#ship

I cannot help feeling there is something essentially wrong about love. Friends may quarrel or drift apart, close relations too, but there is not this pang, this pathos, this fatality which clings to love. Friendship never has that doomed look. Why, what is the matter? I have not stopped loving you, but because I cannot go on kissing your dim dear face, we must part, we must part. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#friendship

But, I believe," I continue, "I know what true love is - or what it should be." "What should it be?" Tristan asks, his voice soft now. "It should be a friendship and truly knowing who a person is, knowing his flaws and hopes and strengths and fears, knowing all of it. And admiring and caring for - loving the person because of those things. ↗

— Lisa Ann Sandell

#elaine-of-ascalot #friendship #gradual-love #lady-of-shallot #over-the-years

I don't think chocolate and blueberries would be good, I think YOU and chocolate would be better. ↗

— Oscar Torres

#blueberries #chocolate #friendship #good #love

Friendship was a concept men bandied about to save face when they were rejected. ↗

— Courtney Milan

#rejection #friendship

Stop looking for the path of least resistance and start running down the path of greatest glory to God and good to others, because that's what Jesus, the Real Man, did. ↗

— Mark Driscoll

#manhood #masculinity #risk #friendship

Someday we're going to look back on every shared smile and smile some more. It's moments like this that make life worth enduring. ↗

— Nadège Richards

#friendship #heart #life #love #relationships

Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It’s not possible to predict what will happen if you open the gunnysack, let the cat escape. A liberated feline might purr on your lap, or it might scratch your eyes out. You can’t tell until you loosen the knot. Do you chance losing a friendship, if that friend’s well-being will only be preserved by betraying sworn-to silence trust? Once the seam is ripped, can it be mended again? And if that proves impossible, will you be okay when it all falls to pieces? ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#chick-lit #contemporary #novels #poetry #spilling-a-secret

And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#friendship

Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/ as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant since/the oldest maps. ↗

— Kay Ryan

#inspiration #love #friendship

I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend. ↗

— Graham Greene

#friendship #heartbreak #love #friendship