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Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#friendship

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential. ↗

— Rusty Berkus

#love #friendship

A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#relationships #sex #friendship

This is the real way a friendship ends. Not with some huge screaming row, but with a gradual withdrawal. You’d think it would be less painful this way. ↗

— Cat Clarke

#laine-s-fave #sad #friendship

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us ↗

— Epicurus

#friendship

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#silence #friendship

I sew his ears on from time to time, sure. ↗

— Patrick O'Brian

#friendship #maturin #surgery #friendship

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#friendship

That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#friendship

Friends never turn as enemies. If they did, they were never your friends at all. ↗