“Remember who was there for you when you needed help.”
“If they left you in bad times, keep them away in good times.”
“I usually carry around a quiet little chamber in my mind in this life; in it I live an isolated, separated, happy life interested in and loving some person, an idea, a science, or an art. Because I linger much too much in this cosy little corner, I am stupid and strange with the world and people, and am always too clumsy to treat them as one should.”
“Let us love this distance which is thoroughly woven with friendship, since those who do not love each other are not separated”
“If you wish to win a man s heart, allow him to confute you.”
“She suddenly understood the thought experiments better based on this feeling, the uncanniness of someone you love being able to abruptly articulate a single feeling. Friendship, family, and romance breed a telepathy that comes from kinship.”
“Yes, it s Lila who makes writing difficult. My life forces me to imagine what hers would have been if what happened to me had happened to her, what use she would have made of my luck.”
“We have to pull out all the stops in welcoming the refugee and the immigrant, in getting to know those who live around us, in showing love to our neighbors. We can t afford to isolate people anymore. We can t afford to push folks to the fringes of our society.”
“…she had a dream, and in that dream Jesus came to her and said, ‘You are from the stars and you came here to heal the world,’ so she made her mom and dad change her name to Starla. I think it’s cosmically perfect, like her, and kind of fitting because her face is covered in a galaxy of freckles.”
“The fence is as strong now as it was the day we met. Barbed wire strewn between white picket fences and roughhewn poles.”
“Der Name klang immer noch so vertraut. Vermutlich hatte sie ihn öfter ausgesprochen, als den ihres Sohnes. Warum schlug ihr albernes Herz schneller? Hatte es schon vergessen, wie viel Schmerz diese Besucherin ihm bereitet hatte? Ihr Vater hatte recht. Das Herz war ein schwaches, wandelbares Ding, auf nichts als Liebe aus und nichts war verhängnisvoller, als es zu seinem Meister zu machen. Der Verstand musste der Meister sein. Er tröstete über Narrenheiten des Herzens hinweg, fand Spottlieder für die Liebe, verhöhnte sie als eine Laune der Natur, vergänglich wie Blüten. Warum nur folgte sie dennoch immer wieder ihrem Herzen?”
“Everyone is a friend of the strong, the only friend of a poor is himself. Stepping on the shoulders of the weak, the strong succeed in their futile attempt to touch the sky.”
“Friendship or Alliance is my greatest strength and has kept me alive to this day.”
“The reward of friendship is friendship itself.”
“He decided that Absolut vodka was his most dependable companion; the name itself evoked the kind of certainty he was looking for in life”
“A silence fell amid the three of them. It was not an entirely uncomfortable silence. In it they became friends.”
“Like branches on a tree, we all grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one.”