#friends

A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching—they are your family. And they were my heroes. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#courage #family #friendship #harry-dresden #karrin-murphy

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably ↗

— William Penn

#courage

Every great day has a story and a song! ↗

— Faith Reese Martin

#courage #fantasy #friendship #historical-fiction #lost-colony

You know how you have a good meal and you got gravy left on the plate. The gravy was so good that you don’t want to leave it on the plate but you don’t want to be a pig about it? So you take your bread and use it to sop up the rest of the gravy. That guy is totally soppable! ↗

— Erin Jamison

#girlfriends #online-dating #sexy-men #dating

We have better relationships with those who truly seek us rather than those sitting on the couch watching us move mountains trying to prove ourselves. ↗

— Criss Jami

#courtship #dating #friend #friends #friendship

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#girlfriends #dating

We can let go of the person or love or friendship without letting go of the lesson. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#dating #friendships #lessons #let-go #letting-go

A male-female close-friendship hardly differs from a relationship; it takes "relating" to be friends. But sadly, not every relationship has friendship in it. It's just ironical that two people who are not good enough to be best friends are in love and want to spend the rest of their lives together. ↗

— Olaotan Fawehinmi

#close-friendship #dating #female #friends #friendship

That's ridiculous. The only point in having enemies is so you can defeat them, kill them, brush them aside." "Or give them a chance to redeem themselves. ↗

— Derek Landy

#enemies-and-friends #second-chances #tolerance #death

I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is anybody known to you who might benefit from a letter or a visit, do not on any account postpone the writing or the making of it. The difference made will almost certainly be more than you have calculated ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#death #friendship #illness #love #solidarity