Quotes About Companionship

They next faced the problem that confronted all young people in the city who wanted to continue in one another's company past a certain hour. During the day there were parks, and campuses, and restaurants, cafés. But at night, after dinner, unless one had access to a home where such things were safe and permitted, or had a car, there were few places to be alone.

it's possible to open our eyes, to see, to recognize our solitude—and at the same time to not be entirely alone.

Did not we vow that we would neither of us be either before or after the other even in travelling the last journey of life? And can you find it in your heart to leave me now?

I don't know why I thought of Dottie as my friend but I did. I believe she thought the same way about me although she really didn't like me. In those days, among the people I mixed with, one had friends almost by predestination. There they were, like your winter coat and your meagre luggage. You didn't think of discarding them just because you didn't altogether like them.

In those days, among the people I mixed with, one had friends almost by predestination. There they were, like your winter coat and your meagre luggage. You didn't think of discarding them just because you didn't altogether like them.

That odd alchemy of married love - passion, betrayal, fury, kindness, and companionship - lay there exposed between them.

If love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness, then he had loved Mikal since they were ten years old.... This almost-brother. This blood-love in everything but name.

The worst is being alone and not having someone with whom I can share life, someone who sees the world from the same narrow ledge I'm standing on and who understands without always having to be explained to.

That was Bold Heart? cried the shield maiden. That stupid bird told me he was the Bard, but I assumed he was lying. So many birds do. You can understand birds? said Pega… What's that one saying?... Thorgil listened. He's saying, 'I'm itchy. I'm itchy. I'm itchy.' And that one's saying, 'So am I. So am I. So am I.' The one on the beech tree is singing, 'Bird lice, bird lice, we've all got bird lice!' Knowing does kind of take the fun out of it, decided Pega.

Matt had to swallow hard to keep tears from forming. Fidelito had called him brother!

for I could no longer think of him as lord, viscount, duke's son; he was my comrade now

My help is in the mountain Where I take myself to heal … I find a rock with sun on it And a stream where the water runs gentle And the trees which one by one gives me company. So must I stay for a long time Until I have grown from the rock And the stream is running through me And I cannot tell myself from one tall tree. … My help is in the mountain That I take away with me. Collected in: Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature by Lorraine Anderson

I don't think I can do it alone, I said. I had a feeling the Summoning wasn't really meant to be cast alone: as if truth didn't mean anything without someone to share it with.

I don't have a very good idea of how people behave with their friends normally because I've never had one before. But, on the bright side, Orion hadn't either, so he didn't know any more than I did. So for lack of a better idea, we just went on being rude to each other, which was easy enough for me and a refreshing and new experience for him, in both directions.

I had a feeling the Summoning wasn't really meant to be cast alone: as if truth didn't mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone didn't come and listen.

I had people, in the plural, that I could ask to join me in the library, and even if they said no, they weren't really saying no, they were only saying not this time.

after supper Laurence would go to sit outside and read to him by the light of a lantern. He had never been a great reader himself, but Temeraire's pleasure in books was so great as to be infectious, and Laurence could not but think with satisfaction of the dragon's likely delight in the new book, which spoke in great detail about gemstones and their mining, despite his own complete lack of interest in the subject.

and if they were both outcast for the same reason, they might at least have the pleasure of each other's society for compensation.

I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on," Temeraire said. "I do not mind the deck.

But I don't think I can do it alone," I said. I had a feeling the Summoning wasn't really meant to be cast alone: as if truth didn't mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone didn't come and listen.

I'll come with you," Kasia said, and linked her arm in mine to support me: she could tell I needed the help, without a word said.

Apuré el último sorbo de café y ña contemplé en silencio unos instante. Pensé en lo mucho que deseaba refugiarme en aquella mirada huidiza que se temía transparente, vacía. Pensé en la soledad que iba a asaltarme aquella noche cuando me despidiece de ella, sin más trucos ni historias con que engañar su compañía. Pensé en lo poco que tenía que ofrecerle y en lo mucho que quería recibir de ella.

It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.

Even then my only friends were made of paper and ink.