That's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Kathryn Stockett, The Help

Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl

When you get tired of worrying and mourning your horse and trying not to be afraid, tell me and I'll do it for you a while so you can shut your eyes and sleep peaceful.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl

Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind

The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers...of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact, this includes only a few, the true friends, as Plato was to Aristotle at the very moment they were disagreeing about the nature of the good...They were absolutely one soul as they looked at the problem. This, according to Plato, is the only real friendship, the only real common good. It is here that the contact people so desperately seek is to be found...This is the meaning of the riddle of the improbable philosopher-kings. They have a true community that is exemplary for all other communities.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind

L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.

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

John Marsden, Circle of Flight

The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.

Life Quotes And Sayings by John Marsden, Circle of Flight

Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

John Tibbetts

To know a person in his home is not to know him at all: to meet him on a country road with only his baggage is to at last contact the core, the inner cell of his personality.

Life Quotes And Sayings by John Tibbetts

Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno

You, of all people, deserve a happy ending. Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter. You aren't cold. You've just retreated a little and been shy, and that's okay. If I were a fairy godmother, I would give you your heart's desire in an istant. And I would wipe away your tears and tell you not to cry.

-Rachel to Julia

Life Quotes And Sayings by Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno

Markelle Grabo, The Spell Master

I'm scared, all right?" I said. I could feel my stomach churn as my gaze rested on the wooden trunk.
Nathan turned my chin, looking at me with an expression of utter sincerity. "You don't have to be. I'm here.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Markelle Grabo, The Spell Master

J.R. Ward, Lover Eternal

You're getting into some kind of shape, cop."
Aw, come on, now." Butch grinned. "Don't let that shower we took go to your head."
Rhage fired a towel at the male. "Just pointing out your beer gut's gone."
It was a Scotch pot. And I don't miss it.

Life Quotes And Sayings by J.R. Ward, Lover Eternal

Thứ Năm, 17 tháng 4, 2014

Thomas Carlyle

My books are friends that never fail me."

(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March 1817)

Life Quotes And Sayings by Thomas Carlyle

Nikki Giovanni

the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Nikki Giovanni

Jeremy Aldana

If I were not to put my arms out; would I have not caught you when you fell

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jeremy Aldana

Stephen Cosgrove, Gnome from Nome

So when you're cold
From the inside out
And don't know what to do,
Remember love and friendship,
And warmth will come to you.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Stephen Cosgrove, Gnome from Nome

Emily Giffin

As everyone applauds and sips champagne, I smile back at Rachel, thinking she got it just right. Love and friendship. They are what makes us who we are and what can change us, if we let them.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Emily Giffin

Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo

Just because I've gone and snagged myself a hot boyfriend doesn't mean I'm going to leave my bestfriend high and dry.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo

Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.

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

Julia Golding, Den of Thieves

Sorry Johnny."
"Sorry for what "
"For shouting at you. It's just that when I think about the future I keep panicking. It's like falling from the top of the stairs in the dark not knowing where I'll end up."
He put his arm around my shoulders. "I understand. Life is precarious for most of us but more so for you. What you forget is what most of your friends see in you."
"What's that "
"The ability to beat the odds..."
"And fall on my feet "
He nodded.
"I just hope that lasts."
"It will Catkin it will. It wouldn't dare fail you.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Julia Golding, Den of Thieves

Ilona Andrews, Magic Slays

Andrea raised her hand. “This is the hand that slapped Aunt B.”
“Maybe you should have it gold-plated.”
“Here, you can touch it, since you’re my best friend.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ilona Andrews, Magic Slays

Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

Benjamin Franklin

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Benjamin Franklin

Thứ Tư, 16 tháng 4, 2014

David Nicholls, One Day

I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.'
'Treated like what?'
She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.

Life Quotes And Sayings by David Nicholls, One Day

Henry David Thoreau

the language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Henry David Thoreau

Kate Christensen, The Astral

Friendship is a strange animal. It only thrives in voluntary enjoyment of each other's company, in the pleasure of nonobligatory connection. I repeat: You owe me nothing.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Kate Christensen, The Astral

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

Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their arrival seemed so accidental and contingent. Now your life is unimaginable without them. Similarly, your identity and vision are composed of a certain constellation of ideas and feelings that surfaced from the depths of the distance within you. To lose these now would be to lose yourself.

