Murphy watched me thoughtfully for several empty seconds. Then she said, very gently, “You’re a good man, Harry.”I swallowed and bowed my head, made humble by the tone of her voice and the expression on...

Righteous moves,Invigorating spirits,Sharing believes, andEmpowering, just onelet’s you RISE, above all.

I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand…

I replayed the moment I first saw him at the picnic throughout our years together. As corny as it may sound, from the first glance we shared near the cake stand at the picnic, the...

Sometimes being a nice person is all about knowing when to be an asshole.

Some people you meet and they’re your friend for a day. Some you meet and you never really know at all. And then there are those who get caught inside your soul and stay there...

I’ts better with the right hand than with the wrong girl

Perfect love is perfectly patient.

Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.

When you part from your friend, you grieve not;For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, asthe mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

It was a gusty day, and from the windows of Caroline’s top-floor flat, only the sky was visible with its little hurrying clouds. It was a day when being indoors was meaningful, wasting an afternoon...

Once upon a time they was two girls,” I say. “one girl had black skin, one girl had white.”Mae Mobley look up at me. She listening.”Little colored girl say to little white girl, ‘How come...

And this was the end of my first friendship with one of that innumerable company of people who are foreigners in their own country, but who are in reality its finest sons….

A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

I love you, Tess,” he told me, tightening his arms around me as if he would never let go.He’d better not. We’d never let go of each other — not Jayden and me, and not...

If you are not careful, you can end up with many friends to do stuff with and to enjoy stuff with, but when it comes to sharing in the most intimate ways, is there anyone...

You are a headache.

I’ve noticed that the magic getting along with someone isn’t really magic. If you break it down, you can see how it happens. You say something a bit off-center and see if they react. If...

Those moments when everyone who used to give you a call to wish you a lovely day can’t do it coz they know it’s not necessary,even if they do,are you gonna tell them to come...

The better we become, the higher we climb. The higher we climb, the bigger our ego. The bigger the ego, the harder it is for us to look at others the same way we did...

We human beings glimpse lofty ideals, catch ourselves betraying them, and sink to suicidal despair–despair from which only the love of our friends can save us, since friends see in us those nobler qualities we...

F.R.I.E.N.D.Forever Ready in Every Needless Despair.

Geography and mileage mean nothing. Separate is a single word that covers all distances that aren’t together.

Friendship…is not something you learn in school,but if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship you really haven’t learned anything.

It is proper for people to have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely.

A true friend is a person who knows the darkest part of your life and still loves you.

I share my happiness and sorrowCos I know for once there will be no tomorrowIf I wish to live in your memoriesI too have to be there to share your worriesSpeak up to your friend,...

The ‘coons had enjoyed a real party, and my trashcan had been the piñata! They’d obviously indulged in an evening of feasting on our wares and then staggered off the property loaded up with our...

My friendships, they are a very strong part of my life, they are as light as gossamer but also they are as strong as steel. And I cannot throw them off, nor altogether do with...

Joshua to Angela: “Please, Angela, do it for me… and you never know you just might have fun.” She looked at him warily. “I find that highly doubtful, Josh.””Well how will you know unless you...

I’ve always thought the best relationships are those that are as happy and content in silence as they are in action […]

… I chanced upon these words from a letter by Van Gogh: “Like everyone else, I feel the need of family and friendship, affection and friendly intercourse. I am not made of iron, like a...

If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then a friend of my enemy, is my enemy.

I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two.

And then he says something like this … “I would die for you. But I won’t live for you.” Something like that. I think the idea is that every person has to live for his...

Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.

He will always be my Sir Galahad.

(So I heard the boom of my fathr’s rifle when he shot my best friend.) A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.(14)

it is as it is”. And yet, I am saying this to you. Because it is, as it is. Reality is rather painful than acceptable. And yet we have to live through it, try to...

Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth and euphoria puts you on a path to ruin.

(…) Las novias vienen y van, y quizás deberías tomar esto como su forma de mantenerte en su vida.

The difference between pushing my agenda or just living my life determines whether a listener feels like a target or a friend.

At some point along the winding, honeysuckle-lined road of their lives, the love of a child had transformed into the love of a young woman, and the two loves had both been so natural and...

If you value your relationship or friendship, your ego won’t stand in the way of a meaningful apology.

What that song? I ast. Sound low down dirty to me. Like what the preacher tells you its sin to hear. Not to mention sing.She hum a little more. Something come to me, she say....

True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past.

The risk of all friendship is, alas, a little grief.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as...