Quotes About Companionship

Danny curses up a storm. And feels stupid. Because cursing in front of company at least generates an effect. Cursing alone is like taking a Hi-Liter to futility.

I have to rely on Laurie to know that I wish he had been with me the last time I was on the roof. I have to trust that he knows I'm glad that I stayed.

There are friends; but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with.

But it doesn't mean anything without someone beside him. It's not a game if he's the only one playing.

And what I want to tell him is that now I understand why people want to share a life with someone else. I see what all the fuss is about. It's not about sex or being in a couple when you hang out with other couples. It's not for ego or gratification or fear of loneliness. It's about this, whatever this is. -Rhiannon

Taylor is a boy, and you are my best friend. Taylor is a date, and you are my calendar. Understood?

The point of books was to combat loneliness

It's just much easier with dogs. You don't get laid; but you also don't get the feeling you're hurting their feelings all the time.

My confessions did nothing to alter this situation, but for the first time in my life I felt that somebody actually knew me. Three somebodies, to be exact. Two were roaming the highway in a Cadillac, doing God knows what with a CB radio, but the other was as close to me as my own skin, and I could now feel the undiluted pleasure of her company.

You know how mice are—anything for a little affection.

As we walk into the store, he confides that his biggest regret is that Melina never got to have sex, that he ruined all that by getting her spayed.

My Yiayiá was exactly the sort of friend I'd liked as an adult, someone with an endless supply of hard-luck stories and no desire to ever write a book.

The distance had been evaporated by humor

Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman.

Dogs know we need to give affection as much as they need to receive it. They were the first therapists; they've been in practice for thousands of years.

Life had not taught me to distrust ministers, but it had taught me to trust no one more than dogs.

Every world has dogs or their equivalent, creatures that thrive on companionship, creatures that are of a high order of intelligence although not the highest and that therefore is simple enough in their wants and needs to remain innocent. The combination of their innocence and their intelligence allows them to serve as a bridge bewtween what is transient and what is eternal, between the finate and the infinate.

I am no good alone. I need bonds, vows real if unspoken, shared laughter, and people who depend on me as I depend on them.

Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.

Dogs might love a place, as people do, but the only place they love beyond all others is the place where you are.

I had remained hopeful that, among the millions on this Earth, there might be a few who could summon the courage to know me for what I am and have the self-confidence to still walk part of this life with me.

We're fine together, just like this: Our silence protects us from ourselves

friends are like books you use them when you need them but u will always remember them

Animalele nu sunt lipsite de sentimente… Dac? n-aÈ™ avea lâng? mine ceva viu, care s? se miÈ™te, n-aÈ™ putea suporta singur?tatea.