Quotes About Companionship

I see you, Yi-yi." She smiled. Everything she knew about love she'd learned from this pudgy, cranky, manic-depressive, binge-eating beast that had been her companion through hell and back, too many times to count. He alone had protected her, loved her, fought for her, taught her to believe that life was worth living, even if there was no one there to see you living it. "I see you, too, Shazam.

I wanted to walk beside this man for a long time, and to do that I'd have to be able to be completely myself.

And the lass?" Drustan asked carefully. Dageus's smile was icy. "She goes where I go." "Dageus—" "Say no more. If she doesn't go, I doona go." "I would protect her for you." "She goes where I go." "And if she doesn't wish to?" "She will.

Grief still kicked me awake in the morning, kept me company all day, and crawled into bed with me at night.

They would be together always. Soul mates. He would never be alone. Never get lost in madness, for she would never fail to find him and bring him back.

Grey had seen every ugly, petty, disgusting part of her and that's why he was her best friend.

Books were faithful and reliable. You could pack them up and put them in a box, run your hands over the spines, flip through their pages full of memories. They always came with you, wherever you went.

But until we are old ladies- a cypress age, a Sawtooth age- I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of love.

I'm not going anywhere," she told me that night. But until we are old ladies--a cypress age, a Sawtooth age--I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of love.

In the beginning, fifty hours sounded like a bleak ocean of time, more hours than Sawtooth wanted to spend with himself, let alone with another person. Now he needs the girl to sit and measure time with him, the way the neighbor woman needs her prescription mirror so that she doesn't forget her own face.

They greyhound whine with her, distressed by her distress. Sometimes, in a traitorous fugue, the dog forgot to be unhappy and ran off to chase purple butterflies or murder shrew-mice, or to piss a joyful stream onto the topiaries. But generally, if her mistress was crying, so was the puppy.

One of my favorite things: good conversation with good friends.

A good friend is someone who is there for me when i'm glad or sad...who I can laugh madly with or cry badly with.

Sharing the good and bad times with a lifelong friend made the business of living a lot more bearable.

Who will sit on the porch with him then?

Life's journey doesn't mean much without friends who love you to come along for the ride.

You can take my heart, but I can't let you take my dog.

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

A dog has got human eyes.

What's the secret to a long, happy marriage?" was essentially, "I married my best friend." Similarly, from those whose marriages did not succeed, I often heard, "Well, we were good at love, but we never learned how to be friends.

Patty Banas, eighty, is one of the experts who made a go of a first marriage when young, divorced, and then "got it right" in her very happy second marriage. She too had one straightforward recommendation: BE SURE THAT YOU'RE really good friends. That is the most important thing. All the romance and the bells and the whistles are all very nice, but it doesn't last. Be sure that you're very good friends.

I have this dream, she and I side by side in life, turning front to front in lovemaking, back to back in threat, protecting each other.

What do you know of love? It comes from being with someone, from facing life together! Life in its awfulness as well as its joy! You love a handsome face. Nothing more!

A good friend will come and bail you out of jail, but a best friend will be sitting next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'!