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Quotes About Friendship

She's got this ability to shut me up when I start fretting over metaphysical questions, such as, "What is the nature of the universe?
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
One year, Alma bought Prudence- who liked to draw flowers (beautifully, though not 'accurately')- a lovely book on botanical illustration called Every Lady Her Own Drawing Master: A New Treatise on Flower Painting. That same year, Prudence made for Alma an exquisite satin pincushion, rendered in Alma's favorite color, aubergine.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I want to live in a world full of explorers and generous souls rather than people who have voluntarily become prisoners of their own fortresses. I want to live in a world full of people who look into each other's faces along the path of life and ask, "Who are you my friend and how can we serve each other?
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Groceries, baby, listen to your friend Richard. You go set your lily-white ass down in that meditation cave every day for the next three months and I promise you this--you're gonna start seeing some stuff that's so damn beautiful it'll make you wanna throw rocks at the Taj Mahal.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I like you, kiddo, and once I like a person, I can only like them always. That's a rule of my life.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
as a friend's grandfather once put it, "Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
But Alma thought it would kill her, this profundity of sorrow. She could not sound out the bottom of it. She had been sinking into it for a year and a half, and feared she would sink forevermore. She cried herself out on Hanneke's neck, sobbing forth the harvest of her long-darkened spirits. She must have poured a tankard of tears down Hanneke's bosom, but Hanneke did not move or speak, except to repeat, "There, there, child. It will not kill you.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
If you are a pretty young woman looking for trouble in a big city, it's not difficult to find. But if you are two pretty young women looking for trouble, then trouble will tackle you on every corner—which is just how we wanted it.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Scandal or no scandal, I believe that our friendship was always destined to have been momentary—a collision of two vain young girls who intersected at the zenith of their beauty and the nadir of their intelligence, and who had blatantly used each other to acquire status and turn men's heads. That's all it had ever been, really, and that was perfect. That's all it had ever needed to be. I'd found deeper and richer female friendships later on in life
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Bless his heart, Giovanni doesn't try to put a reassuring arm around me, nor does he express the slightest discomfort about my explosion of sadness. Instead, he just sits through my tears in silence, until I've calmed down.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
The two of us went digging for trouble with a shovel and a pickax that summer, and we never had the slightest trouble finding it.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I am touched that you are trying to comprehend me. A friend could not be more loving.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
My friend Susan suggested that perhaps I should establish a not-for-profit relief organization called "Divorcées Without Borders.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Very much of little consequence has transpired since last we met, my dear. Let's sit down for a drink and talk about none of it.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
as the years pass—there comes to be a terrible shortage of your people. The ones you loved. The ones who knew the people that you both loved. The ones who know your whole history.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
This is what I've found about life, as I've gotten older: you start to lose people, Angela. It's not that there is ever a shortage of people—oh, heavens no. It is merely that—as the years pass—there comes to be a terrible shortage of your people. The ones you loved. The ones who knew the people that you both loved. The ones who know your
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
This is what I've found about life, as I've gotten older: you start to lose people, Angela. It's not that there is ever a shortage of people—oh, heavens no. It is merely that—as the years pass—there comes to be a terrible shortage of your people. The ones you loved. The ones who knew the people that you both loved. The ones who know your whole history. Those
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
Again the thunder clapped. Still Eva stood in the field. Maybe, she thought, a girl struck by lightning would split down the middle and become two girls, and then she'd have a friend. She held out her watch with its metal band, to call the lightning down.
~ Elizabeth Graver
Take the Friendmaker, for instance. Oi called 'im that , and now, when people see 'im, they instantly want to be my friend. Those that live, o' course. - Grunthor
~ Elizabeth Haydon
May the stars guide you. May the winds cleanse all ills and remain at your back. May the earth protect you and give you strength. May fire guard you, and rain refresh you, may all nature be your friend until we meet again in this place.
~ Elizabeth Haydon
But…" Both men looked over inquiringly when Maximus spoke. "But I never asked you to help me with Noakes." Makepeace nodded, his expression grave. "You didn't have to." "You never had to," St. John concurred.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
Life and I became friends some years ago - not the sort of exciting friendship I longed for as a child, but a kindly truce, a pleasure in coming home every day to my apartment. I have a moment now and then - as I peel an orange and take it from kitchen counter to table - when I feel almost a pang of contentment, perhaps at that raw colour.
~ Elizabeth Kostova