#de

It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#childhood #descriptions #friend #friends #friendship

My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter. I was assured, before I sent it, he would not answer it. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

#assured #before #cathedral #exeter #faith

My life is like a dead language than no one knows, however, for some reason you speak it fluently and that is why I don’t feel alone. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#love #oneness #romance #seeing-me #understanding

In the closed circle of the war cabinet, pounded by terrible report after terrible report, there had been uncertainty about whether he could fend off the drift to exploring a deal with Hitler. The determination of the larger group trumped the tentativeness of the smaller, and Churchill fulfilled his role as leader by disentangling himself from defeatism--one of his singular achievements at the end of May 1940. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#determination #group-dynamics #winston-churchill #friendship

Oh, Hank," Susan whispered, "their wings are furry." "Oh, James," Harriet whispered, "their hands are kind. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#compassion #fantasy #friendship #kids #wonder

Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he's doing that Howard Dean isn't doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together. ↗

— Susan Estrich

#chairman #dean #doing #howard #howard dean

Wanneer kinderen groter worden verdedigen ze hun geheimen uit alle macht. Anders zouden ze door hun moeders worden verslonden. Het ergste wat ik ken zijn jongelui die alles met hun moeder delen. Die worden nooit vrij. ↗

— Marianne Fredriksson

#moeders #friendship

He makes no friends who never made a foe. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#friends #made #makes #never #who

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility. ↗

— William Cobbett

#independent #nearly #poor #very

Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#because #being #books #companionship #conscious