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"And this was your friend?' Cordelia raised her eyebrows. 'Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you."
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"Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse."
"Unfailing friends are essential, when 'presence' and 'absence' are wrangling in our daily living, and our presence is rampaged by murk and woe, while passion and lust for life are trampled. Reliable allies can shore us up and since we are our best ally, we first have got to make sure we get along well with ourselves. ("Being my best friend)."
"A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends."
"Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up."
"As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden language of laughter and silliness and girls that was, somehow, friendship."
"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
"Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never."
"How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing."
"Friends are the artists who paint happy lips on your face."
"Friends are the real superheroes. They battle our worst enemies-loneliness, grief, anxiety, depression, fear, and doubt-every time they come around."
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"It's a . . . transcendental act. Making life. . . . 'By this act, I bring one death into the world.' One birth, one death, and all the pain and acts of will between. . . . Our children change us . . . whether they live or not."
"Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart."
"That civet-jasmine blend you're wearing tonight absolutely clashes with the third-level formal style of your dress, you know."
"Lord X was a tyrant, not a revolutionary. He wanted to take over the system, not change it."
"Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you."
"Don't let fear swallow all your happiness. Don't forget to take joy.' Dag gulped. Both of their grounds were nearly closed. It was Arkady's voice alone that hinted how hard-bought this bit of wisdom might've been, yet the words had been nearly toneless."
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