#ip

Conversationally, we were Fred and Ginger -- spin, slide, shuffle, bend. ↗

— Marisa de los Santos

#friendship #love #friendship

He still wasn't looking at me, which meant I was still in trouble. I swear, sometimes this partnership is like being married. We fight all the time and neither one of us is getting married. ↗

— John G. Hartness

#humor #friendship

The drone in my ear, it’s like the tornado drill in elementary school, the hand-cranked siren that rang mercilessly, all of us hunched over on ourselves, facing the basement walls, heads tucked into our chests. Beth and me wedged tight, jeaned legs pressed against each other. The sounds of our own breathing. Before we all stopped believing a tornado, or anything, could touch us, ever ↗

— Megan Abbott

#bravery #friendship #stength #friendship

Thank you for being a friend. ↗

— Christopher Huh

#friendship

The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#always #approach #characters #fiction #flexible

loving friendship is able to endure everything; it refuses no burden. ↗

— Francesco Petrarca

#love #friendship

That’s what I always wanted to know. Why would some fella be willing to do something generous for a kid he doesn’t even know?” Rodney asked. “Have to say I’m surprised, Mr. Burton. Of all the people on the face of the earth,” he said, his voice softening, “I figured if anyone knew the answer to that one, it’d be you. ↗

— Kenny Rogers

#friendship #generosity #friendship

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places. ↗

— A.C. Grayling

#principles #reason #age

There goes the world's wimpiest vampire. ↗

— Heather Swain

#friendship #humor #vampires-in-america #friendship

If you are building an army I should be your number one general,” –Lawrence Ottoise. ↗

— Ray Anyasi

#friendship