“True friends are those rare souls who see the real you, stay when the world walks away, and remind you of your strength when you forget it yourself.”
Source: Tales of Habib the Hoaxter: Sometimes Hoaxed, Always Good for a Laugh
“Our meeting had that quality of sweetness that lingers, that lasts for a lifetime; even if you never speak to the person again, see their face, you can always return in your heart to that moment when you were together to be renewed...”
Source: Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
“Stories for children are blueprints for emotional strength. I write to help them build soft hearts with strong roots”
Source: Princess and Bosbo's Butterfly Adventure
“Because I loved Estée. Because I admired her. I drew strength and courage from her. I needed her in my life. To me, Estee was a sterling example of how to get ahead on pure determination and honest hard work. My father had failed me in that respect, but Estée, well, Estée was my role model, even if I couldn't always follow her advice.”
Source: Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl
“It was one of those friendships that came on quick, like the heat on a July day, and long after midnight you could still feel its sticky film on your skin as you lie awake in your room, the fan blowing in what remained of the scorched hours, and realize for the first time in your peep of a life that no one is ever truly alone.”
Source: The Emperor of Gladness
“The boys had this way of knowing what the other was thinking without ever using words. "Because it's like that when you're fourteen," he said. The superpower of being young is that you're closest to being nothing - which is also the same as being very old.”
Source: The Emperor of Gladness
“You've got me, anyhow. I'm not good for much, I know; but I'll stand by you, Jo, all the days of my life; upon my word I will!' and Laurie meant what he said.”
Source: Little Women
“The only one linking up perfectly to my best moves is- I knew it'd be you, Isagi! I love you, partner.”
Source: ブルーロック 14 [Blue Lock 14]
“The boy wasn't beautiful. Not even handsome in this gentle, dusky light. It was only that they were the same age, and that they worked there, shoulder touching through the steaming, aching hours, passing cigarettes back and forth in this lot, the filter's taste changing: slick and slightly sweeter from the blue Gatorade Russia sipped through his shift. Can camaraderie - the bond of working in unison - be eno0ught to make you want to put your mouth to a kid with a busted face, to find him somehow more complete despite his unrecognizable beauty, the smell of his armpits seeping through his work polo, that garlicky, vinegary scent of humanness canceling the drugstore deodorant he wore to hide it? Yes, Hai realized now - it was.”
Source: The Emperor of Gladness
“I haven’t been around very long, but if there’s one thing I’ve learned already, it’s that even the friends who can take care of themselves need help sometimes.”