#ay

You're worth the whole damn bunch put together. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#friendship #nick-carroway #the-great-gatsby #friendship

The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made a peace here that has joined many who would otherwise have been divided. I am the child of his forgiveness. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#pray-without-ceasing #family

The mortality rate of literary friendships is high. Writers tend to be bad risks as friends ~ probably for much the same reasons that they are bad matrimonial risks. They expend the best parts of themselves in their work. Moreover, literary ambition has a way of turning into literary competition; if fame is the spur, envy may be a concomitant. ↗

— Matthew Joseph Bruccoli

#friendship #hemingway #writers #friendship

There should be friendship vows. Did you ever think that? When you get married, you promise all that stuff - in sickness and in health, for richer and for poorer... But you do that when you're friends, too, don't you? The thick and thin stuff. ↗

— Elizabeth Noble

#friendship

I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners." Jace flipped a page. "Very funny, Fray. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary-fray #jace-wayland #funny

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#friends #friendship #influence #friendship

I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#always #been #canada #could #country

This shit is easy peasy, pumpkin peasy, pumpkin pie, muthafucka! ↗

— Gerard Way

#gerardway #peasy #pie #pumpkins #funny

I'm glad you think this is funny." "You're not happy to see me, then?" Jace asked. "I have to say, I'm surprised. I've always been told my presence brightened up any room. One might think that went doubly for dank underground cells. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#quip #simon-lewis #funny

When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#because #business #environment #good #group