Mark Twain and Male Friendship Quotes

“Do I want you to write to me? Indeed I do.... The others break my heart, but you will not. You a something divine in you that is not in other men. You have the touch that heals, not lacerates. And you know the secret places of our hearts... You have seen our whole voyage... [Y]ou see us not, chartless, adrift - derelicts.”
― Peter Messent, Mark Twain and Male Friendship: The Twichell, Howells, and Rogers Friendships