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Noel: A lot of people see friends as something you have on Twitter or Facebook or wherever. If someone wants to read your updates and you want to read their updates, then you’re friends. You don’t ever have to see each other. But that seems like a stupid definition to me. Roo: Yeah. Noel: Although on the other hand, rethink. Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they’re boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says, “Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed” – because he likes you anyway. He’ll tolerate your junk. Roo: You have lots of friends. Noel: No, I don’t. Roo: You do. You know everyone at school. You get invited to parties. Noel: I get invited to parties, yeah. And I know people. But I don’t want their updates. Roo: Oh. Noel: And I sincerely doubt they want mine. Roo: I want your updates. Noel: I want your updates. (He looks down, bashfully.) I do. I want all your updates, Ruby. ↗

— E. Lockhart

#friendship #friendship

The power we discover inside ourselves as we survive a life-threatening experience can be utilized equally well outside of crisis, too. I am, in every moment, capable of mustering the strength to survive again—or of tapping that strength in other good, productive, healthy ways. ↗

— Michele Rosenthal

#self-awareness #self-confidence #self-empowerment #trauma #traumatic-epiphonies

Our love is sharpened by the stone of our challenges and strengthened by the struggles of our growth. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#growth #happiness #life #love #relationships

It is proper for people to have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely. ↗

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#friendship #friendship

In his experience with women, it was difficult to recover once things began to go wrong--once they had unreasonably decided that you were a person with whom they were not under any circumstances ever going to have sex. ↗

— John Lanchester

#men #relationships #sex #women #dating

Telling a woman that you will be unable to climax unless you are looking at her in a mirror is, in my experience, an excellent way to ensure the only place you will ever see her again is in depressing memories. ↗

— Stephen Moles

#love #mirrors #orgasms #relationships #sex

Being giving is a big quality. Being too giving is a big mistake! ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#giving-advice #life-coaching #life-experience #life-tips #personal-growth

When I opened my case in the hotel, he gestured excitedly at my snakeskin sandals, turquoise suede wedges and silver-speckled jellies. “But you’ve loads of shoes,” he bellowed joyfully. I shook my head sadly. Men just don’t get it, do they? They’re definitely missing the shoe chromosome. ↗

— Marian Keyes

#men #relationships #shopping #family

I clung to each word that fell from his lips like a spider to a web. ↗

— Dannika Dark

#lips #romance #spider #sterling #twist

They say that time is relative. I think the way it's treating me it's a distant one, maybe a bad uncle, and not welcome in my house this Christmas!! ↗

— Neil Leckman

#humor #family