#friends

Friendship is not a gift, but is the result of hard work. ↗

— Myles Munroe

#dating

(In a letter to colonel Robert Green Ingersoll's granddaughter) I was the friend of your immortal grandfather and I loved him truly… the name of Ingersoll is revered in our home, worshipped by us all, and the date of birth is holy in our calendar. ↗

— Eugene Victor Debs

#immortal #letter #respect #reverence #robert-g-ingersoll

Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#friendship #time #death

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required. ↗

— Indian proverb

#friendship

There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#friendship #death

...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go. ↗

— John Boyne

#friendship #holocaust #inspirational #life #love

It's a little hard not to worry when my best friend keeps on dying. ↗

— Kristin Cast

#friendship #zoey-redbird #death

And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go. ↗

— Edwin Arlington Robinson

#death #friends #grief #loss #poetry

It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When you’re afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. You make close friends. You become part of a tribe and you share the same blood- you give it together, you take it together. ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#death #friendship #war #death

No, Harry, you listen," said Hermione. "We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#dedication #friends #harry-potter #hermione #j-k-rowling