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

David Nicholls, One Day

No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

Life Quotes And Sayings by David Nicholls, One Day

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is The Night

New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

Life Quotes And Sayings by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is The Night

Mike Norton, Just Another War Story

The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful.

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

Nancy Werlin, Impossible

It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I've been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don't understand, they still understand.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Nancy Werlin, Impossible

Rosie Thomas, Iris And Ruby

Like so many plain cups on the shelves. You can reach for them, use them without thinking. Most of them don't matter. Sometimes you lose your grip on one of them and it falls and smashes to piece, and you shrug and say to yourself, what a pity. Then you reach for the cup that you use every day, one that you love and use so often that as you stretch out your hand it is already making the shape that fits its curve. You are certain that yesterday it was in its proper place, but now there is nothing. Just air. You have lost something that was so familiar, so much a part of your life that you were not even looking for it. Just expecting it to be there, as always.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Rosie Thomas, Iris And Ruby

Jim Morrison

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jim Morrison

Juliet Marillier, Cybele's Secret

If a man truly loves, he gives no heed to what others may think. His heart has no room for that, for it is filled to the brim with the unutterable truth of his feelings.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Juliet Marillier, Cybele's Secret

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

In friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years' difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the choice of one university instead of another...the accident of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting--any of these chances might have kept us apart. But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking no chances. A secret master of ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you," can truly say to every group of Christian friends, "Ye have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another." The friendship is not a reward for our discriminating and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

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

Thứ Ba, 15 tháng 4, 2014

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.

Life Quotes And Sayings by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.

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

Mardy Grothe

Here's champagne for our real friends, and real pain for our sham friends.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Mardy Grothe

Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense

Jody Gehrman, Babe in Boyland

I despise the rituals of fake friendship. I wish we could just claw each other's eyes out and call it a day; instead we put on huge radiant smiles and spout compliments until our teeth hurt from the saccharine sweetness of it all.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jody Gehrman, Babe in Boyland

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as takes place when you leave them alone. In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly coextensive with the several consciousnesses there present. No partialities of friend to friend, no fondnesses of brother to sister, of wife to husband, are there pertinent, but quite otherwise. Only he may then speak who can sail on the common thought of the party, and not poorly limited to his own. Now this convention, which good sense demands, destroys the high freedom of great conversation, which requires an absolute running of two souls into one.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

That's right. You'll like Owl. He flew past a day or two ago and noticed me. He didn't actually say anything, mind you, but he knew it was me. Very friendly of him. Encouraging."

Pooh and Piglet shuffled about a little and said, "Well, good-bye, Eeyore" as lingeringly as they could, but they had a long way to go, and wanted to be getting on.

"Good-bye," said Eeyore. "Mind you don't get blown away, little Piglet. You'd be missed. People would say `Where's little Piglet been blown to?' -- really wanting to know. Well, good-bye. And thank you for happening to pass me.

Life Quotes And Sayings by A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

I have known her longer, my smile said. True, you have been inside the circle of her arms, tasted her mouth, felt the warmth of her, and that is something I have never had. But there is a part of her that is only for me. You cannot touch it, no matter how hard you might try. And after she has left you I will still be here, making her laugh. My light shining in her. I will still be here long after she has forgotten your name.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

Toni Morrison, Beloved

She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Toni Morrison, Beloved

A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.

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

Thứ Hai, 14 tháng 4, 2014

Santosh Kalwar

If you claim to be a real friend then be real in your soul. If you claim to be fake then be an enemy instead.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Santosh Kalwar

Adam S. McHugh

Because introverts are typically good listeners and, at least, have the appearance of calmness, we are attractive to emotionally needy people. Introverts, gratified that other people are initiating with them, can easily get caught in these exhausting and unsatisfying relationships.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Adam S. McHugh

Louise Bernikow

Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other belong to themselves.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Louise Bernikow

Christopher Poindexter

I think we are and will always
be lonely people in a lonely
world under lonely stars.
We can never starve our loneliness.
We can only hope that by the
company of others,
it doesn't devour us.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Christopher Poindexter

