Friendship
Quotes - What is love?
“He
could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person
dead to shame, an idiot ghost.”
―
Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
“What
is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.”
―
Joseph Roux
“A
messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends.
Real
friends are there to visit you not your house!”
―
Jennifer Wilson
“I
suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss
feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what
good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and
harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what
someone, or a group of people, might actually be like.”
―
Jess C Scott, New Order
“To
throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away”
―
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
“The
moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always
dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.”
―
Shannon L. Alder
“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.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“I
hugged him without any kind of fear or self-consciousness, fiercely, with a
rush of emotion that almost brought tears to my eyes.
"I
could kiss you!" Chubs cried.
"Please
don't!" I gasp out, feeling his arms tighten around my ribs to the point
of cracking them.”
―
Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds
“A
doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the
other, and we then know how to meet him.”
―
Aesop, Aesop’s Fables
“Just
because I've gone and snagged myself a hot boyfriend doesn't mean I'm going to
leave my bestfriend high and dry.”
―
Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo
“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.”
―
Brian Andreas, Traveling Light: Stories & Drawings for a Quiet Mind
“By
chance we met, by choice we become friend”
―
Millie
“You're
such a pain in the ass. (Butch)
Said
the SIG to the Glock. (V)”
―
J.R. Ward, Lover Revealed
“A
single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.”
―
Leo Buscaglia
“Nico
scowled. ‘It’s none of your business, but I don’t belong. That’s obvious. No
one wants me. I’m a child of –’
‘Oh,
please.’ Will sounded unusually angry. ‘Nobody at Camp Half-Blood ever pushed
you away. You have friends – or at least people who would like to be your
friend. You pushed yourself away. If you’d get your head out of that brooding
cloud of yours for once –”
―
Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
“Remembering.
Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.”
―
Kelley Armstrong, The Calling
“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.”
―
Bridget Davis
“I
have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability
of type that literary characters acquire in the reader's mind. [...] Whatever
evolution this or that popular character has gone through between the book
covers, his fate is fixed in our minds, and, similarly, we expect our friends
to follow this or that logical and conventional pattern we have fixed for them.
Thus X will never compose the immortal music that would clash with the
second-rate symphonies he has accustomed us to. Y will never commit murder.
Under no circumstances can Z ever betray us. We have it all arranged in our
minds, and the less often we see a particular person, the more satisfying it is
to check how obediently he conforms to our notion of him every time we hear of
him. Any deviation in the fates we have ordained would strike us as not only
anomalous but unethical. We could prefer not to have known at all our neighbor,
the retired hot-dog stand operator, if it turns out he has just produced the
greatest book of poetry his age has seen.”
―
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
“Friendships
between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small
kindnesses... swapped back and forth and over again.”
―
Michelle Obama, Becoming
“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.”
―
Jody Gehrman, Babe in Boyland
