#companionship

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with. ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#marriage #silence #talk #life

People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our lives and our souls, which are as unique as fingerprints in every way. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#bonding #companionship #dogs #experience #friendship

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

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

what is the matter with me? Am I too particular? I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with. ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#marriage #life

There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#celebration #companionship #enough #eroticism #just

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship. ↗

— Amelia Earhart

#appreciation #companionship #does #feels #fundamental

Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat. ↗

— Russell Crowe

#beautiful #chat #companionship #connection #courageous