One way to tell if you're really comfortable with a person is if you can be quiet together sometimes and not feel awkward. If you don't feel obligated to say something brilliant or funny or surprising...
Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.
Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.
Partially trust your friends.Moderately trust your family.Seldomly trust your acquaintances.Never trust your enemies.Jealous friends betray you quickly.Envious friends will betray instantly.
People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
Sadly for my wedding plans, I learned that Nestor is a bardash. I envy the men who enjoy his favors. He has always treated me with friendship which I now value more than my old romantic feelings.
She explains that often the people who mean the most to us have to be left behind because they cannot follow us along our destined path.
She was spoiled, but she wasn't lazy. She knew what she wanted, and because she believed absolutely that she could have everything she wanted if she tried hard enough to get it, she never stopped tryi...
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past yo...
Some nights, we were a city of two.
That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
There came an awful day when I picked up the phone and knew at once, as one does with some old friends even before they speak, that it was Edward. He sounded as if he were calling from the bottom of a...
They were all becoming brothers, in the manner he had seen before: facing death together was the greatest of levelers.
They were your friends?Yes, they were my friends.And they will leave you to suffer alone?Now I see it.And until this, were they friends you could trust?I could trust them.I see what you mean. You mean...
This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends!
This is going to seem bitter but I don't mean it that way, V., I'm just stating a fact here: you'll only ever call me if I call you first. Have you noticed that? If I call and leave a message you'll c...
This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.
Together we would make reputation, we would have men in halls across Britain telling the story of our exploit. Or of our deaths. They were friends, they were oath-men, they were young, they were warri...
Very well.Say it.Say what?Say my name. Say, 'Very well, Dorian.'She rolled her eyes. If it pleases Your Magnanimous Holiness, I shall call you by your first name.
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