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Quotes About Friendship

and Bill broke a cheerful silence for the first time to say he wished he hadn't lost his ocarina with his kit, because he had never had a better one.
~ Angela Thirkell
Philip said that the older he got the more he realised that everyone in Dickens, without exception, was a real person, and quite a lot of them were among his friends.
~ Angela Thirkell
How two such charming women as Mrs. Brandon and Peggy can tolerate such a bounder as Francis beats me. I don't mean there's anything wrong with him, but he looks so damned pleased with himself.
~ Angela Thirkell
The Knox family were all there, as neither George's Catholicism nor his Presbyterianism prevented him from supporting the vicar, who was a great friend.
~ Angela Thirkell
Hullo, Rose,' said Delia Brandon, 'you do look gorgeous. I wish I could have a wedding dress like that.' Rose said she thought white satin was a bit dispiriting, but Mummy would have it. 'And anyway,' she said with great simplicity, 'if there was a war or anything and John got killed or something, I could have it dyed black.
~ Angela Thirkell
You all right?" Scott queried. "Sure.  Why?" "You're quiet.  That's not normal." "Just thinking." "Don't pull a muscle.
~ Angela Verdenius
Eternal Friend, help me to be thoughtful and to resist committing acts that are evil in Your eyes. Whatever sins I have committed, please blot them out in Your abundant kindness and spare me suffering or harmful illnesses. May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart find acceptance before You, Eternal Friend, who protects and frees me. Forgiveness
~ Angeles Arrien
Como si nada hubiera ocurrido, como si aún viviéramos en los tiempos felices en los que creíamos que nadie podría nunca separarnos y nos imaginábamos en un futuro muy lejano, viejas y juntas, ella apoyó su cabeza sobre la mía
~ Ángeles Caso
Ah Ratty, what good times we'll have," said Mad Jack. "Just you and me, Ratty. We'll go cuttin' them reeds together, and if you're good we'll go to the circus when it comes to town and see the clowns. I love them clowns, Ratty. We'll have a good life together. Yes we will. Oh yes.
~ Angie Sage
Barney," she said, "would you like to help me look for a stupid giant banana?" Barney grinned. "Ooh, yes please," he said.
~ Angie Sage
Both Septimus and Beetle knew enough to recognize a jinnee when they saw one, and Wolf Boy knew quite enough to recognize something extremely weird.
~ Angie Sage
Spit Fyre practised a recently acquired skill - he winked.
~ Angie Sage
As desolate as he had felt when his best friend, Boy 409, had fallen overboard in a night raid and they had not been allowed to stop to pick him up.
~ Angie Sage
He was still the same boy. Still a little scared, and still wanting to do what was best. The dragon approved.
~ Angie Sage
Alther smiled. He liked the sound of "Alther and I" and he liked the way Alice considered his concerns to be hers too.
~ Angie Sage
Het is Snorri maar, met de NachtUllr.' Septimus begreep er niets van, maar als Jenna niet bang was van een grommende panter, zou hij zich er ook niets van aantrekken.
~ Angie Sage
My name is Nicko. Nicko Heap. And this is my girlfriend, Snorri Snorrelssen.
~ Angie Sage
Oh, I so miss Sep, he used to tell me so much stuff about all sorts of useless things…
~ Angie Sage
Nicko smiled and held out his hand. "Come on, Snorri," he said. "Let's go find her. She can't be far.
~ Angie Sage
I'm stopping you," Lucy said, catching him and grabbing his arm. "You are not going to do anything so stupid… Look Septimus, you're clever. Even I know what those purple stripes on your sleeves mean, so - like Wolf Boy said - use your head.
~ Angie Sage
A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat ... but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
~ Anita Brookner
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
~ Anita Brookner
I have been aware of a boredom, a restlessness, that no ordinary friendship can satisfy: only an extraordinary one.
~ Anita Brookner
Had she been more active, less reclusive, she would have gone out into the streets to lose herself in some sort of company, have made the pretext of buying an evening paper an opportunity to chat to the newsagent, but she rejected such stratagems, seeing them for what they were. It had been decreed that she was to be solitary, and somehow she had always known this. Once she had left her parents' house all friendships had seemed provisional; even marriage had not changed that.
~ Anita Brookner