Thứ Hai, 30 tháng 6, 2014

A.A. Milne, Now We Are Six

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

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

Chủ Nhật, 29 tháng 6, 2014

Rionna Morgan, The Wanting Heart

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Rionna Morgan, The Wanting Heart

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

Elen síla lúmenn' omentielvo

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

Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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

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

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

Thứ Bảy, 28 tháng 6, 2014

Claudia Gray, Afterlife

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Claudia Gray, Afterlife

Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

[A] friend in power is a friend lost.

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

Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

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

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

“Don’t you want it?”

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

“Why?”

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

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

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

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

Hilaire Belloc

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Hilaire Belloc

Ai Yazawa

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ai Yazawa

Thứ Sáu, 27 tháng 6, 2014

Bryan Davis, Raising Dragons

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Bryan Davis, Raising Dragons

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

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

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

Sarah Sprague

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Sarah Sprague

François de La Rochefoucauld

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by François de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

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

Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

[That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be broken.

The most terrible thing, though, was the fear that the wall could never be breached, that in his heart Alai was glad of the separation, and was ready to be Ender's enemy. For now that they could not be together, they must be infinitely apart, and what had been sure and unshakable was now fragile and insubstantial; from the moment we are not together, Alai is a stranger, for he has a life now that will be no part of mine, and that means that when I see him we will not know each other.

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

Thứ Năm, 26 tháng 6, 2014

Brian Jacques, The Legend of Luke

Sometimes friends do go from us-it will happen more and more as you grow up, Chugg. But if you really love your friends, they're never really gone. Somewhere they're watching over you and they're always there inside your heart.
-Martin

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

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

Even when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships — and nice, jolly little times with people.

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

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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

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

Raven Symone

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Raven Symone

Leslie Knope

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Leslie Knope

L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.

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

Thứ Tư, 25 tháng 6, 2014

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

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

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

Eoin Colfer, The Opal Deception

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Eoin Colfer, The Opal Deception

Nina LaCour, Hold Still

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Nina LaCour, Hold Still

Julia Child, My Life in France

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

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

J.M. Darhower, Sempre

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

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

John Green, Paper Towns

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

Life Quotes And Sayings by John Green, Paper Towns

Thứ Ba, 24 tháng 6, 2014

Terry Goodkind

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Terry Goodkind

David Nicholls, One Day

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by David Nicholls, One Day

Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock

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

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

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

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

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

Sydney Smith

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Sydney Smith

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

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

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

Thứ Hai, 23 tháng 6, 2014

Richard Matheson, I Am Legend and Other Stories

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

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

Alexandra Elle

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Alexandra Elle

Dag Hammarskjöld

Friendship needs no words.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Dag Hammarskjöld

Leonard Cohen

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Leonard Cohen

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

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

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

R.A. Salvatore

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by R.A. Salvatore

Chủ Nhật, 22 tháng 6, 2014

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright, Red Riding Hood

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

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

John D. Rockefeller

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by John D. Rockefeller

Jamie Oliver

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jamie Oliver

Jarod Kintz

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jarod Kintz

Baltasar Gracián

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Baltasar Gracián

Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel

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

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

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

Thứ Bảy, 21 tháng 6, 2014

Robin McKinley, Pegasus

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Robin McKinley, Pegasus

Rachel Vincent, My Soul to Lose

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

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

Chris Bradford, The Way of the Dragon

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

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

Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter

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

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

Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays

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

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

J.M. Darhower, Sempre

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

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

Thứ Sáu, 20 tháng 6, 2014

Ed Cunningham

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ed Cunningham

Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable

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

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

Thứ Năm, 19 tháng 6, 2014

Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

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

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

Kim Stanley Robinson, Icehenge

And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody else. That I was known by my actions and words, that my internal universe was unavailable for inspection by others. They didn't know. They didn't know, because I never told them.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Kim Stanley Robinson, Icehenge

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

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


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

Mary Renault (Fire From Heaven)

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

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

Thứ Tư, 18 tháng 6, 2014

James Patterson, Max

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

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

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

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

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


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

Life Quotes And Sayings by James Patterson, Max

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Books Three And Four

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

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

Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

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

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

Jeanne DuPrau

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jeanne DuPrau

Morrissey

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Morrissey

Thứ Ba, 17 tháng 6, 2014

May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

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

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

Peter Deunov

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Peter Deunov

Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca

Karen Blixen, Out of Africa

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Karen Blixen, Out of Africa

William James

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by William James

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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

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

Thứ Hai, 16 tháng 6, 2014

Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions

Abraham Kuyper

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Abraham Kuyper

Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

William James

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by William James

William Hazlitt, Selected Essays, 1778-1830

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

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

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

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

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

Chủ Nhật, 15 tháng 6, 2014

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

G. W. Cooke

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by G. W. Cooke

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

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

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

Nina LaCour

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Nina LaCour

William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

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

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

Thứ Bảy, 14 tháng 6, 2014

Nina LaCour, Hold Still

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Nina LaCour, Hold Still

George Alexiou

Friendship is thinking of the other person first.

