#friends

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country ↗

— E.M. Forster

#honour #inspirational #friendship

She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced. ↗

— Jane Austen

#jane-austen #letters #love-and-friendship #loyalty #pen-pals

We stand in silence for another moment and I realize how lucky I am to have someone I can be myself around in all my melancholy glory. ↗

— Marisa Calin

#friendship #love #tough-times #friendship

If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then a friend of my enemy, is my enemy. ↗

— Pyreglide

#friendship #jealousy #friendship

My loyalty and friendship has no bounds, no matter where life takes us you'll always have my hand. ↗

— Ellie Williams

#ellie-williams #elliewillz #friendship

[Fireheart]mewed,"It's not my place to judge you." Greystripe looked up as Fireheart went on." Greystripe, whatever you decide to do, I will always be your friend. ↗

— Erin Hunter

#fireheart #firepaw #firestar #friend #friendship

It seems like our town has closed down these days leading up to the funeral. Old people still sit on their porches and talk, but their conversations aren't sprinkled with laughter anymore. Since the new, little kids haven't played outside, as if their moms are afraid someone might snatch them out of their yards and send them off to war. ↗

— Kimberly Willis Holt

#death #friendship #vietnam-war #age

I think of me and Melanie when we were younger, on the high dive at the pool in Mexico. We would always hold hands as we jumped, but by the time we swam back up to the surface, we'd have let go. No matter how we tried, once we started swimming, we always let go. But after we bobbed to the surface, we'd climb out of the pool, clamber up the high-dive ladder, clasp hands, and do it again. We're swimming separately now. I get that. Maybe it's just what you have to do to keep above water. But who knows? Maybe one day, we'll climb out, grab hands, and jumo again. ↗

— Gayle Forman

#growing-up #hopeful #reality-of-life #friendship

I’ve heard it said, that people, come into our lives for a reason. Bringing something we must learn and we aren’t, to help us most to grow, if we let them, and we help them in return. Well I don’t know if I believe that’s true, but I know I’m who I am today because I knew you ↗

— Stephen Schwartz

#musical #wicked #friendship

Rudy Steiner was scared of the book thief's kiss. He must have longed for it so much. He must have loved her so incredibly hard. So hard that he would never ask for her lips again and would go to his grave without them. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#love #friendship