#fr

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ↗

— George Eliot

#true-friends #love

I don't have a love life. I have a like life.' Mamie smiled. She thought how nice that might be, to be peacefully free from love... ↗

— Lorrie Moore

#love-life #love-story #life

Companionship was at the top of Epicurus's list of life's pleasures. He wrote, 'Of all the things that wisdom provides to help one live one's entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship. ↗

— Daniel Klein

#happiness #friendship

Amigos son los que en la prosperidad acuden al ser llamados y en las adversidades sin serlo. ↗

— Demetrio I. Rey de Macedonia.

#life-lessons #friendship

Raven had been shunned and abandoned throughout his life. Friends often came and went without a word or worse, they toyed with his emotions and shared his secrets with those he chose to distrust. His loneliness was inevitable and his secrets were damaging enough. Through all of his largely brief but emotionally involved friendships and infatuations, the depression and the darkness of his past, there had been one place to which he could go for solitude—either in thought or in person—and he never shared the knowledge of its existence or its secrets with anyone. That place dwelled within him even all of these years since the summer when he was nine and all that could ever have gone wrong, did. ↗

— Amanda M. Lyons

#loneliness #raven #secret-place #thoughts #friendship

Une lutte qui semble perdue, est la plus excitante. ↗

— Jacques Tardi

#french #interesting #life #life-lesson #life-lessons

The rat, huddled in the hollow of her palms, squeaked glumly. Delighted, she hugged him to her chest. "Oh poor baby," she crooned, almost as if he really were a pet. "Poor Simon, it'll be fine, I promise-" "I wouldn't feel too sorry for him," Jace said. "That's probably the closest he's ever gotten to second base." "Shut up!" Clary glared at Jace furiously, but she did loosen her grip on the rat. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#innuendo #jace-wayland #love-triangle #simon-lewis #love

We kiss all the time." I clear my throat, then add, "We just...do it in private." "A smug expression crosses his face. "I don't buy it for a second, 'cause if you were my girlfriend and a stud like me was livin' in your house, I'd kiss you in front of the guy every chance I got as a reminder." "A reminder of w-w-what?" "That you were mine. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#couples #kiss #love #relationships #romance

I love you Clary. More then I ever-- God. More than i probably should. You know that, don't you? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-wayland #love

But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary-fray #lost #love #love