#ends

The clown’s eyes sidled towards her, then drew away quickly. “But they kept me away from you earlier-and, on my word, you may laugh, but I was lonely for missing friendship. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#magnifico #friendship

That's how it started: a series of small hurts and excuses between two people that built up slowly, widening over time to form a vast and yawning divide. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#growing-apart #hurt #friendship

friends are like stars. You do not see all the time, but you know they are there ↗

— Tonya Hurley

#friendship

I used to think someone needed to be my best friend before I'd burden her with my problems or my tears. Now I think those interactions--the sobfest or therapy session--are the encounters that earn someone BFF status. ↗

— Rachel Bertsche

#friendship #friendship

His hand caresses my cheek. "Scarlett, I don't want to lose you by fucking up our friendship. I want you in my life, and if we d this, I will lose you. If that means showing some self-restraint for once in my goddamn life, then I will." Both his hands cup my cheeks. "You make me want to be a better person. This is me being a better person. ↗

— Denise Grover Swank

#friendship

I came to realize that one single human being, comprehended in his depth, who gives generously from the treasures of his heart, bestows on us more riches than Caesar or Alexander could ever conquer. Here is our kingdom, the best of monarchies, the best republic. Here is our garden, our happiness. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#friendship #love #friendship

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#love #marriage #spirituality #friendship

If someone's life is not enriched by their time with you, then you're not doing something right. ↗

— Osayi Osar-Emokpae

#love #time #friendship

Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests and affections, and keep the life of the spirit dawdling around them. Then they withdraw. When physical passion is involved, there is a definite name for such behaviour- flirting- and if carried far enough, it is punishable by law. But no law- not public opinion, even- punishes those who coquette with friendship, though the dull ache that they inflict, the sense of misdirected effort and exhaustion, may be as intolerable. Was she one of these? ↗

— E.M. Forster

#exhaustion #flirtation #friendship #intimacy #friendship

Now Doon seemed to care for his new friends more than he did for her. Every time she thought about him she felt a thud of pain, like a bruised place inside her. ↗

— Jeanne DuPrau

#city-of-ember #friendship #jeanne-duprau #lef-out #loneliness