Friendship
Quotes - Friends should be like books
“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.”
―
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, A Life For A Life
“Maybe
you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless
foreplay.”
―
Jess C Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
“He
brought out the worst in me, and was the best thing that ever happened to me.”
―
Coco J. Ginger
“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”
―
Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno
“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.”
―
Laura Pritchett, Sky Bridge
“The
Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all
disappear.”
―
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1
“Boys,
Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its
existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.”
―
Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
“Friends
should be like books, few, but hand-selected.”
― C.
J. Langenhoven
“A
friend is more than a therapist or confessor, even though a friend can
sometimes heal us and offer us God's forgiveness. A friend is that other person
with whom we can share our solitude, our silence, and our prayer. A friend is
that other person with whom we can look at a tree and say, "Isn't that
beautiful," or sit on the beach and silently watch the sun disappear under
the horizon. With a friend we don't have to say or do something special. With a
friend we can be still and know that God is there with both of us.”
―
Henri J.M. Nouwen
“Of
all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most
important is the acquisition of friends.”
―
Epicurus, A Guide to Happiness
“Has
it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are
automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not
to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow.
So one hundred worshipers met together, each one looking away to Christ, are in
heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be, were they to become
'unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer
fellowship.”
―
A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine
“If
you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.”
―
Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“Friendship
often ends in love. But love in friendship; never.”
―
Charles Caleb Colton
“Be
slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”
―
Benjamin Franklin
“The
shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.”
―
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Senectute, De Amicitia
“I
don't feel that way anymore," Nico muttered. "I mean... I gave up on
Percy. I was young and impressionable, and I- I don't..."
His
voice cracked, and Jason could tell the guy was about to get teary-eyed.
Whether Nico had really given up on Percy or not, Jason couldn't imagine what
it had been like for Nico all those years, keeping a secret that would've been
unthinkable to share in the 1940s, denying who he was, feeling completely
alone- even more isolated than other demigods.
"Nico,"
he said gently, "I've seen a lot of brave things. But what you did? That
was maybe the bravest.”
―
Rick Riordan, The House of Hades
“This
is what time travel is. It’s looking at a person, and seeing them in the
present and the past, concurrently. And that mode of transport only worked with
those one had known a significant time.”
―
Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“A
true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do
true friends.”
―
Scott Dikkers, You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin
Your Day
“Nothing
is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know
each other with their eyes — who meet and observe each other daily, even hourly
and who keep up the impression of disinterest either because of morals or
because of a mental abnormality. Between them there is listlessness and pent-up
curiosity, the hysteria of an unsatisfied, unnaturally suppressed need for
communion and also a kind of tense respect. Because man loves and honors man as
long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking
knowledge.”
―
Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales
“You
have some queer friends, Dorothy,' she said.
The
queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends,' was the answer”
― L.
Frank Baum, The Road to Oz