Rosamund Lupton, Sister

For a moment amongst the crowd, I saw you. I've since found out it's common for people separated from someone they love to keep seeing that loved one amongst strangers; something to do with recognition units in our brain being too heated and too easily triggered. This cruel trick of the mind lasted only a few moments, but was long enough to feel with physical force how much I needed you.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Rosamund Lupton, Sister

Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell

Everything about her has to do with me.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell

Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride

Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.
-Maggie

Life Quotes And Sayings by Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

When you part from your friend,
you grieve not;

For that which you love most in him
may be clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

Nicole Yatsonsky

Your truest friends are the ones who will stand by you in your darkest moments--because they're willing to brave the shadows with you--and in your greatest moments--because they're not afraid to let you shine.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Nicole Yatsonsky

Kathleen Kent, The Heretic's Daughter

Sharing secrets is the way in which women tie themselves together, for it reveals complicity and trust. Holding secrets shows trustworthiness and a sort of quite defiance. It is a natural thing for a female to hold secrets within her breast until the time is ripe to release them. Does it not follow the way in which her body is formed? A woman is made with that dark and mysterious recess that can grow a child safely until the child is ready to come out onto the birthing bed. And like birthing, secrets present themselves in many ways. some slip easily into the world, others must be torn out, if the body is unwilling.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Kathleen Kent, The Heretic's Daughter

Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Charles Caleb Colton

Chủ Nhật, 13 tháng 4, 2014

Samuel McChord Crothers

In the consciousness that another mind reflects your thought, you find the keenest satisfaction. Here is the high office of a friend, and in these high experiences is the point of attachment.--

Life Quotes And Sayings by Samuel McChord Crothers

Laura Pritchett, Sky Bridge: A Novel

Because the difference between a friend and a real friend is that you and the real friend come from the same territory, of the same place deep inside you, and that means you see the world in the same kind of way. You know each other even before you do.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Laura Pritchett, Sky Bridge: A Novel

Nikki Sixx, This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography, And Life Through The Distorted Lens Of Nikki Sixx

Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Nikki Sixx, This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography, And Life Through The Distorted Lens Of Nikki Sixx

Kurt Cobain

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Kurt Cobain

Stephen Richards

Each new friend gives rise to the possibility of anything!

Life Quotes And Sayings by Stephen Richards

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?

Seek him always with hours to live.

For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.

And in th sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Francesca Lia Block, Girl Goddess #9: Nine Stories

L.A. kills people.' Jacaranda said. 'You're lucky you're leaving. You'll be able to write.'
She looked paler, going through another depression, smoking in bed in her lilac room. The walls were the color of her veins. She was getting too thin, even for the modeling. . .Jacaranda died last winter when the flowering trees were bare. You couldn't even tell which ones once cried the purple blossoms she named herself after.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Francesca Lia Block, Girl Goddess #9: Nine Stories

Byron Katie

It's not your job to like me - it's mine

Life Quotes And Sayings by Byron Katie

Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Friends are a strange, volatile, contradictory, yet sticky phenomenon. They are made, crafted, shaped, molded, created by focused effort and intent. And yet, true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.

Best friends are formed by time.

Everyone is someone's friend, even when they think they are all alone.

If the friendship is not working, your heart will know. It's when you start being less than perfectly honest and perfectly earnest in your dealings. And it's when the things you do together no longer feel right.

However, sometimes it takes more effort to make it work after all.

Stick around long enough to become someone's best friend.

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

E.B. White, Charlotte's Web

I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty—everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?

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

Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

I have two friends, Steve and Martin. But I'd happily replace both for the friendship of Steve Martin.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or subordinate. Not among Friends. It is an affair of disentangled, or stripped, minds. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

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

Thứ Bảy, 12 tháng 4, 2014

Dean Koontz

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Dean Koontz

Sarah Mayberry, Anything for You

New hair, new clothes-the classic relationship break-up makeover," Jake said.
Delaney stared at him for a beat. In a way, he was right. She was breaking up with Sam. He just didn't know it.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Sarah Mayberry, Anything for You

Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel

Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.

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

Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

Bridget Davis

I hope we'll be friends forever, together we'll always be. I don't think you understand just how much you mean to me. And one day when we part our ways, we'll think back to the past and think about how happy we are 'cause our friendship will always last.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Bridget Davis

Jane Austen, Emma

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jane Austen, Emma

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

His hand closed automatically around the fake Horcrux but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching ahead for himself, in spite of the final meeting with Voldemort he knew must come whether in a month in a year or in ten, he felt his heart lift at the thought that there was still one last golden day of peace left to enjoy with Ron and Hermione.

