Quotes About Companionship

The only thing better than taking a walk, just Tara and me, is taking a walk, Tara, Laurie, and me. They are my two loves, and living under the same roof as them, and sharing walks with them, make every day the best one of my life. The only obvious exceptions to that are the two days that the Giants beat the Patriots in the Super Bowls.

My guess is that over the years we've had 300 dogs in our house as pets.

In human relationships, those who do not love are rarely loved: those who will not be friends end up by having none. [p. 15 apud Thinking Strategically; on the "Intransigence strategy"]

Misery is too self-absorbed to want much company.

Oh Ducky!' said Johnny. 'Squeak to me!

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

Your friendgirl*?

If you hang with dogs, then of course you must get treated like dogs.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self, the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.

John tipped a finger at him and said, "Yep. Thanks for calling us, Drake. You're the kind of man a man wants when a man wants a man.

kittens will make your sad go away.

The kittens will make your sad go away." The

Quantunque degli esseri umani avessi un terrore mortale, sembravo assolutamente incapace di rinunciare alla loro compagnia. M'ingegnai a mantenere a fior di pelle un sorriso che non abbandonò le mie labbra un instante; fu questo l'accomodamento che offrivo alla gente.

Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.

No," he said slowly. "I am better than a husband. I am your friend.

He returned the smile and extended his arm. I slipped mine through his and we walked on in the warm sunshine, the smell of jasmine faint on the air as somewhere behind us trailed a ghost who whispered poetry in my ear and teased a breeze to touch my cheek.

When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.

You … You had always made the future feel safe. As long as you were in it too, beside me, I could be okay.

Grief is everywhere. It's its own being. It walks beside you silently, jumps out at you meanly; pokes you awake at night.

You knew me. You KNOW me. I can't imagine my life without you, without someone who knows me that well.

Sometimes you just have to hold each other's hands and walk through it all.

Loneliness is my worst enemy, but in the end he's usually my only real friend.

There is far, far more to being human than any of us can become on our own.