Quotes About Friendship

Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself.

The sun and the moon shared the horizon in a distant friendship, each unfazed by the other.

And then, I was good to you, Sula, why don't that matter?...... How you know? Sula asked.... About who was good. How you know it was you?

Did you do it yet? He was like a teen-age girl wondering about the virginity of her friend, the friend who has a look, a manner newly minted––different, separate, focused somehow. Did you do it yet? Do you know something both exotic and ordinary that I have not felt? Do you now know what it's like to risk your one and only self? How did it feel? Were you afraid? Did it change you? And if I do it, will it change me too?

And then she knew. Her friends and neighbors were angry at her because she had overstepped, given too much, offended them by excess.

Pauline, what would you do if your own brother had a party and didn't invite you?' I said ifn I really wanted to go to that party, I reckoned I'd go anyhow. Never mind what he want. She just sucked her teeth a little and made out like what I said was dumb. All the while I was thinking how dumb she was. Whoever told her that her brother was her friend? Folks can't like folks just 'cause they has the same mama.

All that time, all that time, I thought I was missing Jude." And the loss pressed down on her chest and came up into her throat. "We was girls together," she said as though explaining something. "O Lord, Sula," she cried, "girl, girl, girlgirlgirl." It was a fine cry—loud and long—but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.

He wondered if there was anyone in the world who liked him. Liked him for himself alone.

Ona je prijatelj mog uma. Ona me je skupila, ?ove?e. Ove komadi?e od mene ona je skupila i vratila mi ih svaki na svoje mesto. Dobro je, znaš, imati ženu koja je prijatelj tvog uma.

She is a friend of my mind. She gathers me man. The pieces I am, she gathers them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not a comrade and could never be—for a woman.

They could not save their friend from the world. She broke.

There had been two or three girls who had helped him enter the fifties (lovely, lovely). Nothing to worry Margaret had she known. Merely life preservers in the post-fifty ocean, helping him make it to shore.

And how sweet that would have been: the two of them back by the milk shed, squatting by the churn, smashing cold, lumpy butter into their faces with not a care in the world.

What one puts up with in a friendship is determined by the emotional value of the relationship.

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind." ? Toni Morrison, Beloved

Frieda came toward us, her brown stockings straining at the knees because she had tucked the toe under to hide a hole in the foot.

We was girls together

Ashamed of the insults that were being heaped on our friend, we just sat there: I picked toe jam, Frieda cleaned her fingernails with her teeth, and Pecola finger-traced some scars on her knee—her head cocked to one side.

The handsome raucous men wanted to marry, live with, support, fund, and promote her. Smart and beautiful women wanted to be her friend, confidante, lover, neighbor, guest, playmate, host, servant, student or simply near.

Rick Starmover and Hal Sono in Space Wars: The Return.

Where you going?" Whitey asked. "Nowhere," said Jim. "Hang on a minute, then," said Whitey. "I ain't going nowhere, either.