Life Quotes And Sayings by George Alexiou

Edward Young

A foe to God was never true friend to man

Life Quotes And Sayings by Edward Young

James Patterson, Angel

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by James Patterson, Angel

Ahmad Fuadi, Ranah 3 Warna

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ahmad Fuadi, Ranah 3 Warna

Cath Crowley, A Little Wanting Song

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

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

Thứ Sáu, 13 tháng 6, 2014

Jonathan Lethem, Men and Cartoons: Stories

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

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

Deborah Eisenberg, The Stories

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Deborah Eisenberg, The Stories

Leigh Painter

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Leigh Painter

Orson Scott Card

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Orson Scott Card

Charlaine Harris, Dead in the Family

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

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

CLAMP, Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, Vol. 16

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

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

Thứ Năm, 12 tháng 6, 2014

Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

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

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

Lilith Saintcrow

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Lilith Saintcrow

Bertrand Russell

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Bertrand Russell

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

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

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

Vanna Bonta, Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel

There is no hospitality like understanding.

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

Samuel Butler

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Samuel Butler

Thứ Tư, 11 tháng 6, 2014

Katherine Mansfield

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Katherine Mansfield

Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

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

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

Jennifer Haigh, The Condition

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jennifer Haigh, The Condition

Charise Mericle Harper, Flashcards of My Life

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

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

Dag Hammarskjöld

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Dag Hammarskjöld

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thứ Ba, 10 tháng 6, 2014

Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir

When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwah, I felt at once that here was something that completely committed me. It was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying, and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression. Plus, of course, friendship—though I like to think that my reaction would have been the same if I hadn't known Salman at all. To re-state the premise of the argument again: the theocratic head of a foreign despotism offers money in his own name in order to suborn the murder of a civilian citizen of another country, for the offense of writing a work of fiction. No more root-and-branch challenge to the values of the Enlightenment (on the bicentennial of the fall of the Bastille) or to the First Amendment to the Constitution, could be imagined. President George H.W. Bush, when asked to comment, could only say grudgingly that, as far as he could see, no American interests were involved…

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

Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel

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

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

Thứ Hai, 9 tháng 6, 2014

Jim Butcher, Changes

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jim Butcher, Changes

Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care

Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

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

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

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

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

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

Chủ Nhật, 8 tháng 6, 2014

Darin Strauss

The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Darin Strauss

Meša Selimović, Death and the Dervish

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

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

Bonnie Jensen

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Bonnie Jensen

Thomas Fuller

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Thomas Fuller

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

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

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

Thứ Bảy, 7 tháng 6, 2014

Hans Selye

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Hans Selye

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

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

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

P.G. Wodehouse

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by P.G. Wodehouse

Carrie Vaughn, Kitty Takes a Holiday

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

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

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

Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

Thứ Sáu, 6 tháng 6, 2014

Luellen Hoffman

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Luellen Hoffman

Teresa of Ávila

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Teresa of Ávila

W.H. Auden

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by W.H. Auden

Beth Bernobich

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Beth Bernobich

Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

Thứ Năm, 5 tháng 6, 2014

Whitney Houston

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Whitney Houston

Emily Brontë, The Complete Poems

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Emily Brontë, The Complete Poems

Anonymous

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Anonymous

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

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

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

Jessica Park, Flat-Out Love

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

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

Thứ Tư, 4 tháng 6, 2014

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden). The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, "What? You too? I thought I was the only one."
... It is when two such persons discover one another, when, whether with immense difficulties and semi-articulate fumblings or with what would seem to us amazing and elliptical speed, they share their vision - it is then that Friendship is born. And instantly they stand together in an immense solitude.

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

Jim Butcher, Changes

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jim Butcher, Changes

Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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

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

Jodi Lynn Anderson, Peaches

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Jodi Lynn Anderson, Peaches

Veronica Roth

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

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Veronica Roth

Thứ Ba, 3 tháng 6, 2014

Ron Hall, Same Kind of Different as Me

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

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

Ann Patchett, Truth and Beauty

Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up speaking English and suddenly I could speak with all the complexity and nuance that I hadn't realized was gone. With Lucy I was a native speaker.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ann Patchett, Truth and Beauty

Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped

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

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped

Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

Ann Kaiser Stearns

The kindest way of helping yourself is to find a friend

Life Quotes And Sayings by Ann Kaiser Stearns

Thứ Hai, 2 tháng 6, 2014

Thomas Jefferson

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Thomas Jefferson

Henry David Thoreau

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Henry David Thoreau

Chris Crutcher, Deadline

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Chris Crutcher, Deadline

Charise Mericle Harper, Flashcards of My Life

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

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

Al Munoz

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Al Munoz

Chủ Nhật, 1 tháng 6, 2014

Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca

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

Life Quotes And Sayings by Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca

Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

Friends are born, not made.

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

Richard Russo, Empire Falls

What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?

Life Quotes And Sayings by Richard Russo, Empire Falls

Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

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

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

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

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

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