#companionship

The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#because #boy #business #companionship #end

Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called 'family', he saw now the joys of its unyielding togetherness, and was sorry not to have known more of it in his life. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#family #family

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship. ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#companionship #first #first time #love #marry

He is not my focus," Diana told writer Rodney Tyler of Arne. "He’s my husband, my companion, my lover, my confidant. But not my focus. I wasn’t lost, then found by Arne. I was single and met a wonderful man and we enjoyed each other’s company and enjoyed our times together. So it was not lost and found. That’s crap. I have never been lost. ↗

— J. Randy Taraborrelli

#husband #lost #lover #biography

An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table. ↗

— Stendhal

#companionship #humor #trust #humor

You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together. ↗

— John Green

#isaac #romantic #togetherness #will-grayson #romantic

How we need another soul to cling to. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#companionship #loneliness #need

When you don't know what you're searching for, you have to look absolutely everywhere. ↗

— Holly Black

#love #searching #love

Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#despair #fear #friendship #grace #loyalty

Life’s gonna kick you in the butt. That’s what it does. But if you gotta put up with this crap, the least you can expect is that your friends will stand by you. I mean, for crying in the night, what else are friends for but to help you make right what isn’t in life? (Kira, The Mishmorat) ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#eena #friends #friendship #hardship #help