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

Edward M. Hallowell, Dare to Forgive: The Power of Letting Go & Moving on

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage." ~Samuel Johnson

Life Quotes And Sayings by Edward M. Hallowell, Dare to Forgive: The Power of Letting Go & Moving on

Ali

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ali

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

I feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if I couldn't be I — as if I must have changed into somebody else and couldn't get used to it. It gives me a horrible lonely, dazed, helpless feeling. It's good to see you again — it seems as if you were a sort of anchor for my drifting soul.

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

Kate Hudson

No matter how far you take it with your friends, whether you're fighting with them or you hate them for two months, you just really need them, because they're the ones who teach you the most about yourself.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Kate Hudson

Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

If your heart tends to force friends to do as you say,
seed of discord is being planted in your relationship.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

Thứ Sáu, 11 tháng 4, 2014

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

.. a friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself..

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

Leila Howland, Nantucket Blue

Without a best friend to tell stories to, it almost didn't matter if they even happened.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Leila Howland, Nantucket Blue

Dorothy Parker

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Dorothy Parker

Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, A Life for a Life

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, A Life for a Life

Darren Shan, Lord Loss

But you're like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Darren Shan, Lord Loss

J.R. Ward, Lover Revealed

You're such a pain in the ass. (Butch)
Said the SIG to the Glock. (V)

Life Quotes And Sayings by J.R. Ward, Lover Revealed

Emily Wing Smith, Back When You Were Easier to Love

I hate it when people say they’re trying to be your friend. You shouldn’t have to try to be somebody’s friend. Either you like someone or you don’t. Either you want them as a friend or not. Making friends isn’t like trying for the lead in the school play.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Emily Wing Smith, Back When You Were Easier to Love

Frank Crane

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Frank Crane

Sylvia Massara

Unconditional love is the greatest gift of all" ~ The Soul Bearers, by Sylvia Massara

Life Quotes And Sayings by Sylvia Massara

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

Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic. Your sense of each other darkens and your presence is sore. If you can come through this time, it can purify with your love, and falsity and need will fall away. It will bring you onto new ground where affection can grow again.

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

Thứ Năm, 10 tháng 4, 2014

Epicurus

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Epicurus

Aristotle

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Aristotle

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Nicole Richie

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it....

Life Quotes And Sayings by Nicole Richie

Thứ Tư, 9 tháng 4, 2014

Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

Celebrate the people in your life who are there because they love you for no other reason than because you are YOU.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

Life Quotes And Sayings by C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

Larry Duberstein, The Twoweeks

This is what we do. Not so much argue as joust, in jest. We can't stop pushing and pulling the taffy of words and concepts.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Larry Duberstein, The Twoweeks

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

Life Quotes And Sayings by John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Kody Keplinger, The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend

I was the Duff. And that was a good thing. Because anyone who didn't feel like the Duff must not have friends. Every girl feels unattractive sometimes. Why had it taken me so long to figure that out? Why had I been stressing over that dumb word for so long when it was so simple? I should be proud to be the Duff. Proud to have great friends who, in their minds, were my Duffs.

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

David Nicholls, One Day

Can I say something?'
'Go on'
'I'm a little drunk'
'Me too. That's okay.'
'Just....I missed you, you know.'
'I missed you too.'
'But so, so much, Dexter. There were so many things I wanted to talk to you about, and you weren't there-'
'same here.'
'I tell you what it is. It's.....When I didn't see you, I thought about you every day, I mean EVERY DAY in some way or another-'
'same here.'
'-Even if it was just "I wish Dexter could see this" or "Where's Dexter now?" or "Christ that Dexter, what an idiot", you know what I mean, and seeing you today, well, I thought I'd got you back - my BEST friend. And now all this, the wedding, the baby- I'm so happy for you, Dex, but it feels like I've lost you again.'-

-'You know what happens you have a family, your responsibilities change, you lose touch with people'
'It won't be like that, I promise.'
'Do you?'
'Absolutely'
'You swear? No more disappearing?'
'I won't if you won't.'
Their lips touched now, mouths pursed tight, their eyes open, both of them stock still. The moment held, a kind of glorious confusion.

