#friendship

When I opened the box, I had to remove myself from whose handwriting it was that I was reading and whose story I was hearing. I had to, or I never would have made it past the first letter. If I stopped to think about my Grandpa writing to my Grandma, knowing how much he loved her and how many years he spent without her after her death, I knew I wouldn’t be able to make it through just one letter without an onslaught of tears. And it was Grandpa, a voice I knew so well. One that I miss terribly. ↗

— Kara Martinelli

#friendship #longing #love #wwii-history #death

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights. ↗

— Giotto di Bondone

#friends #lights #nights #ship #sincere

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#bonds #books #elements #friendship #granted

Ours is a circle of friendships united by ideals. ↗

— Juliette Gordon Low

#friendships #ideals #ours #united

But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost. ↗

— Alicia Machado

#experiences #expressing #feelings #first #foremost

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#always #comfort #explain #felt #great

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#friendship #lack #love #makes #marriages

One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#friendships #i #irreducible #lasting #loving

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. ↗

— Samuel Pepys

#able #am #bed #friends #i

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. ↗

— Plutarch

#better #change #changes #does #friend