Quotes About Companionship

He carries books everywhere he goes so he won't have to be bored by people.

We know what we need when we get it, Brock Stewart had once said. Elinor understood this to be true whenever she heard Jenny in the hallway, when she looked up from her work in the garden to see a light burning in the kitchen. She knew it when the kettle on the back burner of the stove whistled, when the back door opened and shut, when the house she lived in wasn't empty. She hadn't understood how alone she'd been until she was no longer alone. She had cut herself off...

A familiar is such a creature, an animal or bird that sees inside to the very soul of its human companion, and knows what others might not. What fears there might be, and what joys, for it shares the emotions of its human partner.

I'm old, Franny reminded him when she noticed his bleak expression. But it's still me in here. So be careful. Vincent laughed, then offered his arm so that Franny could link her arm through his.

To friendship," she agreed, although for the longest time they didn't let go of each other and she knew exactly what he was thinking—This must be fate—for that was what she was thinking as well.

Claire's dog and the cat Elv had rescued from the river had a strange alliance. When they thought no one was at home, they sat together on the couch by the window, peering out at the courtyard. As soon as the key turned in the door, they jumped off the couch so that no one would see their attachment. Dogs and cats had their secrets too.

I'd lived my whole life without a friend. I'd just have to remember how to do that again.

what she misses most is someone knowing she's alive

I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was alright.

Would you like to have a brother? By now Melek knew much of our language. I would like to have you, he told me. I laughed, but the laughter sounded sharp, like a rock against the both of us, or an arrow, one that could indeed pierce through flesh. I know I can't. So instead I'll have a brother.

he couldn't remember how it felt to live his life without his dog.

crows were more intelligent than most men, and more loyal, and that you could not choose them, they must choose you, they must come to you and once they did they would never leave you, at least not of their own accord.

I'm really happy that you're here." This is not an outright lie. No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

I guess I'm too selfish to travel well with other people, I told Anne later.

She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

Life is very different when you have a good friend. I've seen people without special friends, close friends. Other men, especially. For some reason men don't often make and keep friends. This is a real tragedy, I think, because in a way, without a tight male friend, you never really are able to see yourself.

She got a right to look over the world in whatever company she choose. Just cause I love her don't take away none of her rights.

Mientras pueda decir D-i-o-s, sabré que hay alguien conmigo.

Here us is, I thought, two old fools left over from love, keeping each other company under the stars.

because part of shaping ourselves is done by others; and a lot of our shaping comes from that one close friend who is something like us. It

Cause she the only one you ever love, she say, sides me.

Wherever you are, I will be happy as long as I'm with you." August 2009 Dear Reader: For twelve books, I've written about the types of evil men and women commit against their fellow human

So that's Richard, says Sally. So that's Mike, I say. Sally puts an arm around me and squeezes, then leans in close. Thank God for us, that's what I say. Thank God. And I mean it.

You will never be lonely with a book at your side