#ship

I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#friendship

She realized all at once that Doon, thin, dark eyed Doon, with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket, and his good heart---- was the person she knew better than anyone now. He was her best friend. --City of Ember-- ↗

— Jeanne DuPrau

#city-of-ember #friendship #good-heart #jeanne-duprau #sweet

Friends don’t build cages for each other. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

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For it seemed to me, and I think to him, that it was from that sexual tension between us, admitted now and understood but not assuaged, that the great and sudden assurance of friendship between us rose: a friendship so much needed by us both in our exile, and already so well proved in the days and nights of our better journey, that it might as well be called, now as later, love. But it was from the difference between us, not from the affinities and likenesses, but from the difference, that that love came: and it was itself the bridge, the only bridge, across what divided us. For us to meet sexually would be for us to meet once more as aliens. We had touched, in the only way we could touch. We left it at that. I do not know if we were right. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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Maybe he does have a choice to make, but everything I feel, everything I know says absoloutely that choice will be you" "She speaks French and Italian." "That bitch. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#friendship #humor #mira #friendship

He needed me to make it okay. ↗

— Damon Suede

#love #friendship

That day was the beginning of my friendship with Sebastian, and thus it came about, that morning in June, that I was lying beside him in the shade of the high elms watching the smoke from his lips drift up into the branches. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#june #lips #shade #smoke #friendship

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal. ↗

— William Penn

#friendship #death

Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#escape #family #friendships #insanity #love

Make friendships before you get rich and famous. ↗

— Nico Schückle

#life #truth #friendship