#friendship

I was breathless, talking as fast as I could. I was afraid if I stopped talking, even for a second, I’d start sobbing again. “Whoa, there.” Fang smiled and reached up, tracing a hand down the side of my face, winding strands of my hair around his fingers. “Stop talking and let me just tell you how great it is to wake up staring at your face. Okay? ↗

— James Patterson

#love #otp #friendship

We watch her walk into the spotlight she’s been been hiding from most of her life. Sure, friendship is all about believing in someone so hard they believe it, too. Sure, it’s about trust. But if anyone hurts her tonight, it’s about ripping them apart with my bare hands and really enjoying it. ↗

— Cath Crowley

#friendship

Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and companionless. Have will and plod along; and round each curve you shall find a new companion. ↗

— Mikhail Naimy

#endurance #friendship #friendship

And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more ... ↗

— Banana Yoshimoto

#goodness #kindness #tragedy #friendship

الصديقان النموذجيان كما زوج من القنافذ,يتعاطفان,و يتعاونان و يتلازمان,و لكن لا يذوبان فى يعضهما لأن كل واحد له درقة من الأشواك تحميه من أن يقتحم عليه الاّخر خصوصيته و سريته و ينتهك وحدانية نفسه و قدسية استقلاله. ↗

— مصطفى محمود

#friendship #life #life-lessons #friendship

Girlfriends and boyfriends come and go. The good times had with them are easily forgotten. But best friends stay in your heart forever. ↗

— Jennifer Jabaley

#friendship

A foe to God was never true friend to man ↗

— Edward Young

#god #friendship

They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's not true-' He took a deep breath. 'You do ask for something. You ask that we never expect you to need us. ↗

— Kamila Shamsie

#need #separation #friendship

Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys," he said from the saddle, "sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King's Landing and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy." "How odd. I think quite the same of you. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#friendship #humor #lord-varys #tyrion-lannister #friendship

What’s so phony nowadays is all this familiarity. Pretending there isn’t any difference between people —well, like you were saying about minorities, this morning. If you and I are no different, what do we have to give each other? How can we ever be friends? ↗

— Christopher Isherwood

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