#friendship

And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody else. That I was known by my actions and words, that my internal universe was unavailable for inspection by others. They didn't know. They didn't know, because I never told them. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#friendship #identity #isolation #communication

It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world. ↗

— Alison Croggon

#friendship #manners #food

So they were pen pals now, Emma composing long, intense letters crammed with jokes and underlining, forced banter and barely concealed longing; two-thousand-word acts of love on air-mail paper. Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them. In return, Dexter sent her postcards with insufficient postage: ‘Amsterdam is MAD’, ‘Barcelona INSANE’, ‘Dublin ROCKS. Sick as DOG this morning.’ As a travel writer, he was no Bruce Chatwin, but still she would slip the postcards in the pocket of a heavy coat on long soulful walks on Ilkley Moor, searching for some hidden meaning in ‘VENICE COMPLETELY FLOODED!!!! ↗

— David Nicholls

#friendship #love #one-day #friendship

If a man truly loves, he gives no heed to what others may think. His heart has no room for that, for it is filled to the brim with the unutterable truth of his feelings. ↗

— Juliet Marillier

#friendship #love #paula #romance #stoyan

Friendship isn't about whom you have known the longest... It's about who came, and never left your side. ♥ ↗

— Mikaela Tiu

#hate #life #love #relationship #friendship

The Guardians wouldn't abandon the last Dragomir. And I wouldn't have abandoned Lissa even if there were a million Dragomirs. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#friendship

It's like, you can't trust anybody, and if somebody you know doesn't fuck you over it's just because the price of selling you down the river was never high enough. ↗

— Jay McInerney

#friendship

It is hard to find a friend,' I said. 'It is the hardest thing in this world,' he agreed. ↗

— Patrick deWitt

#friendship

You can't overdose on friends, only enemies. ↗

— Thomas F. Shubnell

#friendship

True friendship is as rare as twin lotuses on a single stalk. ↗

— Lauren Bjorkman

#friendship #friendship-true-and-loyal #friendship