#ends

Jimmy put in a word and told them that if I made it, I wouldn't be able to live with myself without paying them back. That I'd sooner die than owe anyone money for helping me. Apparently Jimmy knew more about me at that point than I knew about myself. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#friendship #rehab #self-awareness #friendship

Mom asked for a cupcake miracle? Well, here comes the freaking holy angel of icing, at your service. --Hudson Angel icing? That's the craziest, corniest, most whack-ass stuff I've heard in my life ↗

— Sarah Ockler

#friendship #ice #friendship

Jess thought for a moment. 'You know those films where people fight up the top of the Empire State Building or up a mountain or whatever? And there's always that bit when the baddie slips off and the hero tries to save him, but, like, the sleeve of this jacket tears off and goes over and you hear him all the way down. Aaaaaaaaagh. That's what I want to do.' 'You want to watch me plunge to my doom.' 'I'd like to know that I've made the effort. I want to show people the torn sleeve. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#effort #friendship #hornby #friendship

Be sure it is not for nothing that the Landlord has knit our hearts so closely to time and place – to one friend rather than another and one shire more that all the land. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#place #friendship

Maybe he does have a choice to make, but everything I feel, everything I know says absoloutely that choice will be you" "She speaks French and Italian." "That bitch. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#friendship #humor #mira #friendship

He needed me to make it okay. ↗

— Damon Suede

#love #friendship

That day was the beginning of my friendship with Sebastian, and thus it came about, that morning in June, that I was lying beside him in the shade of the high elms watching the smoke from his lips drift up into the branches. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#june #lips #shade #smoke #friendship

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal. ↗

— William Penn

#friendship #death

Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#escape #family #friendships #insanity #love

Make friendships before you get rich and famous. ↗

— Nico Schückle

#life #truth #friendship