#ends

it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#loss #life

They say that only very good friends quarrel. But at the end of the day a quarrel is a fight between two people’s egos. Since people cannot understand each other by just being honest. May be its impossible to live your whole life without getting hurt but don’t hurt the people close to you. ↗

— Ai Yazawa

#nana #life

My Zora senses are tingling," I said. Nathan looked at me blankly. "Right, you don't know anything about Spiderman," I remembered. "Spider who?" he asked. ↗

— Markelle Grabo

#fantasy #friendship #humor #friendship

The service--a moved Roosevelt called it the "keynote" of his meeting with Churchill--was working a kind of magic, which is one of the points of liturgy and theater: to use the dramatic to convince people of a reality they cannot see. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#friendship

You'll notice you don't have both feet on the ground when you don't have any friends around ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#faults #friendship #life #reality #friendship

Friendship is like putting butter on your socks before you slide them on. Sure, we all do it occasionally, but most of us would rather eat breakfast bare-handed at least once in a while. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#butter #food #friendship #funny #humor

Sometimes there's other reason for helping, other than personal gain or benefit," added Sam softly. "Friendship, companionship, trust and love are not confined to light alone...they are harder won, fewer seen...but no less real. ↗

— Eve Forward

#good #good-vs-evil #morality #friendship

Remind me to thank God I don’t have a sister.” Caine eyed him critically. He was a filthy heap of blood and soot and sand stuck to the gun oil on his face. “Yeah,” without much enthusiasm. “I’ll thank Him for ya. ↗

— V.S. Carnes

#love #sister #friendship

Two men don't really get to know one another until they have eaten a pound of salt together. ↗

— Chinese poet Chuang Szu

#friendship

But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers' work and origins unless they were his friends, he was a genius, and Voss one of the finest works of the modernist era and of the past century. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#australian-literature #friendship #literature #modernism #nastiness