#friendship

ESTRAGON: Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me! VLADIMIR: Did I ever leave you? ESTRAGON: You let me go. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#solidarity #friendship

And then she felt her Ell’s great strong presence beside her, and Saturday slipped his hand in hers. Oh. Oh. They would not abandon her. Of course, they would not. How silly she had been. They were her friends—they had always been. Friends can go odd on you and do things you don’t like, but that doesn’t make them strangers. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#friendship #friendship

A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself. ↗

— Francis Ward Weller

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Tôi chẳng hiểu Binô thích tôi ở điểm nào. Binô là một đứa bạn thú vị. Trong khi ngược lại, tôi là một đứa nhạt nhẽo. Có lẽ nó thích tôi chỉ vì tôi thích nó. Con người chắc cũng vậy: đôi khi bạn yêu mến một ai đó đơn giản chỉ vì người đó thật lòng yêu mến bạn. Tâm hồn chúng ta được sinh ra là để chờ đáp lại niềm yêu mến đến từ một tâm hồn khác. Nó giống như chiếc ống sáo, sẵn sàng reo lên khi ngọn gió mùa hè thổi qua. ↗

— Nguyễn Nhật Ánh

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Janji.. kau akan menjadi sahabat terbaikku.. BerJanjilah ... kau akan menjadi sahabat terbaikku. untuk menemaniku di saat senang, di saat gembira, di saat tertawa, dan di saat mulut mengatup karena sakit di hati. Berjanjilah untukku ... bahwa kau sanggup untuk menjadi besar pula saat aku berada di titian tinggi awan . Berjanjilah ... karena di sini sangat sepi ... tidak banyak orang yang berhasil sampai di sini. Berjanjilah kau akan terus menaiki tangga itu hingga kau juga tiba di sini. Berjanjilah ... ! Jika 'Ya' , engkau bersedia ... ↗

— Bang Irhan

#friendship

If you truly want to know a person, talk to their enemies. ↗

— Jamie Leanne Gaines

#friendship #hate #knowing #knowledge #friendship

As I’ve said, it wasn’t until a long time afterwards—long after I’d left the Cottages—that I realized just how significant out little encounter in the churchyard had been. I was upset at the time, yes. But I didn’t believe it to be anything so different from other tiffs we’d had. It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven could unravel and separate over a thing like that. But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task. If we’d understood that back then—who knows?—maybe we’d have kept a tighter hold of one another. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#kathy-h #relationships #friendship

It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt. ↗

— Melissa de la Cruz

#interesting #pain #friendship

I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend. ↗

— David Levithan

#honesty #relationship #friendship

I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself. ↗

— Stendhal

#sense #will #friendship