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Quotes About Companionship

ends up sleeping in your bed.
~ Marian Keyes
All that I knew for sure is, I wanted to be as happy as possible for as long as I'd got, and my every second was so much better with Hugh than without him.
~ Marian Keyes
So when you're friends with someone that long they're in your corner.
~ Marian Keyes
It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.
~ Marilyn Monroe
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
~ Marilyn Monroe
It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.
~ Marilynne Robinson
It felt very good to have him walking beside her. Good like rest and quiet, like something you could live without but you needed anyway. That you had to learn how to miss, and then you'd never stop missing it.
~ Marilynne Robinson
He said, I'm glad to see you. Why? He laughed. Well, that's what people say sometimes. Besides, I AM glad to see you. They walked on like that, right past the store. She said, Why? He laughed again. You ask such interesting questions. And you don't answer 'em. He nodded. It felt very good to have him walking beside her. Good like rest and quiet, like something you could live without but you needed anyway. That you had to learn how to miss, and then you'd never stop missing it.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Doll may have been the loneliest woman in the world, and she was the loneliest child, and there they were, the two of them together, keeping each other warm in the rain.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Some dogs bite. So you keep them away from people. You can't just get rid of them, for being the way they are. And now and then you can be glad to have them around, to snarl the way a good dog never does.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Thank God for them all, of course, and for that strange interval, which was most of my life, when I read out of loneliness, and when bad company was much better than no company. You can love a bad book for its haplessness or pomposity or gall, if you have that starveling appetite for things human, which I devoutly hope you never will have. "The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
~ Marilynne Robinson
I remember once my father and my grandfather were sitting on the porch together, crackling and shelling black walnuts. They loved each other's company, when they weren't at each other's throats, which meant when they were silent, as they were that day.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Lila had no particular notion of what the word 'married' meant, except that there was an endless, pleasant joke between them that excluded everybody else and that all the rest of them were welcome to admire.
~ Marilynne Robinson
walking along beside him that night, along that rutted road, through that empty world—what a sweet strength I felt, in him, and in myself, and all around us.
~ Marilynne Robinson
You, she said. He laughed. Who else? She said, Nobody else in this world.
~ Marilynne Robinson
He imagined her sitting in that overstuffed chair in the evening lamplight, reading while he read, listening while he told her how long the days would be if he did not almost believe she was with him there.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Books are good company. Nothing is more human than a book.
~ Marilynne Robinson
If there was one thing she wished she could save from it all, it was the way it felt to walk along beside him.
~ Marilynne Robinson
But the child just lay against her, hoping to stay where she was, hoping the rain wouldn't end. Doll may have been the loneliest woman in the world, and she was the loneliest child, and there they were, the two of them together, keeping each other warm in the rain
~ Marilynne Robinson
Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family. Never forget that. If you had built up a wall of friendship you wouldn't have to ask me to help. - Don Corleone
~ Mario Puzo
Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family. Never forget that.
~ Mario Puzo
Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family. Never forget that. If you had built up a wall of friendships you wouldn't have to ask me to help.
~ Mario Puzo
La amistad lo es todo. La amistad vale más que el talento. Vale más que el Gobierno. La amistad vale casi tanto como la familia. Nunca lo olvides.
~ Mario Puzo
Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family. Never forget that.
~ Mario Puzo