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“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
― Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.”
― Cynthia Hand, Hallowed

“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“All of us are lonely at some point or another, no matter how any people surround us. And then, we meet someone who seems to understand. She smiles, and for a moment the loneliness disappears.”
― Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni

“Sometimes men want what they don't have because they don't have it. Even if everyone offered to share, they would only want the share that wasn't theirs.”
― Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni

“Most idealists lived in their own impossible worlds, sealed away from reality; Maryam, it seemed, effortlessly reached out from hers and drew others inside.”
― Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni

“Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“Movements are born of critical connections rather than critical mass.”
― Grace Lee Boggs, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century