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“For if the truth were known, Love cannot speak, But only thinks and does; Though surely out 'twill leak Without the help of Greek, Or any tongue.”

Book:Collected Essays and Poems

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Collected Essays and Poems

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“No, Geo—underneath all that, Nan really loves me. It’s just she wants me to see things her way. You know, she’s two years older; that meant a lot when we were children. I’ve always thought of her as being sort of like a road—I mean, she leads somewhere. With her, I’ll never lose my way.”

Love Friendship

Book:A single man

Source: A single man

“Where are you from? New York?" "Weird you picked up on that," she said, "I've been gone from there for so long." Like a couple of decades could dilute that accent.”

Humor Friendship Memoir Cheap Cabernet A Friendship

Book:Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship

Source: Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship

“He still wasn't looking at me, which meant I was still in trouble. I swear, sometimes this partnership is like being married. We fight all the time and neither one of us is getting married.”

Humor Friendship

Book:Hard Day's Knight

Source: Hard Day's Knight

“I wish you'd stayed longer. I had so much to tell you. I just know you would have understood.”

Understanding Friendship Longing Mental Health Leaving Stay Goodbyes

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“I have this thing about friends and secrets. Sometimes when I meet a person I like, I tell them a secret they don't know me well enough to be told. It lets me judge their potential as a friend.”

Friendship Trust Friends Loyalty Secrets Judge Judging Others Trustworthiness Judging People Sharing Secrets

Book:Moth Smoke

Source: Moth Smoke

“It is through the strength of what is genuine that meaningful connections build into relationships.”

Friendship Relationship Genuine Authenticity Connection Networking Authentic Connectedness Likeable Likability

Book:11 Laws of Likability

Source: 11 Laws of Likability

“We will not always be here, so let's make the best use of what we have, when we still have it.”

Love Life Friendship Family Relationship Commitment Break Up

Book:The Soldier Within

Source: The Soldier Within

“Men should friendly confer together, and offer one another their gifts and knowledge in love, and try things one with another, and hold that which is best, and not so stand in their own opinion as if they could not err.”

Love Friendship Err Confer

Author:Jakob Böhme

“Pets are almost always fatal, to oneself or to them. It is the curse of possession or motherhood. Mothers ruin their children, choke them like ivy. Dog-lovers steal the souls of their dogs and lose something in exchange. There is an essay on this subject by (I think) Stella Benson called “A Firefly to Steer By.” Everybody ought to read it.”

Friendship Motherhood Mothers Animals Pets A Firefly To Steer By

Book:England Have My Bones

Source: England Have My Bones

“Talking with Elaine like that, with no judgment from her or anything, seemed to bring my feelings more to the surface so I could look at them. I love times like that; you don't get many of them. (Walker, in STOTAN!)”

Friendship Introspection Self Reflection Unconditional_acceptance

Author:Chris Crutcher

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