Always happens with men. They promise friendship. They promise to treat you as an equal. In the end, all they want is to possess you.
Having pretty much burned every bridge he crossed, our friendship was like a malfunction of his usually deficient people skills.
My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.
From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.
Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
One does not have to be Witted to know the companionship of a beast, and to know that the friendship of an animal is every bit as rich and complicated as that of a man or woman.
It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read friendship.
The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy.
Friendship evangelism' is the freedom to Agape others without an agenda (Young)." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]
If I wasn’t mated, and wasn’t straight, and you were a Mage, and we hadn’t made that pact for friendship’s sake, I would totally screw you.
Live in the present. Take care of the relationships in front of you now. Most friendships have a natural life, and when they've lived that out, you'll know.
When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.
Some gifts of friendship cannot be earned. They exist, beyond price, and we cannot hope to match up to them.
Better to leave with good memories than have the last ones be the embarrassing, smoking ruin of what once had been a fantastic friendship.
I guess after a certain age, things change and those things or people or friendships that happen in movies, just don't happen in real life.
The real hell of this," he told her, "is that you're going to get through it.
What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.
