#fr

But they were not friends. They were here to keep each other from spinning off alone into the dark matter of the universe. ↗

— Carol Anshaw

#friendship #life #universe #family

what did you think would happen—best case? She’ll forget about you when you return to Caliban, you know that. Or do you think she won’t wish, that you can stay here with her? That for the rest of her life, she’ll put you above getting whatever she wishes for? Even better—that for the rest of her life, she won’t slip up and say something like ‘I wish it would stop raining’? You can’t win this. In the end, you’ll be in Caliban. She’ll forget you. And whatever ‘friendship’ you think you have will be gone. Relationships are not for immortals. A bird and a fish may long for each other, but where could they live? ↗

— Jackson Pearce

#genie #ifrit #friendship

The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility. ↗

— Martin Puryear

#followed #freedom #grieving #incredible #lightness

Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there's more! ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#autograph #free #here #hey #more

I have a good life, I remind myself. There are plenty of people who love me. They're just not around at the moment. ↗

— Cynthia Hand

#family #friendship #life #love #family

We want to increase our investment so the next year we'll borrow less. We want to make sure that we provide more jobs for our people. We need to bring fresh money. ↗

— Hesham Qandil

#bring #fresh #increase #investment #jobs

I'm really going to miss all the people in the front office, media relations, marketing, all the great people at the ball park. They were my family for a while, and that part really stings. But life does go on. ↗

— Mike Quade

#does #family #front #go #going

Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#freedom #inspirational #inspirational-attitude #inspirational-quotes #inspiring

Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#always #been #bitter #even #frequently

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#children #enough #learned #once #rules