“Holding Eleanor s hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.”
“Give me that man that is not passion s slave, and I will wear him in my heart s core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.”
“I am always saying Glad to ve met you to somebody I m not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”
“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend s success.”
“A woman can become a man s friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.”
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
“The best mirror is an old friend.”
“Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren t you already there?”
“Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.”
“I need them and they need me to need them”
“We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.”
“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.”
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
“Strangers will show you the way But a true friend will escort you, to your destination. 1st November, 2006”