Quotes About Companionship

She had never been without a book for as long as she could remember. An only child never is.

I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.

We expect a great deal of each other - that our partner should be sexually appealing as well as a stable companion; an intellectual equal who will also be a good parent; someone with whom we are completely compatible, sharing a similar outlook, attitudes, values and pursuits who will remain solvent and never be boring - the perfect complement to how we imagine ourselves, or, more usually, would like to.

That friend

For me, being together, fellow souls joined in fear, was some comfort. For him, that was weakness. In taking his hand I was telling him what I had seen, and that was something he could not allow.

Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well.

They let the silence stand then . . . not uneasily, just taking a moment to breathe in time, to listen to the noises around them. How pleasant, Jane thought, to be silent for a few moments. Normally noise overtook her life—normally she sought it, finding silence solitary and confining—suffocating. But how pleasant to be silent with someone.

If you are a member of a big family, you always have someone at hand for golf, tennis, walks, movies. You never have to "find company," so to speak.

Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more.

I'd rather be in danger with you than be safe without you.

Misery loves company, but today . . . today misery wanted to be alone.

What is the use of money if one cannot use it to make one's friends comfortable?

Om jag finge dö vid ett öppet fönster en dag som den här. Fåglar i trädgården, porlande vatten och nån att lita på bredvid mig... Fåglarna och det andra kan man väl få... men vem skulle jag... ät lite tårta nu.

The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone.

When I read a book, I want you to be reading it at the same time. I want to know what would Amelia think of it. I want you to be mine. I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart, Amy.

Why do you keep coming?" she asked. "Because," he said. Click on this word , he thought, and you will find links to everything it means. Because you are my oldest friend. Because, once, when I was at my lowest, you saved me. Because I might have died without you or ended up in a children's psychiatric hospital. Because I owe you. Because, selfishly, I see a future where we make fantastic games together, if you can manage to get out of bed . "Because," he repeated.

Friendship," Marx said, "is kind of like having a Tamagotchi.

The most important thing is finding someone you wish to play with.

He knows she isn't perfect. She knows he definitely isn't perfect. They know there's no such thing as perfect.

The only love she inspires is the canine kind.

I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind that you hum without even knowing what it is or why you're humming it. The kind that you've always known.

Zweisamkeit' is the feeling of being alone even when you're with other people." Simon turned to

What I think you should consider...is the rarity of finding a playmate.

All I can say is . . . All I can say is we'll figure it out, I swear. When I read a book, I want you to be reading it at the same time. I want to know what would Amelia think of it. I want you to be mine. I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart, Amy.