“Rule a man, and he will do whatever you can imagine. Befriend him, and he will do more.”
Source: The Strength of the Few
“Am I on a f*cking kid's cartoon? What, are you gonna teach me the power of friendship? I've never had a friend and I don't need one.”
Source: Daydreams Entheogen
“I guess some friends are just glitter, and other friends are glue”
Source: Shouting at the Rain
“She nursed it back from the brink of death, and then I had the cutest little grape-sized gherkins to snack on, and a future sister-in-law with whom to sit on the couch for hours, doing schoolwork while she read her dry nonfiction books. Every once in a while, we’d look up, exchange a small smile, and go back to being alone, together”
Source: Problematic Summer Romance
“She was overwhelmed with love for him. Love in the sense that she trusted him, and saw all the good in his heart, and cared about him and wanted only good things to ever happen to him. Love in the sense that she would always be on his side, even if he was wrong, in the sense that he was one of the people on this Earth she believed in. And in that moment, the swelling in her heart was unbearable. Absolutely unbearable.”
Source: Atmosphere
“What happens if I lose you?", asked the boy.
"We are forever", said the horse, "even if I'm not here".”
“Sometimes the greatest sanctuary is not a place but a person.”
Source: The Home Within: A Soulful Memoir of Self-Belonging Across Cultures and Change
“Some friendships are chapters — finished but never wasted.”
Source: The Home Within: A Soulful Memoir of Self-Belonging Across Cultures and Change
“Eidhin: Tricky. We would need to meet again straight after. Otherwise your ceding will be obvious during your exam.
Vis: You're willing?
His look is disdainful.
Eidhin: To help you avoid death for something that is entirely not your fault? Yes.
He waves his hand as if I asked him to pass me a drink, not commit what the Hierarchy would consider fairly close to treason.”
Source: The Strength of the Few
“Eidhin: It is unpleasant, but this is the world you and I live in, now. Men must be bought or compelled, rather than relied upon to do the right thing. I will make sure Quintus Elevus does the right thing.”
Source: The Strength of the Few