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Without the friendship we'd never have discovered the reason we were friends. ↗

— Mike A. Lancaster

#friendship

In the consciousness that another mind reflects your thought, you find the keenest satisfaction. Here is the high office of a friend, and in these high experiences is the point of attachment.-- ↗

— Samuel McChord Crothers

#friendship #relating #experience

The other Dons in the room applauded and rose to shake hands with everybody in sight and to congratulate Don Corleone and Don Tattaglia on their new friendship. It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other. That was friendship enough in this world, all that was needed. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#diplomacy #mafia #friendship

We can't choose our blood, but we can choose those who run importance in our lives. ↗

— Alina Baker

#friendship #family

Who would guess," he teased, "that I'd ever see you on a rooftop with straw in your hair?" Kit giggled. "Are you saying I've turned into a crow?" "Not exactly." His eyes were intensely blue with merriment. "I can still see the green feathers if I look hard enough. But they've done their best to make you into a sparrow, haven't they? ↗

— Elizabeth George Speare

#individuality #spirit #friendship

L'amitié, dit-il, ce n'est pas d'être avec ses amis quand ils ont raison, c'est être avec eux même quand ils ont tord. ↗

— André Malraux

#friendship

Alain Badiou was once seated amongst the public in a room where I was delivering a talk, when his cellphone (which, to add insult to injury, was mine -- I had lent it to him) all of a sudden started to ring. Instead of turning it off, he gently interrupted me and asked me if I could talk more softly, so that he could hear his interlocutor more clearly . . . If this was not an act of true friendship, I do not know what friendship is. So, this book is dedicated to Alain Badiou. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#friendship

Pain is strong, aye - but friends' eyes, more strong." I told him that he knows next to nothing about me & I know nothing about him. He jabbed at his eyes & jabbed at mine, as if that single gesture were ample explanation. ↗

— David Mitchell

#friendship

No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart . ↗

— Stephen King

#friendship #heart #friendship

Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. --People of Sparks-- ↗

— Jeanne DuPrau

#books-of-ember #city-of-ember #friendship #jeanne-duprau #strength