Life Quotes And Sayings by David Nicholls, One Day

Gregory of Nyssa

and the creation, in the world and above the world, that once was at variance with itself, is knit together in friendship: and we ... are made to join in the angels' song, offering the worship of their praise.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Gregory of Nyssa

Cicero

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief

Life Quotes And Sayings by Cicero

Thứ Ba, 8 tháng 4, 2014

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is spiritual and therefore faces a subtler enemy, it must, even more wholeheartedly than they, invoke the divine protection if it hopes to remain sweet. For consider how narrow its true path is. Is must not become what the people call a "mutual admiration society"; yet if it is not full of mutual admiration, of Appreciative love, it is not Friendship at all.

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

Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts

Girls will get together just to get together. Guys need an activity as an excuse. Otherwise it’s too homo for them to handle.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts

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

It's and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.

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

Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Marian Anderson

Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Marian Anderson

Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

Life Quotes And Sayings by Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems

Ann Brashares, Girls In Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ann Brashares, Girls In Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

Arlene Francis

Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Arlene Francis

Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.

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

Timothy Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Timothy Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Thứ Hai, 7 tháng 4, 2014

Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

What if someone picks on me?" I asked
Then I'll pick on them".
What if someone picks my nose?" I asked.
The I'll pick your nose, too" Rowdy said.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

Sounds like the start of a beautiful friendship, Leonard. It really does.” “Here’s looking at you, kid.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

Nancy J. Cavanaugh, This Journal Belongs to Ratchet

A Friend
Someone
You're happy to see,
Who's happy to see you.
Someone
You like for who they are
Not just for what they can do for you.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Nancy J. Cavanaugh, This Journal Belongs to Ratchet

Robert Louis Stevenson, Lay Morals

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Robert Louis Stevenson, Lay Morals

Waqar Ahmed

Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks

Life Quotes And Sayings by Waqar Ahmed

Millie Huang

By chance we met, by choice we become friend

Life Quotes And Sayings by Millie Huang

Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Stephen Schwartz

I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led to those who help us most to grow
If we let them and we help them in return.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Stephen Schwartz

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

We two make banquets of the plainest fare
In every cup we find the thrill of pleasure...
For us life always moves with lilting measure
We two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

Chủ Nhật, 6 tháng 4, 2014

H. Jackson Brown Jr., Complete Lifes Little Instruction Bk Leather Bound

#1425: When you really like someone, tell them. Sometimes you only get one chance.

Life Quotes And Sayings by H. Jackson Brown Jr., Complete Lifes Little Instruction Bk Leather Bound

Brian Andreas, Traveling Light: Stories & Drawings for a Quiet Mind

You may not remember the time you let me go first.
Or the time you dropped back to tell me it wasn't that far to go.
Or the time you waited at the crossroads for me to catch up.
You may not remember any of those, but I do and this is what I have to say to you:

Today, no matter what it takes,
we ride home together.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Brian Andreas, Traveling Light: Stories & Drawings for a Quiet Mind

David Levithan, Love Is the Higher Law

There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings.

Life Quotes And Sayings by David Levithan, Love Is the Higher Law

Plutarch

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Plutarch

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend," no Friendship can arise - though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

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

Lois Wyse

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Lois Wyse

Louis Sachar, Holes

The bark on the tree was just a little softer.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Louis Sachar, Holes

Tennessee Williams, Memoirs

Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Tennessee Williams, Memoirs

Jessica Verday, The Hollow

They said she killed herself.Everyone was saying It. What started out as a rumor, quietly whispered among small gatherings of polite people, quickly grew into something that was openly discussed in a large gatherings of impolite people. I was so sick of hearing them talk about It. They questioned me. Over and over again, trying to find out If i knew what happened. But my answers didn't change. Yet It never failed-someone else would ask, as if one day my reply would suddenly be different. I didn't know, but i should have...and I've been haunted ever since.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jessica Verday, The Hollow

Bernard Meltzer

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Bernard Meltzer

Thứ Bảy, 5 tháng 4, 2014

Stephen Richards

True friendship never questions what it costs you.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Stephen Richards

Albert Einstein

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Albert Einstein

David Gemmell, Shield of Thunder

I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for without them we are no more than beasts roaming the land.

