Quotes About Companionship

Brock was up front with him, cuddling Alexei's beloved dog, Harry

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

And so tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll get drunk together, here, tonight, in this place that death has come into...

How marvelous it is to know another person so completely

If one didn't have love, was it better, then, to be alone?

But that was where Penelope was going to be that evening, and that meant that was where Colin would have to be as well.

Especially as I was an old friend, or at least I was a person she had known for a long time, which after a certain point is almost the same thing...

LOVE IS A FOUR-LEGGED WORD.

I'm never lonely when I'm writing, because you live with the characters that are so alive in your mind. And you really see them and know them and get to be friends with them.

Yet, when we talked, when we were together, she seemed so familiar. Seemed to know who I was, where I was coming from. She knew me better than I knew myself, I think. She was easy to be with. And I wanted to be with her, like all the time.

I start to see that I surround myself with broken people; more broken than me. Ah, yes, let me count your cracks. Let's see, one hundred, two... yes, you'll do nicely. A cracked companion makes me look more whole, gives me something outside myself to care for. When I'm with whole, healed people I feel my own cracks, the shatters, the insanities of dislocation in myself.

Books are my friends, where it's okay to be silent, where you're not a freak if you don't want to get drunk, peel out in the parking lot, tip cows.

I didn't have a boyfriend. I had someone to watch horror movies with while my best friend was too sick with cancer.

A very wise dog woman once told me that dogs find owners, not the other way around. They pick you and they choose to stay with you. In that way, they are also giving you the end of their life. The deeper the bond, the harder it is to say good-bye. I know I'd rather have any amount of time with a dog I love and suffer the mourning than not have the time at all.

You come into this world alone and die alone, but there's a really long stretch in the middle that can be extraordinarily meaningful and even fun with the right people. And when it's not fun, they'll be with you, too.

The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity.

And I realized that, for this night at least, I didn't much care if anyone was the marrying kind or not - not even me. Who could tell? We none of us knew for sure WHAT kind we were, exactly, but as long as were the kind that could sit around eating together and having a lovely time, that was enough.

The needs and companionship of a bird provide a reason to get up in the morning. The value of this cannot be overestimated for older bird owners and single people who are on their own. Birds provide all the benefits of the humananimal bond, including lower blood pressure and reduced levels of stress.

I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.

If you fall, I'll pick you up, if not, I will lay down with you.

I'm as alone as that cat, much more alone because I know it and he doesn't.

Si te caes te levanto y sino me acuesto contigo

pero se le veía preocupado ya por la proximidad del final, algo que ocurre, según nos dijo, no cuando la edad te lo indica sino cuando los amigos empiezan a dejarte solo.

But I want you around even when I don't need you. —Jeremy Richards