#hip

Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up. "You're cute when you're worried," she muttered. "Your eyebrows get all scrunched together." "You are not going to die while I owe you a favor," I said. "Why did you take that knife?" "You would've done the same for me." It was true. I guess we both knew it. Still, I felt like somebody was poking my heart with a cold metal rod. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#debt #favor #friendship #knife #percy-jackson

People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#love #responsibility #friendship

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.... ↗

— Nicole Richie

#friendship #friendship

When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship. ↗

— Robin McKinley

#friendship

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone. ↗

— James Frey

#friendship #healing #friendship

I knew they would kill me when they found out, but…” He struggled for words, releasing a sharp breath. “I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you. ↗

— Marissa Meyer

#choice #emotions #friendship #love #scarlet

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us. ↗

— Hubert Humphrey

#honor #pride #recovery #friendship

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#friendship

la amistad es la raíz del amor puro. el amor puro es la fuente de la felicidad. ↗

— Sitta Karina

#love #friendship

General benevolence, but not general friendship, make a man what he ought to be. ↗

— Jane Austen

#friendship