#ends

Govinda was standing in front of him, dressed in the yellow robe of an ascetic. Sad was how Govinda looked like, sadly he asked: Why have you forsaken me? At this, he embraced Govinda, wrapped his arms around him, and as he was pulling him close to his chest and kissed him, it was not Govinda any more, but a woman, and a full breast popped out of the woman's dress, at which Siddhartha lay and drank, sweetly and strongly tasted the milk from this breast. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#friendship #friendship

Southern gentleman,” he said aside to him in Arabic. “Do you wish for me to continue this for you?” Caine’s temper shifted to a low simmer in his chest. “Your way takes too long.” “Ma’aleyk, and your way hurts my ears,” he argued. ↗

— V.S. Carnes

#love #romance #friendship

In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends... ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#humor #friendship

Nėra man brangesnės pagarbos už pagarbą žmogaus, kurį pats dėl jo nuopelnų labiausiai gerbiu. ↗

— Apulėjus

#friendship

And a youth said, Speak to us of Friendship. And he answered, saying: Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with Thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, And you seek him for peace. The Prophet ↗

— Hermann Finsterlin

#friendship

All but one of Zoe Pendergraft's friends were dead. ↗

— India Drummond

#friendship #supernatural #friendship

With the Smithies, it was different. There was sometimes no telling where one of them began and the others left off. ↗

— J. Courtney Sullivan

#sorority #friendship

Darya Alexandrovna made no reply. She suddenly felt that she had got far away from Anna; that there lay between them a barrier of questions on which they could never agree, and about which it was better not to speak. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#worldview #friendship

Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else." "Oh! my dear Love, I know. You want reality. So do I. What's between us will last for ever because it's founded on reality. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#love #reality #friendship

It was a gusty day, and from the windows of Caroline's top-floor flat, only the sky was visible with its little hurrying clouds. It was a day when being indoors was meaningful, wasting an afternoon in superior confidences with a friend before the two-barred electric heater. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#friendship #friendship