friends
Knowing I’ll never fully know anyone is what makes it feel like such a gift when someone lets me in, even a little. When they tell me the thing they didn’t post about. When they trust me with the part that doesn’t make a good story. When they let me see the mess behind the metaphor.
liv jarrell • you never really know anyone
I don’t really know what their lives feel like from the inside. I don’t know what they dream about when they’re quiet. What memories still hum at the edges of their minds. What private joys they carry in their pockets like lucky charms.
liv jarrell • you never really know anyone
You are like no one else I know, have ever met. My sole consolation—and it is a great one—is the realization of my life’s fortune in your friendship. For it is Fortune.
Daniel Mason • North Woods: A Novel
Come to me, her friend would say. Whenever Margaret looked at the empty space where her finger used to be, she couldn’t help but remember the wild insouciant girl who had thrown herself back into the mud. She remembered the way her friend’s hair had spread itself out on the clotted surface like a muddy, golden fan, and she remembered how happy she
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Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to process all our issues, to cope with differences and conflict while staying connected.
bell hooks • All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation Book 1)
friendship is the place in which a great majority of us have our first glimpse of redemptive love and caring community.