#ip

The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#always #approach #characters #fiction #flexible

loving friendship is able to endure everything; it refuses no burden. ↗

— Francesco Petrarca

#love #friendship

That’s what I always wanted to know. Why would some fella be willing to do something generous for a kid he doesn’t even know?” Rodney asked. “Have to say I’m surprised, Mr. Burton. Of all the people on the face of the earth,” he said, his voice softening, “I figured if anyone knew the answer to that one, it’d be you. ↗

— Kenny Rogers

#friendship #generosity #friendship

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places. ↗

— A.C. Grayling

#principles #reason #age

There goes the world's wimpiest vampire. ↗

— Heather Swain

#friendship #humor #vampires-in-america #friendship

If you are building an army I should be your number one general,” –Lawrence Ottoise. ↗

— Ray Anyasi

#friendship

There is a miracle called Friendship that dwells within the heart and you don't know how it happens or when it even starts. But the happiness it brings you always gives a special lift and you realize that Friendship is God's most precious gift. ↗

— - Jean Kyler McManus

#friendship

It wasn't fair. I wanted to take her to friend court. I wanted to sue her. But I could see the faces of the jury when it was revealed that her mother had just died. Died. ↗

— Leila Howland

#friendship

The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery! ↗

— Meat Loaf

#day #ever #hip #i #me

I spoke a word in anger To one who was my friend, Like a knife it cut him deeply, A wound that was hard to mend. That word, so thoughtlessly uttered, I would we could both forget, But its echo lives and memory gives The recollection yet. How many hearts are broken, How many friends are lost By some unkind word spoken Before we count the cost! But a word or deed of kindness Will repay a hundredfold. For it echoes again in the hearts of men And carries a joy untold. ↗

— C.A. Lufburrow

#friendship #anger