Quotes of: Old-friend Keyword

I work mostly during the week, and on the weekend I get to hang out with friends, so it balances out pretty well.

Jimmy Bennett

Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.

Margaret Bourke-White

Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight.

Rita Ora

As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege.

Tommy Lee Jones

I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate.

Carre Otis

I am blessed beyond reason with women friends.

Jane Fonda

I do have a lot of female friends who are stand-ups and also women who are actresses and also happen to have an act.

Kate Flannery

Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.

Patrick Macnee

Chase grabbed Joey’s neck and hauled him into a kiss. Oh shit. Not again. It didn’t matter how many times it had been wrong, he still wanted to believe it. Wanted to believe it when he kissed a guy and everything inside said him. It had been wron...

Collision Course

Magnus rolled onto his back and put his feet up on the arm of the sofa. “What do you care if Alec’s miserable?” “What do I ?” Jace said, so loudly that Chairman Meow rolled off the couch and landed on the floor. “Of course I care about Al...

City of Heavenly Fire

Magnus rolled onto his back and put his feet up on the arm of the sofa. “What do you care if Alec’s miserable?” “What do I care?” Jace said, so loudly that Chairman Meow rolled off the couch and landed on the floor. “Of course I care abou...

City of Heavenly Fire

I continued to move my fingers across his skin exactly as I had before, but I needed to make a decision. I had reached for him, but I could back out of it by trailing my fingers down his arm and settling my hand in his, like I wanted us to be friends...

Dirty Little Secret

My mother has made choices in her life, as we all must, and she is at peace with them. I can see her peace. She did not cop out on herself. The benefits of her choices are massive-a long, stable marriage to a man she still calls her best friend; a fa...

Eat, Pray, Love

Do you think it is fair that guy will make more money doing the same job as you? Does it piss you off and scare you when you find out about your friends getting raped? Do you ever feel like shit about your body? Do you ever feel like something is weo...

Full Frontal Feminism

Love. He recoiled from the very idea. He knew all about love: love was following his best friend around school like a lost puppy, putting up with all manner of shit just to be near him. Love was sobbing himself to sleep night after endless night beca...

Four Chances: A Short Story Quartet

Runaways are romantic. The girls are waiflike with dyed ratty hair and baggy pants. They usually own a stray dog of the mutt variety and drag it along by a rope, plopping down in front of storefronts to beg for money from passersby. They're a mess. I...

Girl Walking Backwards

What is it with these people? They are more obsessed with me finding a girlfriend than I am. "He's concentrating on his studies," says Mum proudly. "Ah," says Mr Coles. "I should've done that, but at his age I was out on the town, living it up. Best ...

Half My Facebook Friends Are Ferrets

What our closest friends do for us is to teach us true selflessness. We learn that while it might be safer for them if we keep them out, true friendship means letting them in. We cannot decide for them what they are willing to suffer with us and for ...

Already There: Letting God Find You

Jace perched on the windowsill and looked down at him. "You really don't get this bodyguard thing, do you?" "I didn't even think you liked me all that much," said Simon. "Is this one of those keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer things?" "...

City of Fallen Angels

Blame your body. The whole biological purpose of existence is to mate, so from the time we hit puberty, our hormones are demanding us to couple up. Maybe it’s basic instinct to feel inadequate if you’re single." "That’s what sucks. There’s so...

Anatomy of a Single Girl

I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I do not grant my love without reason, nor to any chance passer-by who may wish to claim i...

Anthem