#ship

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#friendship

For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#friendship #pain #death

Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#education

A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#friendship #loneliness #friendship

Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#friendship

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential. ↗

— Rusty Berkus

#love #friendship

A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#relationships #sex #friendship

This is the real way a friendship ends. Not with some huge screaming row, but with a gradual withdrawal. You’d think it would be less painful this way. ↗

— Cat Clarke

#laine-s-fave #sad #friendship

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us ↗

— Epicurus

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Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#silence #friendship