Life Quotes And Sayings by David Gemmell, Shield of Thunder

George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

Life Quotes And Sayings by George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

Beth Hoffman, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Beth Hoffman, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

Jim Butcher, White Night

There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jim Butcher, White Night

Stevie Smith, Novel on Yellow Paper

My friendships, they are a very strong part of my life, they are as light as gossamer but also they are as strong as steel. And I cannot throw them off, nor altogether do with them or without them. And I love them at the point where they say: It is nice to see you again. And I love them too at the point when they say: Good-bye, come again soon. The rhythm of friendship is a very good rhythm.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Stevie Smith, Novel on Yellow Paper

Jane Austen

Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jane Austen

William Shakespeare

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

Life Quotes And Sayings by William Shakespeare

Ernst Jünger, The Glass Bees

I came to realize that one single human being, comprehended in his depth, who gives generously from the treasures of his heart, bestows on us more riches than Caesar or Alexander could ever conquer. Here is our kingdom, the best of monarchies, the best republic. Here is our garden, our happiness.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ernst Jünger, The Glass Bees

Thứ Sáu, 4 tháng 4, 2014

Mark Twain

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Mark Twain

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

In love there are no friends everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

How do you bear it?" Finnick looks at me in disbelief. "I don't, Katniss! Obviously, I don't. I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking up." Something in my expression stops him. "Better not give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

Kahlil Gibran, The Collected Works

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Kahlil Gibran, The Collected Works

Anton Chekhov

A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Anton Chekhov

R.J. Palacio, Wonder

Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.

Life Quotes And Sayings by R.J. Palacio, Wonder

Cecily von Ziegesar, I Will Always Love You

Nate stared, slack-jawed as the cab merged with the traffic and became impossible to spot. That was it.
They chose each other.
Just then, the dark sky lit up with fireworks. A cab sailing the street honked in celebration . In the night air , Nate thought he could hear Serena and Blairs' laughter, though he knew that was impossible; they were too far away by now.
But as we know, in this city anything is possible

Life Quotes And Sayings by Cecily von Ziegesar, I Will Always Love You

W. Somerset Maugham

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

Life Quotes And Sayings by W. Somerset Maugham

Heather Hepler, Love? Maybe

Not my finest hour," he says, shaking his head.
"You realize you did it for no reason," I say. I tell him about talking to my dad and explain that I was crying because of that.
"That information would have been useful BEFORE I shoved him in the pool.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Heather Hepler, Love? Maybe

Jess C. Scott

A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jess C. Scott

Benjamin J. Carey, Barefoot in November

At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Benjamin J. Carey, Barefoot in November

Thứ Năm, 3 tháng 4, 2014

Kristin Cashore, Graceling

Skye kissed her forehead. "You saved my life."
Katsa smiled. "You Lienid are very outward in your affection."
"I'm going to name my firstborn child after you."
Katsa laughed at that. "For the child's sake, wait for a girl. Or even better, wait until all your children are older and give my name to whichever is the most troublesome and obstinate."
Skye burst into laughter and hugged her, and Katsa returned his embrace. And realized that quite without her intending it, her guarded heart had made another friend.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Kristin Cashore, Graceling

David Nicholls, One Day

Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will.' Her lips touched his cheek. 'I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.

Life Quotes And Sayings by David Nicholls, One Day

Dee, Perahu Kertas

Akan ada satu saat kamu bertanya: pergi ke mana inspirasiku? Tiba-tiba kamu merasa ditinggal pergi. Hanya bisa diam, tidak lagi berkarya. Kering. Tetapi tidak selalu itu berarti kamu harus mencari objek atau sumber inspirasi baru. Sama seperti jodoh, Nan. Kalau punya masalah,tidak berarti harus cari pacar baru kan? Tapi rasa cinta kamu yang harus diperbarui.Cinta bisa tumbuh sendiri,tetapi bukan jaminan bakal langgeng selamanya,apalagi kalau tidak dipelihara. Mengerti kamu?"

-Nasihat Poyan pada Keenan suatu hari

Life Quotes And Sayings by Dee, Perahu Kertas

Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

And then he says something like this ... "I would die for you. But I won't live for you." Something like that. I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people.

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

Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally

Harry Burns: You realize of course that we could never be friends.
Sally Albright: Why not?
Harry Burns: What I'm saying is - and this is not a come-on in any way, shape or form - is that men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way.
Sally Albright: That's not true. I have a number of men friends and there is no sex involved.
Harry Burns: No you don't.
Sally Albright: Yes I do.
Harry Burns: No you don't.
Sally Albright: Yes I do.
Harry Burns: You only think you do.
Sally Albright: You say I'm having sex with these men without my knowledge?
Harry Burns: No, what I'm saying is they all WANT to have sex with you.
Sally Albright: They do not.
Harry Burns: Do too.
Sally Albright: They do not.
Harry Burns: Do too.
Sally Albright: How do you know?
Harry Burns: Because no man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her.
Sally Albright: So, you're saying that a man can be friends with a woman he finds unattractive?
Harry Burns: No. You pretty much want to nail 'em too.
Sally Albright: What if THEY don't want to have sex with YOU?
Harry Burns: Doesn't matter because the sex thing is already out there so the friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.
Sally Albright: Well, I guess we're not going to be friends then.
Harry Burns: I guess not.
Sally Albright: That's too bad. You were the only person I knew in New York.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally

J.M. Darhower, Sempre

Colpo di fulmine. The thunderbolt, as Italians call it. When love strikes someone like lightning, so powerful and intense it can’t be denied. It’s beautiful and messy,
cracking a chest open and spilling their soul out for the world to see. It turns a person inside out, and there’s no going back from it. Once the thunderbolt hits, your life is
irrevocably changed.

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

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

At that moment there was a knock on the door, and Sam came in. He ran to Frodo and took his left hand, awkwardly and shyly. He stroked it gently and then he blushed and turned hastily away.

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

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

I want to be the kind of person that kind people like and want to be like.

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

Thứ Tư, 2 tháng 4, 2014

Cheyenne McCray, Demons Not Included

I could picture how Caprice was before we lost her. Dark hair, beautiful smile, intelligent hazel eyes, quick wit.
Now gone.
Just gone.
Like a chessboard where suddenly one of the knights disappeared. A blank spot on the board of life that could never truly be replaced because no two things were alike, no two beings alike.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Cheyenne McCray, Demons Not Included

Coco J. Ginger

Sometimes you want to say, “I love you, but…”
Yet the “but” takes away the ‘I love you’. In love their are no ‘buts’ or ‘if’s’ or ‘when’. It’s just there, and always. No beginning, no end. It’s the condition-less state of the heart. Not a feeling that comes and goes at the whim of the emotions. It is there in our heart, a part of our heart…eventually grafting itself into each limb and cell of our bodies. Love changes our brain, the way we move and talk. Love lives in our spirit and graces us with its presence each day, until death.

To say “I love you, but….” is to say, “I did not love you at all”.

I say this to you now: I love you, with no beginning, no end. I love you as you have become an extra necessary organ in my body. I love you as only a girl could love a boy. Without fear. Without expectations. Wanting nothing in return, except that you allow me to keep you here in my heart, that I may always know your strength, your eyes, and your spirit that gave me freedom and let me fly.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Coco J. Ginger

C.S. Lewis

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too?

Life Quotes And Sayings by C.S. Lewis

Jeremy Aldana

Honesty is a fine foundation from which to build upon; for if one was to really know what another thinks and how they feel…they would surely treat each other differently

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jeremy Aldana

Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel

V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.

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

Richelle Mead, The Golden Lily

But what are loyalty and caring really worth?"
"To me? Everything.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Richelle Mead, The Golden Lily

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Nina LaCour, Hold Still

That's what friends do: they notice things. They're there for each other. They see what parents don't.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Nina LaCour, Hold Still

Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

Friedrich Nietzsche

A good author possesses not only his own intellect, but also that of his friends

Life Quotes And Sayings by Friedrich Nietzsche

Jess C. Scott, The Other Side of Life

Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).

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

Thứ Ba, 1 tháng 4, 2014

Anna Carey, Eve

What If I still want to go?" "Then you'll go," he said. "But I wanted you to know the danger." "There's always danger." His green eyes met mine. I was starting to see It, how It could happen-Caleb and me.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Anna Carey, Eve